Last month, we introduced our latest release of ElectricCommander; version 4.1. This release includes exciting enhancements to workflow, continuous integration management, and the plug-in library. Our primary goal with this release was to significantly improve the user experience in these key areas of the product. Many of the enhancements originated from feedback within our active [Read More →]
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 →]
This is part five 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. It’s a sad fact that in most enterprises, the process of building, testing, and deploying software is [Read More →]
This is part four 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. Even in the most rigid, hierarchical organizations, there’s a good chance that each software development team has [Read More →]
This is part three 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. There are many explanations why manually initiated, slow-running build-test-deploy procedures are much more likely to experience failures. [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 →]
A couple of interesting events related to our VMware partnership is coming up in very short due. First out is our joint VMware/Electric Cloud webinar tomorrow August 9th at 11.00am PST where Electric Cloud and VMware executives will discuss how you can enable Smart Development Clouds using Electric Cloud and VMware vCloud Director technologies. Registration [Read More →]
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 →]
Last Friday, Electric Cloud hosted a very successful open Lunch and Learn event at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown San Jose, CA. We had the pleasure to have one of our valued and quite recent new customers come present the story of their progress towards revolutionizing the overall software development process by the enablement of a [Read More →]
