{"id":1928,"date":"2012-06-04T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=ffbbdfa51ba34807220dcc9e12ea0af7"},"modified":"2012-06-04T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:22:00","slug":"appcara-debuts-its-appstack-release-2-platform-a-dynamic-application-layer-above-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/appcara-debuts-its-appstack-release-2-platform-a-dynamic-application-layer-above-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Appcara Debuts Its AppStack Release 2 Platform, A Dynamic Application Layer Above the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Appcara, maker of cloud application lifecycle solutions, announced a major new version of its AppStack application and portability platform that helps enterprises and service providers accelerate complex applications into the cloud and deliver new application-based revenue sources. Incorporating a real time Dynamic Application Environment layer that eliminates the need for server templates or scripting, AppStack Release 2 changes the rules of cloud computing. With AppStack 2, enterprises and service providers gain exceptionally fast time-to-market for key business applications \u2013 maximizing time, knowledge and profitability. <\/span><\/p>\n

While cloud deployments are common for simple web apps, the $385 billion enterprise application market remains the province of on-premises data centers, in large part because IT staffs lack the tools required to truly govern VMware, Citrix, or other private and hybrid applications running on Amazon Web Services, Citrix CloudStack or VMware vCloud. While cloud app management solutions exist, they require deep technical knowledge of application stacks, and a lot of manual, error-prone effort to use.<\/p>\n

AppStack provides an advanced application layer above public and private clouds – to capture application components, configurations and dependencies in real-time in the industry\u2019s only dynamic Configuration Repository – thereby automating all aspects of the application lifecycle. By decoupling apps from low-level dependencies such as operating systems and machine images into its uniquely visual, intuitive, real time environment, AppStack 2 enables total application portability, even across different public clouds \u2013 for instance, from Amazon to Rackspace – as well as from public to private clouds. AppStack allows cloud computing to expand beyond simple, predefined workloads, and into the realm of serious enterprise applications \u2013 with a single pane of glass management interface, and eliminating vendor lock-in.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor a long time enterprises have been seeking to leverage cloud environments for more complex business applications and take advantage of the flexibility, faster time to market and markedly lower cost structures delivered by the cloud. AppStack\u2019s ability to capture and assemble these application graphically, in real-time, is something that\u2019s businesses can truly leverage for improved efficiency and faster time to market,\u201d said William Fellows<\/a>, analyst at 451 Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A major new capability in AppStack 2 is the App Marketplace functionality that connects application publishers and consumers and provides a platform to enable usage-based applications, so that:<\/p>\n