I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Mercury Rising | PBS: "Where's Googlization for the rest of us? It's called Appistry.
Appistry application fabrics take an application and spread it across tens, even hundreds of commodity processors. If you need more computing power, just add new nodes and the application will spread to them automatically, speeding up linearly as it does. If one or more nodes fail for any reason, they are simply ignored and the job continues minus those machines.
This is hot stuff and, talking with the St. Louis, Missouri-based company you'd think finding customers would be a breeze, but it wasn't at first. 'We've always been about commoditization and virtualizing lots of machines to one, but it is hard to get people to save 80 percent on something that wasn't broken,' said Appistry founder Bob Lozano, 'Potential customers kept saying, 'Help me fix this problem I can't solve,' instead. Where customers were willing to try us was on these large computational or large data-intensive apps -- tasks for which there was no minimally acceptable solution.'"
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