Electric Cloud Releases Enhanced New Version of Leading Software Build Accelerator; Electric Cloud 2.2 Improves Throughput and Enhances Support for Centralized Build Clusters.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Electric Cloud, the software build infrastructure company, today announced the release of Electric Cloud 2.2 which improves build throughput and enhances support for centralized build clusters. Electric Cloud accelerates the software development build process by ten to twenty times by transforming inexpensive servers into parallel build clusters. The result is that Electric Cloud customers eliminate the universal build bottleneck, resulting in faster time to market, improved product quality and greater engineering productivity.

"Our customers are constantly innovating, increasing both product complexity as well as the breadth of their product lines. Their product build times are growing and they need to run literally thousands of builds every week," said John Graham-Cumming, Chief Scientist at Electric Cloud. "These companies require a solution that can speed builds and ensure that the software build process does not become the bottleneck in the development and release process. Not only is Electric Cloud many times faster than alternative solutions, it is much less expensive to deploy a centralized build cluster than the alternative of putting build-class machines on every engineer's desktop."

Electric Cloud 2.2 is designed with the needs of large enterprises in mind. In this new version Electric Cloud includes a scripting interface that ensures teams can automate repetitive tasks. Improved cluster security also allows administrators to configure a wide variety of access policies. Finally, new cluster sharing improves build throughput by as much as forty percent, meeting the needs of customers running hundreds or thousands of builds a week.

"We designed this release for the growing number of our customers who are deploying Electric Cloud across their enterprise," said John Ousterhout, Electric Cloud CEO and President. "The new and improved features in this release along with Electric Cloud's low cost of ownership add significantly to the benefits of faster time to market and improved quality that we bring to our customers."

The Product

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 software builds 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 minimal change to existing tools or build environments.

In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric Cloud has developed a patent-pending dependency management system that performs on-the-fly dependency analysis enabling maximum parallelism while always producing correct builds. It works with existing Make-based build infrastructures, so builds are dramatically faster using existing build scripts and tools.

New Features in Electric Cloud 2.2

Increased Control and Security

With Electric Cloud 2.2, administrators can configure Cluster access control policies. Administrators have the option to allow any user to access the cluster, or to only allow a set of approved users. Also, Electric Cloud Cluster Manager's failover has been certified against the Microsoft Cluster Services. If for some reason the Cluster Manager fails, the service will be automatically migrated to the backup system.

New Cluster Scripting Interface

Electric Cloud now offers a command-line interface to the cluster resources, in addition to its web-based User Interface. Scripting is critical to teams automating their build processes. Developers can now programmatically increase the priority of a running build, cancel a running build, or enable or disable agents in the cluster.

Improved Build Throughput

Engineering teams want builds to finish as fast as possible while also improving build throughput. In Electric Cloud 2.2, cluster sharing has been improved to more efficiently allocate agents to builds. There are periods during a build when there is only one remaining job. Electric Cloud now automatically detects these situations, and frees up unused resources so they can be allocated to other builds. Depending on the build environment, this can improve overall build throughput by as much as forty percent.

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, automotive, software, networking and high-technology. Based in Mountain View, California, Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.S. Venture Partners and RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at [phone] or www.electric-cloud.com.