A couple of exciting updates and announcements related to Electric Cloud in the last weeks: At the HP Discover conference, we were named 2011 HP AllianceONE Innovative Partner of the Year in Cloud Computing – awarded for our proven, creative and unique ability to solve complex problems for our joint customers. We are obviously very [Read More →]

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 →]

In the last year I have increasingly run into a new character in application development shops – IT. IT is not taking over coding tasks, but they are certainly taking a much more active role regarding where application development tasks get run.   This is no surprise, as software development has an insatiable appetite for compute [Read More →]

I just came across a piece that Bernard Golden wrote in his CIO blog entitled Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right.   He makes a lot of good points including what we see the most successful enterprise development shops doing with the cloud; “Treat the cloud as an extension, not a separation.” Unfortunately, [Read More →]

Today we announced integrations and compatibility with public cloud computing – specifically Amazon EC2. Cloud computing is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. It provides an easy to deploy, cost-effective, scalable, on-demand computing infrastructure –very timely, given shrinking or frozen IT budgets. I can’t count the number of customers who tell me that [Read More →]