What is AppLogic?

AppLogic is the first grid operating system that runs and scales existing web applications. It converts a set of commodity servers into a scalable grid that's easy to manage. With AppLogic, you can:

• Deploy existing web applications on a grid without changing any code
• Scale each application from a fraction of a server up to the whole grid
• Manage whole racks of servers easier than a single server today
• Handle hardware failures automatically without losing data
• Add or remove servers and storage without disrupting applications
• Manage all applications, servers and storage with just a browser

AppLogic does not require a SAN or other expensive hardware, and is open and vendor-neutral. It supports Linux and all popular open-source middleware including Apache, MySQL, JBoss and Ruby on Rails, so there is no learning curve.

What's so special about AppLogic?

AppLogic does for web applications what Apache does for web content. By separating the application from the datacenter infrastructure required to run it, AppLogic makes it possible to:

• Deploy the same web application on different grids
• Run multiple different web applications on the same server
• Scale a web application to multiple servers, up to the whole grid
• Manage applications and hardware easily

Just like the web servers made it possible to run web sites without owning a datacenter and servers, AppLogic makes it possible to run and scale web applications without the enormous expense of owning and operating scalable IT infrastructure. With AppLogic, you can host any web application on commodity servers rented on a month-to-month basis from your favorite hosting provider.

-- VladM - 22 May 2006