Electric Cloud Conquers 25 Year Problem in Software Development: Eliminates Nightly Builds; Electric Cloud's Software Build Accelerator Speeds Up Builds 10-20X.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2003 Electric Cloud Electric Cloud, Inc. is a privately held software corporation specializing in high-performance software build tools. Electric Cloud is based in Mountain View, California and currently offers two products. , the software build infrastructure company, today announced the commercial availability of the first software build accelerator accelerator: see particle accelerator. (1) A key combination such as Alt-G or Ctrl-Shift H that is used to activate a task. (2) An incubator that expects to develop the company considerably faster than normal. See incubator. in 25 years to dramatically speed software builds -- Electric Cloud 2.0. Electric Cloud 2.0 accelerates the build process in software development by ten to twenty times, virtually eliminating the typical long and overnight build process. Electric Cloud 2.0 is the first commercially available software build accelerator from the company. Electric Cloud 1.0 has been deployed in successful pilot projects in several large Silicon Valley technology firms in 2003. "Electric Cloud tackles the single most universally frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: and costly sticking point sticking point n. A point, issue, or situation that causes or is likely to cause an impasse. Noun 1. sticking point - a point at which an impasse arises in progress toward an agreement or a goal in software development today," said John Ousterhout (person) John Ousterhout - /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: john.ousterhout@scriptics.com. , Electric Cloud CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president. "With Electric Cloud, software development teams can now significantly reduce the time they waste waiting for builds to finish, and shorten (audio, compression) Shorten - A form of lossless audio compression. the overall development cycle. As it stands many builds can take over eight hours to complete. With Electric Cloud those hours literally shrink shrink Vox populi noun A psychiatrist to minutes." In one commercial application, Electric Cloud reduced a four and one half hour build to 13 minutes. To put the time savings in context, Ousterhout explains the huge impact that Electric Cloud can make to a software development organization. "If every engineer in a 100-person team can save only 1 hour per week with Electric Cloud, that organization will, conservatively, save $500,000 in productivity annually," Ousterhout said. "That's time better put to work fixing bugs or adding features." The Product Electric Cloud 2.0, an enterprise software product that runs on industry-standard hardware, is for medium-to-large software development teams unhappy with ever increasing build times. At the core of Electric Cloud 2.0 is Electric Make, which is plug-compatible plug-com·pat·i·ble adj. Capable of being connected peripherally to a computer without modification. Used of hardware. with existing Make-based build infrastructures, so it can be rapidly deployed with little or no change to existing tools or environments. Electric Cloud 2.0 accelerates builds 10-20 times by distributing the software build in parallel across clusters of inexpensive servers. It scales to accommodate additional servers for even more performance and throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. . In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric Cloud has developed a patent-pending dependency dependency In international relations, a weak state dominated by or under the jurisdiction of a more powerful state but not formally annexed by it. Examples include American Samoa (U.S.) and Greenland (Denmark). management system that captures perfect dependency information by monitoring all files accessed during a build. Electric Cloud 2.0 records and re-uses build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance required to achieve and maintain build performance. "Builds are an integral part of the software development process. In creating Electric Cloud 2.0 we wanted to ensure that our builds were not just fast, but 100 percent accurate," added Ousterhout. "Electric Cloud 2.0 eliminates build problems due to missing or incorrect dependencies, and that is invaluable to a development organization." Pricing Pricing for Electric Cloud 2.0 begins at $50,000 for a cluster with 10 CPUs. About Electric Cloud Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering technologies that improve the software development process. The Company was founded to address the build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares that every software development team endures. Electric Cloud makes products that development teams use to reduce costs, shorten time-to-market, and improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud 2.0 is currently being deployed at several of Silicon Valley's most widely recognized technology companies. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms Mayfield and U.S. Venture Partners. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at 650-968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com. |
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