Accelerating Software Delivery

CD and Embedded – Another Note on this Topic

Our PM David Rosen, recently wrote an excellent blog on Continuous Delivery (CD) and its applicability to embedded technologies.  And it goes to the heart of what we hear often from our embedded prospects and customers – Can we really do CD? I understand the confusion and angst and would like to point the readers [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on May 20, 2013

Taming the Android Monster

A few weeks ago, we released our Android software delivery solution – which enables Android software teams build, test and release Android solutions more efficiently and faster. Since that release, we have had many discussions with Android development teams and our hypothesis of the need for such a “delivery solution” has  been spot on Indeed, [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on May 14, 2013

Can your engineering team deliver one product every week to the marketplace?

I recently read an excellent note on http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-announces-one-new-handset-per-week-how-many-is-too-many-7000014815/  The net-net “wow” of this article can be summed up in this one sentence “Between January and the end of April, the South Korean manufacturer announced an average of one new smartphone per week.” Now,  these devices are not simple to manufacture. They include high, mid range, and low end phones, tablets [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on May 10, 2013

Electric Cloud Helps Top Networking Vendor Go Green

In my 2 years at Electric Cloud I have talked to innumerable Dev and Ops prospects and customers – I thought I had heard it all. I pretty much knew all the use cases that drove teams to look for solutions like our: Faster application time-to–market Improved software quality Improved developer productivity Better development process [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on April 8, 2013

Everything you need to know about releasing Android products (Part 2)

In part 1, we described the dynamics of the Android market – the breakneck speed of innovation and the challenges faced in keeping up with this exponential growth. In this post, we discuss the challenges in greater detail. Android development and release teams are spending enormous amount of resources refining their processes to bring out [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on January 22, 2013

Everything you need to know about releasing Android products (part 1)

Here at Electric Cloud, we have been enabling software build, test, and release teams automate and accelerate their software delivery processes for many years. But lately, we have been getting lots of interest from device vendors–particularly Android device vendors – to improve the quality and speed of getting devices to market. In this blog series, [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on January 11, 2013

Pearls from our Annual Summit

We just finished our annual summit a couple of weeks ago. And it was a great opportunity to see our customers & prospects, talk to them about how they are using our solutions today and discuss their visions for the future. While I cannot discuss all the details due to confidentiality concerns, I thought I [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on November 6, 2012

Practice makes perfect

In the spirit of the Olympics, here’s to what makes true champions. Olympic athletes know the trick to absolutely error-free performance is practice.  Michael Phelps can out-swim the best of them, yet he practices every day to get ready for the big event. He practices the same stance, the same dive, the same strokes over and over again. [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on August 1, 2012

Do you know how to evaluate Devops?

This is part five of the five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation.  Driven by a confluence of business and technological trends, the move to DevOps will continue to gain traction. To keep pace with this momentum, it’s incumbent upon the development and operations [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on April 23, 2012

Three Reasons to Concentrate on Dev in a Well-Planned DevOps Strategy

This is part four of a five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation.  For all of the reasons we’ve been describing so far, it’s a good idea to start treating Dev and Ops as equally important participants in a single process. This means embracing [Read More →]

no comments | posted by on April 16, 2012