Appcara Inc. (HQ) Info 1551 McCarthy Blvd. Ste 104 sales@appcara.com Milpitas, CA 95035, USA www.appcara.com

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Corporate Background Appcara is a leader in cloud application management solutions for companies of all sizes around the world. Appcara solutions are used by both Service Providers and directly by enterprises to provide simplified application services on top of their cloud computing environments. The company was created by a group of cloud computing experts in 2010 who previously built industry leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing technologies and services including the Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) cloud service, the Sun cloud (Qlayer), as well as managed service provider infrastructures for Equinix and cloud storage at Amplidata. Appcara brings together this team with a vision to remove the barriers involved in deploying and managing enterprise applications in the cloud. Appcara is privately held and is based in Silicon Valley with additional development centers in Singapore and Hong Kong. The Market Problem As Enterprises move more of their mission-critical applications to virtual and cloud computing environments, the need for solutions that simplify this process is becoming paramount. According to leading analyst firm IDC, enterprise applications will become a $67B industry by 2016. Deployment of multi-tiered business applications into the cloud, and then managing the lifecycle over the development, test, and production cycle not only requires a lot of time and advanced technical knowledge, but it is also a painfully manual and error-prone effort. For example, an IT manager could lose a day with repetitive and mundane deployment tasks for just one server: creating virtual servers, then connecting to install software packages, setting configuration parameters, firewalls, load balancers, storage, and many more. That doesn’t even get into the monitoring, event logging, and alerting requirements. To stand up all of the other servers required to run the databases, app servers, and webservers that are dependent on the first server, the team will need to repeat this time consuming process multiple times. Most solutions available today have focused on deploying simple application stacks, but not on the complexities of multi-tiered, multi-language application environments that are very common in the enterprise. Some companies have also turned to scripting to automate as much as possible, but that too requires a very specialized skill set and the scripts will need to be modified and managed individually. To help individuals and companies save days of unproductive time, Appcara is focused on automating and simplifying the cloud application deployment and management process so it is much faster and easier. With Appcara’s flagship product, AppStack, it is possible to deploy and manage applications in the cloud in just a few clicks.

 

 

Appcara Inc. (HQ) Info 1551 McCarthy Blvd. Ste 104 sales@appcara.com Milpitas, CA 95035, USA www.appcara.com

Copyright © 2013 Appcara. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. Appcara and the Appcara logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Appcara. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

Appcara’s Solution Appcara has created the AppStack cloud application platform to provide the most efficient solution for deploying and managing enterprise applications in public and private clouds. AppStack is based on a patent-pending data model driven architecture, that enables AppStack to automate many tasks that were previously manual. AppStack is designed for use in an ongoing manner to manage applications during their complete lifecycle - not just at the beginning. AppStack can be used by developers employing an agile DevOps methodology to accelerate products to market, by corporate end-users to perform self-service application provisioning, and by Service Providers to offer application services to their end-users.

AppStack is now offered in distinct editions, to fit the unique requirements of each market: • AppStack Service Provider Edition - designed specifically for Service Providers, with full scalability, multi-tenancy, customization and private labeling

• AppStack Enterprise Edition - designed for deployment on-premises within Enterprises for use with private and public clouds

• AppStack Express Edition - downloadable, simple to install single appliance version for use by Small and Medium size Enterprises (SME)

All AppStack Editions provide a core set of capabilities to make application deployment and management as easy as "point-and-click". This includes a simple to use AppStack Portal for end-users and for system administrators. The AppStack Portal includes an integrated Application Marketplace with pre-packaged applications in a wide variety of categories including CRM, Content Managers, Big Data, Databases, Developer Tools and Stacks and more. In addition, AppStack provides a self-service publishing capability to enable users to publish their own or ISV applications to the marketplace. Full revenue and usage tracking and reporting is built-in, to support both Service Provider billing as well as Enterprise chargeback models. A legacy server migration capability is provided to bring existing Windows or Linux servers into AppStack and enable them to be deployed and managed. All of this is built on a multi-cloud capability that supports a wide array of public clouds including Amazon Web Services, the Rackspace Cloud, the HP Cloud and the IBM Smart Cloud, as well as leading private cloud orchestration layers such as Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack), VMware vCloud Director (VCD), CA AppLogic, Eucalyptus, and IBM PureFlex Systems. Full information on AppStack and the various editions can be found at www.appcara.com .