Overview

AppLogic replaces expensive and difficult to integrate IT infrastructure such as firewalls, load balancers, servers and SANs with pre-integrated and pre-tested virtual appliances. Each appliance runs in its own virtual environment that boots it's own Linux OS and appears as a separate physical server to the software that runs inside the appliance.

AppLogic's catalog appliances are built using leading open-source infrastructure like Fedora Linux, Apache, MySQL, JBoss and many others. Users can modify catalog appliances or build their own appliances from scratch.

Infrastructure is assembled visually and stored as part of the application in AppLogic. The infrastructure is essentially disposable; it's instantiated on the grid when the application is run, maintained while needed, and disposed of when the application exits.

AppLogic packages all code, data and infrastructure required to run a scalable web application into a single logical entity that can be started, stopped, managed, copied or even exported to another grid without modifications. By managing all interdependencies within the application, AppLogic leaves the user with a single logical entity that is easier to manage than most desktop applications. AppLogic includes several popular open-source applications such as Bugzilla, Twiki, SugarCRM and Zimbra. These applications are pre-integrated and ready to run.

AppLogic aggregates commodity servers into a scalable grid that is managed as a single system using a browser or secure shell. You can add or remove servers on the fly, as the gird is running, monitor the hardware, manage user credentials, reboot servers, install software, build virtual appliances, backup the system, repair damaged storage volumes, inspect logs and perform all other management tasks from a single point of control, all while the system is running. With AppLogic, managing a 48-server grid and a 2-server grid takes approximately the same effort.