Electric Cloud Named a Red Herring 100 Company; Award Recognizes 100 Private Companies in North America That Drive the Technology Industry's Future.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. , the software build infrastructure company, today announced that it has been named one of the Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: 100 Private Companies of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Five years after the dot-com bubble Refers to the late 1990s during which countless Internet companies were riding an enormous wave of enthusiasm that pushed their stock valuations into the stratosphere even though they never made a penny. burst, innovation and entrepreneurship is thriving in companies like Electric Cloud. All the companies on this list are proof," said Red Herring editor-in-chief Joel Dreyfuss. "We are honored to have been selected as a Red Herring 100 Private Company," 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 Chief Executive. "This award highlights the ever-present importance of improving software development; Electric Cloud is one of only a few companies that can offer significant new improvements in quality and time-to-market for software development organizations." Electric Cloud Accelerates Builds Electric Cloud 2.2 is for medium-to-large software development teams unhappy with ever-increasing build times. Electric Cloud 2.2 accelerates builds 10 - 20 times by distributing the software build in parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive, industry-standard servers. At the core of Electric Cloud 2.2 is Electric Make, which is compatible with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it can be rapidly deployed with little or no change to existing tools or environments. In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric Cloud has developed a patent-pending dependency management system that captures perfect dependency information by monitoring all files accessed during a build. Electric Cloud 2.2 records and re-uses build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance required to achieve and maintain build performance. Red Herring's lists of private companies are an important part of the magazine's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google and eBay were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors as those that would change the way we live and work. Red Herring's editorial staff rigorously evaluated more than 900 private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development. Red Herring 100 companies will be presenting their business model and strategy at the Red Herring Spring conference. Red Herring Spring will take place May 17-19 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. in Monterey, California For other uses, see Monterey (disambiguation). The City of Monterey is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in central California. As of 2005, the city population was 30,641. . About Electric Cloud Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering technologies that shorten time-to-market, increase productivity, and improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud addresses the build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares that every software development team endures. The company's products are in use by leading organizations in telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , automotive, software, networking and high-technology. Based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.S. Venture Partners and RRE RRE Red Rock Eater (News Service) RRE Road Race Engineering RRE Remote Roof Easy RRE Residential Real Estate RRE Rise-And-Run-Length Encoding RRE Royal Radar Establishment (Great Britain) Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com. About Red Herring Spring Red Herring Spring is an invitation-only event for CEOs, select senior executives, and Venture Capitalists Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. . Themed 'The Dynamics of Disruptions', Red Herring Spring 2005 will bring together executives from mostly private companies. These executives will be joined by senior executives from public companies and Venture Capitalists. Please contact Sean Raman at 650.428.2900 or email sraman@redherring.com if you would like to request an invitation to Red Herring Spring. About Red Herring Red Herring is the weekly magazine technology entrepreneurs, investors and industry observers read to stay ahead of the curve and to be better informed about the global marketplace. Red Herring covers technology, innovation, financial strategies, important personalities and trends that are transforming the world of business with unique insight, opinion and forward-looking analysis. Readers turn to Red Herring for knowledge to make strategic decisions, build companies and create a competitive advantage for their businesses. Red Herring articles, blogs, research and event information can be found online at www.redherring.com. |
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