Electric Cloud Integrates With VMware Lab Manager to Deliver Virtualized Build and Test Automation.Integrated Products Deliver Easy, Flexible, Self-Service Environment for the Software Development Tasks of Build, Test & Deploy MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- 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. [R], the leading provider of Software Production Management (SPM SPM - Sequential Parlog Machine ) solutions, today announced an integration with VMware Lab Manager. VMware is the leader in virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. software. Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander[TM] will be integrated with VMware Lab Manager to deliver dynamically provisioned virtual machines for the software build-test-deploy process. VMware Lab Manager automatically sets up and manages virtual machines and infrastructure, while ElectricCommander automates the software development processes that run on them. The integrated solutions will deliver a "push button" environment for software build, test, and deploy tasks using heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). tools in virtualized environments. This will translate to faster time to market, better software quality and higher productivity for development organizations as well as reduced IT infrastructure costs. "In recent research, we found that organizations reported an average reduction in their development and testing costs by as much as 50 percent per project through the use of virtualized solutions such as VMware Lab Manager," said Voke's Theresa Lanowitz. "And our research in the area of software production management shows that productivity was increased by as much as 12 times when using software production management tools. The combined value of these solutions is dramatic - every development organization should be addressing virtualized software production in their lifecycle strategy." Dynamic Provisioning of Virtual Resources, Processes and Scripts Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander is the industry's first enterprise-class solution for managing and automating the entire SPM process. The integration of ElectricCommander with VMware Lab Manager allows development organizations to easily provision virtual machine configurations across multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and automatically run the build, test, and deploy processes that were previously manual, disconnected, and resource-inefficient. Using the two products together, software development organizations can easily go from running developer builds and functional tests to kicking off the entire software production process across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. on the same hardware. VMware Lab Manager and ElectricCommander together create a "self-service" virtual lab that: * Dramatically reduces server sprawl through consolidation * Cuts the effort required to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. and run software build and test environments * Improves quality through frequent testing on all target environments and configurations * Reduces the provisioning burden on IT operations "Our integration with VMware Lab Manager will help software development and IT teams harness the power of the virtual lab to save time and improve development productivity," said Mike Maciag, 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. . "We have seen increasing demand from customers looking to take advantage of virtualization for software production. We're pleased to leverage VMware technology to deliver this strategic, tightly-integrated solution." "Through integration with VMware Lab Manager, Electric Cloud offers a highly differentiated solution that delivers compounded automation benefits to customers," said Dan Chu, Vice President of Emerging Markets at VMware. "The combined capabilities of ElectricCommander and VMware Lab Manager should not only reduce costs for software development organizations, but also accelerate time-to-delivery, which translates to significant competitive advantage." Electric Cloud will deliver the VMware Lab Manager integration as part of an ElectricCommander release available at the end of this year. For more information about ElectricCommander, please go to the Electric Cloud website at www.electriccloud.com/products/electriccommander.php. About VMware Lab Manager VMware Lab Manager is an image library management and automated provisioning The ability to set up new communications services for customers automatically. Carriers use automated provisioning to set up their network based on customers' requirements. Such systems control all network devices from a central console and greatly speed up deployment time from days to system for use with VMware Infrastructure. With VMware Lab Manager, IT organizations achieve significant savings through dramatically reduced server, storage and provisioning costs wherever server configurations are needed by users on an intermittent intermittent /in·ter·mit·tent/ (-mit´ent) marked by alternating periods of activity and inactivity. in·ter·mit·tent adj. 1. Stopping and starting at intervals. 2. basis including application development and testing, training, patch testing patch test Controlled application of biological or chemical substances to the skin to test for allergy. Small amounts of diluted test substances applied under a patch of cloth or soft paper and an impermeable membrane are left in place for 48 hours, and the skin reaction is , software demos and evaluations, offshoring
Offshoring describes the relocation of business processes from one country to another. and hosting. About Electric Cloud Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions. Electric Cloud solutions automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. , accelerate and analyze software build-test-deploy processes to optimize optimize - optimisation both physical and virtual IT environments. The company's patented and award-winning products help development organizations to speed time to market, boost developer productivity, and improve software quality. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including semiconductors, enterprise IT, ISVs, mobile devices, and transactional Web sites rely on Electric Cloud's Software Production Management solutions to transform software production from a liability to a competitive advantage. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com. Note to editors: Learn more about this integration during one of our upcoming web seminars (http://www.electric-cloud.com/news/events.php): Nov. 29 - Software Quality Engineering (11:00am PST/2:00pm EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy ) Dec. 5 - CM Crossroads (11:00am PST/2:00pm EST) Dec. 6 - Info World (11:00am PST/2:00pm EST) (c) 2003-2007 Electric Cloud, Inc. All rights reserved. Electric Cloud, ElectricInsight, ElectricAccelerator and Electric Make are trademarks of Electric Cloud. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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