Over the past year that I have worked at Electric Cloud I have had to do many engagements that could be classed as DevOps focused. I have found these combined Dev & Ops customer interactions to have some key differences to those to the ones that are Dev focused (even the ones where Dev is “doing” deploying [Read More →]
Michael Dubakov at TargetProcess makes a great philosophical as well as technical case for where the craftsmanship of software development must head in 2011 and beyond, and I love it. Basically, it’s about doing the right things right, and fast. That may sound simple but I agree with Michael, on the top line it shouldn’t [Read More →]
Last week was the 2011 Electric Cloud Summit and we had a great turn out. It was a three day (1 day of training and 2 days of speakers) event at the Downtown San Jose Fairmont. The event by the numbers: 150+ registrants (50% increase from last year) 130+ participants Amazing presentations from companies including [Read More →]
Tom Mornini makes a strong case for PaaS in his article “DevOps is DoA” (http://www.zdnet.com/news/devops-is-doa/6308483) However, while PaaS solves some DevOps issues, it is definitely not the “NoOps” panacea for most R&D organizations out there. • Some enterprises look at their apps as their crown jewel IP and will never go to an externally hosted [Read More →]
This is part one of a five part series where we will present five distinct challenges that if left unaddressed will drastically reduce an organization’s ability to gain the benefits promised by a move to Agile development methods. Building, testing, and deploying software by hand is tedious and inefficient. There is little commonality and repeatability [Read More →]
Last week at VMworld our very own Martin Van Ryswyk gave a presentation with Equinix CIO, Brian Lillie, on creating an enterprise cloud. Click here to read his summary of the session.
What a week! 20,000 attendees and amazing sessions in hot (110°) in Las Vegas. VMworld was also a great show for us. • We had a wonderful booth and hundreds of VMworld attendees stopped by to learn more about our solution • We announced our integration with VMware vCLoud Director. See our press release here [Read More →]
A few days ago, we announced one of our many recent new ElectricCommander customers – FamilySearch. This is very exciting – the world’s largest genealogy organization powering their development cloud using ElectricCommander! Read all about this announcement here.
In his Modernizing IT column this week, Eric Knorr at InfoWorld explores “What cloud really means for developers.” He touches on a number of the key benefits to developing on the cloud: things like increased agility, managing geographically dispersed development teams, and the cloud’s ability to support the “bursty” nature of development. He also talks [Read More →]
Earlier this week, Electric Cloud proudly announced the release of ElectricCommander 3.10 – including some really exciting new functionality in the product with the marquee features being focused around more dynamic, efficient, reliable and exact resource usage. With this release, ElectricCommander takes yet another big leap towards being the only true platform flexible and reliable [Read More →]
