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For lines of businesses, the cost/value equation argues strongly for movement of applications to the cloud, i.e., Amazon EC2. In these economic times, the ability to convert capital investments to operational expenses is especially attractive - especially if it means that businesses can pay for only what they use. For many reasons, traditional approaches to virtualization run into a wall when it comes to moving applications to the cloud. AppZero ™ removes those obstacles - both for enterprises moving to the cloud and for providers of cloud services. AppZero makes it technically easy and economically beneficial for line of business leaders to get IT services that map to the financial models they need. Both enterprises moving to the cloud and providers of cloud services benefit: can easily experiment with moving applications to the cloud - and back again - with no cloud lock in. AppZero's OS-free VAAs are self-contained units that are completely portable - making them a risk-free on-ramp to and an exit from the cloud. can economically offer services that are further up the value stack than simple infrastructure capacity. Cloud providers want instant application provisioning that is as fast and easy to use as the machine provisioning enabled by server virtualization - with similar isolation benefits. The server density that AppZero enables produces economies of scale that deliver on the promise of virtualization - with great cost savings. What's wrong with traditional VA approaches in the cloud? Virtual appliances (VA) which package applications with just-enough-operating-system ( jeOS ) share some common attributes that limit their usefulness in general, and hobble them in the cloud. Most tool sets that create and maintain VAs in the cloud support only Linux, not Unix or Windows. This limitation leaves out a significant portion of the application universe. Even more limiting is the requirement of some tools to use their own flavor of Linux, which is a further complication. These attributes create generic shortcomings: - - - - Instant cloud: AppZero's VAA server-side application virtualization AppZero software creates, runs, and maintains VAAs in Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments - widening the universe of server applications that can be virtualized. If your application stack is based on Windows, VAA is the only way to move server-side applications to the cloud without breaking Microsoft's licensing. Applications are instantly deployed and provisioned, pre-configured in the self-contained VAA - with zero operating system, and making no changes to the OS on target machines. The attributes of AppZero's VAA approach to server-side application virtualization convey the following advantages in the cloud environment: - - - - - If you would like to discuss how AppZero can help your organization, please feel free to contact us at: info@appzero.com . You may also be interested in our white paper: Jumping on the Cloud Wagon? Pack your server applications for the trip .

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