Software Development and IT organizations are under extraordinary pressure to deliver better services and better software to their businesses — under ever-changing conditions — faster, with fewer people, and less money.

IT implements solutions to increase the efficiency of computing and storage services. They use virtualization to get more from their physical machines. They look for new ways to effectively assign workload to computing resources. These environments are private clouds — centralized compute resources located behind the firewall.

Meanwhile software development teams must provide a wide array of tools — from requirements definition through configuration management to build, test, deploy — to work in concert with their developers and processes.

Still, a no-man's-land exists between what IT provides and what developers must use to ship software. The virtual and physical machines that IT provides have no relation to the tools and processes that developers must lash together to build, test, and deploy high-quality software on time. As a result, developers and IT work separately — neither development efficiency nor machine utilization is maximized.

Electric Cloud is the development cloud company. Electric Cloud bridges the gap between physical and virtual IT environments and development processes and tools to create smart development clouds. The company's patented and award-winning products help development organizations to speed time to market, boost developer productivity, and improve software quality with flexible self-service tools that provide comprehensive management and reporting. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including semiconductors, enterprise IT, ISVs, mobile devices, and transactional websites rely on Electric Cloud's development cloud solutions.

The company is funded by top-tier venture firms Mayfield, U.S. Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.