AppZero

This virtual machine uses Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. Additional fees apply.

Who:

Enterprise IT tasked with moving existing server applications to newer, supported platforms. Systems Integrators (SI) supporting enterprise engagements.

Why:

With Windows Server 2003 approaching end of support (EOS) enterprise IT departments face increasing security and compliance risks. Traditional methods of modernizing applications - reinstalling, upgrading the machine or rebuilding - are orders of magnitude more complex, expensive and time consuming than migrating applications onto a new operating system. And, old-fashioned methods of migrating machines add no value when it comes to modernizing the infrastructure, leaving your security and compliance risks unchanged.

What:

With AppZero's "up level" app migration you can quickly and easily move your applications from old, bare metal machines running outdated versions of the Windows OS to any server, anywhere - cloud or datacenter- running newer operating systems such as Windows Server 2008 (R2) or Windows 2012. AppZero moves the applications in much less time than it would take to install them and lets you move that application onto a new operating system.

Simple, fast, no code changes and you can leave the old systems behind. AppZero migration can even move old 32-bit apps to 64-bit OS such as WS2012. If you’re moving to WS2012, you can get there in one step – no need to first upgrade to WS2008.

AppZero identifies, extracts, and moves enterprise Windows server applications without adding software on the source or production server, and with no changes to the application. Because AppZero moves just the applications, it is cloud independent, hypervisor agnostic, and perfectly suited for modernization of the OS and supporting infrastructure.

AppZero moves enterprise apps to the cloud. Automating on-boarding and deployment of server applications to private, public, and hybrid clouds, AppZero brings one-click appstore simplicity to Windows server applications. AppZero is the fastest and most flexible way to move workloads across clouds and datacenter servers, without re-engineering, re-installation, or lock-in. Taking an application-centric approach to moving Windows Server applications, AppZero uses application images rather than server or machine images. AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies in what it calls a “virtual application appliance” (VAA), without a virtual machine (VM). The result is application flexibility that is hypervisor-agnostic, cloud independent, and fast. For on-boarding server applications to any cloud or machine, AppZero is the market’s only cloud-independent, application on-boarding migrator. AppZero's application migrator automates extraction and movement of server-side applications in a fraction of the time required by other approaches –with no change to the application. First to market virtualizing server applications, AppZero also offers a Windows desktop version. AppZero holds 3 patents with more pending. This Virtual Machine is Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter containing Service Pack 2 of the AppZero 6.0 release.