MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Appcara, an innovator in cloud application management solutions, announced a new integrated appliance solution designed to simplify the complexities of deploying and managing applications in the cloud for small to medium enterprises (SMEs). The AppStack Express Appliance is the industry’s first turnkey cloud application platform that enables faster and simpler point-and-click management of those applications over their lifespan. It allows IT managers to quickly deploy and manage pre-packaged software applications into private and public clouds, with total app portability between them.
Sold exclusively by certified channel partners, the AppStack Express Appliance makes it easy for businesses of any size to get started in capturing the benefit of on-demand app deployment– without the need to hire specialist employees or consultants to make it happen. The appliance provides an integrated private cloud based on Citrix CloudPlatform™ and the Xen Hypervisor, plus the AppStack Express Edition packaged onto a compact 3U dual server chassis with integrated flash and hard disk storage. Through the integrated App Marketplace, the appliance allows IT managers to choose from over 85 packaged software applications and deploy them in minutes, saving IT time and costs and enabling them to move away from packaged software deploy, install and maintain cycles. App deployment to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud is also supported from the appliance. Appcara debuted the new AppStack Express Appliance today at Citrix Synergy™ Los Angeles in its booth #529.
“Cloud stacks can require complex, time consuming integration work that many SMEs can’t afford,” said Rajiv Shah, CEO at IMPEX Technologies. “While it’s still early in our deployments, we are seeing IT managers react to AppStack Express Appliance as a powerful way to free themselves from time-consuming tasks of integrating cloud components so they can focus on their application users.”
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AppStack software includes:
- AppStack Express software license, with support for app deployments in the integrated Citrix CloudPlatform cloud. AppStack is Citrix Ready® Cloud Verified.
- App deployments in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud
- Integrated Xen hypervisor virtualization layer
- AppStack 3U hardware appliance, with dual redundant, servers hosting AppStack, CloudPlatform and Xen Hypervisors with 20 integrated HDD and Flash disk drives for VM, database and file storage
The AppStack Express appliance incorporates AppStack’s patent-pending dynamic model-based approach that captures and defines important application states and components, such as the tiers they occupy, relationships and dependencies between components, and configuration parameters, and then automatically maintains these over time in a configuration repository. Its application portal captures changes in real-time. This approach automates the provisioning and maintenance of applications over time compared to server templates and scripts that more statically address basic app launching purposes.
“Our customers are leveraging AppStack on top of Citrix CloudPlatform to eliminate scripting,” said Sameer Dholakia, Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix. “In doing so, they immediately gain more productivity in provisioning and automated management of a library of internal applications. That is the type of time- and cost-saving gain that causes IT managers in organizations of all sizes to sit up and take notice.”
“Many businesses would benefit from the rapid provisioning and agile management capabilities enabled by a turnkey private cloud plus an integrated catalog of cloud applications,” said Paul Burns, President and Senior Analyst at Neovise. “Appcara’s appliance approach is a compelling solution in this space, and can help customers accelerate application deployments and lifecycle management tasks.”
Pricing and Availability
The AppStack Express Appliance will be available in Q2 2013 and is sold by certified resellers including IMPEX Technologies in the US along with other channel partners in EMEA and Asia Pacific. AppStack Express software for SMBs is also available for free trial download at www.appcara.com/trial.
About Appcara
Appcara’s vision is to enable the efficient application onramp for public and private clouds and portability across any clouds. The company was created by a group of cloud computing industry veterans in 2010 in Santa Clara, CA who previously built industry leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing services such as the Savvis Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), the Sun cloud, as well as leading service provider infrastructures at companies such as Equinix. The company provides the AppStack cloud application lifecycle agility and portability platform. For more information visit www.appcara.com or @appcara.
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