A Rose By Any Other Name...

...wouldn't sell out on Valentine's Day.

Names should stand for something.

There was a company called Trigence that had some fairly cool technology for encapsulating Solaris server applications without any OS. Very helpful for moving apps in datacenters and for moving between Solaris versions without rewrite or recompile.

But there's a big world outside of Solaris and a lot of action outside the datacenter. So we now have a tool set that is architected for the cloud, and at home in the datacenter, on physical and virtual servers—Solaris, Linux, and Windows.

New capabilities. New management. New strategy. And a clear vision for revolutionizing the provisioning of server applications in the cloud.

I thought the company deserved a name that caught the spirit of the revolution.  And while naming companies is not a fun job, as anyone who's ever done it knows, this one wasn't exactly rocket science:

It's all about server APPs.
Moving them.
From datacenter to cloud to cloud to datacenter...
With ZERO operating system, ZERO installation and configuration,
In time that approaches ZERO

You see what I mean? AppZero was right there waiting for us along with its sibling tagline:

Any App. Any Server. Any Time

So welcome to the AppZero revolution.  We'll be blogging at least once a week so if you've got a topic you'd like us to cover, send it over or give us a call.  And look for AppZero coming to a server near you soon.