Why AppZero?
AppZero cures what traditional installation breaks
The traditional installation problem that AppZero solves
When an application is installed onto a server, the act of installation and configuration creates dependencies that effectively weld that application to a specific server. The result is a de facto monolith that is difficult to update, maintain, or move.
Because changes to one aspect of the stack have unforeseen consequences for the whole, the process of making any change to an application's functionality or location is a labor-intensive, time-constrained IT process. In the meantime, the business waits.
AppZero's OS-free deployment is also install-free
Instead of performing complex installation and configuration operations on each server in a deployment, our customers install just once into a VAA. The VAA can then be distributed across all servers to all locations - on-premise, hosted, or in the cloud -and rolled into production in real-time or over time. Because a VAA contains only an application with its properties and files, it breaks the dependencies on any underlying hardware and OS environments.
A continuing state of benefit - migration
AppZero provides benefits long after the deployment. Unlike scripted solutions for initial deployment, a VAA allows file and configuration changes to be captured within the VAA as an application runs over time. By capturing this information, a VAA allows an application to be migrated to another machine in its current form.
After migration, the application continues to run with all of its information intact, maintaining its isolation from the underlying operating system. Migration can occur among operating systems that have entirely different configurations, which is useful when moving an application from the data center to the cloud, cloud to cloud, or from a production system to a disaster recovery site.
A short list of AppZero positives
- 100% application mobility (server to server - physical, virtual, or cloud)
- The only technology for virtualizing server applications without an OS
- Easy movement to any cloud with no cloud lock-in
- Performance that is 97% or more that of a native implementation
- Decrease in application lifecycle costs
- Much faster service to lines of business with improved time to market
A long list of AppZero benefits
AppZero's OS-free application virtualization software offers distinct advantages:
- AppZero remains the only solution for virtualizing server applications
- Quick, error-free deployment of applications (seconds, not hours or days)
- Package once, deploy often
- Frictionless moves among servers in any number of locations (physical, virtual, or cloud)
- Move applications to the cloud with no lock-in
- Reduced conflicts between applications and underlying OS
- Update, move, and manage applications as distinct units separate from servers
- Slash unplanned outages caused by improper configuration (analysts place at 80% causality)
- Insulate applications from changes caused by updates to the OS or other applications
- Easily use existing enterprise management solutions
- Speed time through development and QA to production
- Expect 100% application consistency during each deployment stage across the lifecycle
- Instant rollback of applications
- Turn recovery efforts into an orchestrated failover or a simple retrieval of a stored VAA (application in ready-to-run state)
- Extend high availability to all applications at almost no cost
- Migrate legacy applications to new and faster environments
- High performance because, unlike virtual appliances, VAAs do not introduce the overhead of OS
- Dramatically increase server utilization by running multiple VAAs on a single operating system and machine
- Reduce the number of OS to maintain and manage.
- Exploit virtualization of Windows applications without violating Microsoft licensing
- Painlessly demonstrate compliance because stored VAAs effectively self-document everything that an application requires to run
We welcome the opportunity to work with you to determine specifically the gains AppZero can bring to your organization. Please feel free to contact us at: info@appzero.com.
For a comparison between AppZero's VAAs and Hypervisors, click here. You may also be interested in our white paper: AppZero turbo-charges server consolidation.
