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How AppLogic Works


Running web applications on grids

AppLogic replaces infrastructure hardware such as firewalls, load balancers, network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN) and others with disposable infrastructure components that are implemented entirely in software and run on the grid as an integral part of each application. This makes it easy to deploy and scale N-tier applications, and makes the applications thelselves hardware-independent.

Disposable infrastructure

AppLogic uses advanced virtualization technologies to create disposable infrastructure out of existing operating systems and middleware. For example, with AppLogic you can build a database appliance by combining your favorite Linux distro and database engine. The resulting appliance is easy to instantiate, configure and assemble with other such appliances wherever a database is needed.

Multi-tenant deployment

AppLogic enables multi-tenant deployment of existing web applications without expensive re-engineering. This is achieved by running multiple instances of the application on the same grid and scaling each individual instance as required, from a fraction of a server up to dozens of servers. As a result, most applications can be deployed as online services within a week or two.

System management

AppLogic simplifies datacenter management. It does this by combining servers into a larger system called grid, and allowing you to manage the whole grid as one. With AppLogic, all servers, storage, applications and users are managed from a single, browser-based management console. AppLogic also comes with a scriptable command-line interface that makes it easy to provision applications and scale them on the fly with a script.

-- VladM - 22 May 2006

 
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