St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) December 15, 2008 -- Appistry, a leading provider of cloud application platforms, is hosting the third in a series of webinars on Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. PST entitled, "Unlock the Power of the Cloud for Application Development." Appistry will discuss opportunities and challenges application developers face when deciding to venture into cloud computing utilization. Appistry will provide insight into how developers can:

• integrate cloud environments into the development process to shorten test and deployment times;
• "cloud-enable" applications so they can easily scale in a cloud environment and become more fault-tolerant;
• choose the right cloud deployment model for the application and organization, whether public, private or hybrid.

The link for webinar registration is available at: http://www.appistry.com/go/webinar/701400000005IFo

The lead speakers at the event will be Guerry Semones, for Appistry and Ian Knox, for Skytap.Semones is a lead product manager for Appistry, an expert on application development for the cloud and blogs at http://www.appistry.com/blogs/guerry. Knox is an expert on cloud computing and virtual lab management and is the director of product management for Skytap and previously group product manager for Microsoft Visual Studio.

About Appistry
Appistry simplifies cloud computing for the enterprise, opening the door to a more agile and scalable IT environment. Appistry's application platform addresses the complex challenges of building, deploying and managing a wide variety of applications and services for both public and private clouds. Appistry's products are designed specifically for cloud environments, delivering transparent scalability, application-level fault tolerance, and automated management to new and existing applications. Appistry customers include FedEx, GeoEye, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. For more information about Appistry, please visit www.appistry.com.

About Skytap, Inc.
Skytap is the leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions that enable rapid development, testing, and deployment of applications in a 100% on-demand 'virtual data center'. Skytap provides self-service provisioning of virtual environments, a powerful web-based lab management application and support for existing applications to run unchanged in the cloud.

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