Today, Electric Cloud jointly ran a very interesting webinar together with Eucalyptus titled “Quickly Deploying Dev and Test Resources with Private Development Clouds” – click here for an archived version. There was a lot of interest and a very interactive hour – 500+ registrants and lots of questions from the audience around topics such as [Read More →]
We’re keeping busy! This week we’ve been exhibiting at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas and the main takeaway was expected – Cloud Computing, Cloud Automation and Cloud Monitoring are the main buzzwords for IT professionals of today. The Green IT buzz with its cost saving message from a couple of years back is no longer [Read More →]
Yesterday was an interesting day at Electric Cloud Headquarters. We hosted a delegation from one of the 100 largest companies in the world, who visited our office in Sunnyvale with 25 or so CTO’s, CIO’s and key technical stakeholders from various divisions across the company, all interested in learning more about our Development Cloud story. [Read More →]
A critical piece that many R&D and software development organizations are still missing which stops them from making the transition to a Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud infrastructure to power their development and testing efforts is the level of automation that ties their individual processes, workitems, roles and compute resources together – that is workflow [Read More →]
Late last week our Engineering team cranked out two new public major releases – ElectricCommander 3.9 and ElectricAccelerator 5.4. Some very interesting and exciting updates in both products that our customers and users have asked for and that will allow us to expand our footprint even further – I encourage you to click on the [Read More →]
Why do some men use a razor every morning?
With Agile development methodologies becoming more and more established within the larger global enterprise R&D organizations across the world, (such as many if not all of those that we are working with on a day-to-day basis), these days I would say it’s more surprising learning about development teams NOT thinking about and using concepts such [Read More →]
The last mile of the software development process, deployment, is especially prone to being slow, brittle, and manual. Without automation, it is nearly impossible to take advantage of virtualized and cloud compute infrastructure. CM Crossroads asked me to write a piece on what we are seeing in our customer base and what to look for [Read More →]
Arthur Cole makes a great observation in a recent article: even a rudimentary cloud will fail to live up to its promises without a fair degree of automation. I agree. If your processes aren’t automated, it will be tough to transition your infrastructure into the cloud, be it private, public or hybrid.
Ran across another article about DevOps. Phil Odence talks about how Development and Operations teams are cozying up and how open source plays in the DevOps world. What I found more interesting was the discussion in comments about who really coined the term DevOps. It reminded me of a similar discussion on who coined the [Read More →]
