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Electric Cloud 2.1 Delivers Faster Builds and More Efficient Network Utilization
San Francisco, CA, August 2, 2004 — Electric Cloud,
the software build infrastructure company, today announced Electric
Cloud 2.1, which further speeds software builds and improves network
efficiency through support for multi-CPU machines in the build cluster,
peer-to-peer network communication and file compression. Electric
Cloud 2.1 accelerates the build process in software development
by ten to twenty times, virtually eliminating long software build
times resulting in greater engineering productivity, faster time
to market and improved product quality.
“While every other phase of the development process has
been accelerated by some type of new technology from rapid application
development tools to automated testing, the build process has been
largely overlooked,” said John Ousterhout, Electric Cloud
CEO and President. “This has resulted in a time to market
and productivity bottleneck surrounding builds that we have begun
to eradicate in the last year. With Electric Cloud 2.1 feedback
from some of the world’s leading software development organizations
has resulted in additional features that further decrease build
times and increase network efficiencies.”
The Product
Electric Cloud 2.1 is for medium-to-large software development teams
unhappy with ever-increasing build times. Electric Cloud 2.1 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 2.1 is Electric Make, which is plug-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 2.1 records and re-uses
build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance
required to achieve and maintain build performance.
New Features of Electric Cloud 2.1
Support for Multi-CPU Nodes
Electric Cloud 2.1 supports multi-CPU servers as nodes in the build
cluster. This allows customers to take advantage of better price-performance
multi-CPU machines and achieve higher performance with fewer physical
machines in the cluster resulting in easier hardware administration.
Peer-to-Peer Network Communication
Electric Cloud now supports peer-to-peer network communication which
increases Electric Cloud's scalability and speed by allowing build
nodes to obtain files directly from other build nodes in the cluster.
This reduces the need to transfer files over the network from the
machine that initiated the build which allows for configurations
with larger clusters of build nodes.
Network File Compression
To reduce network traffic and further speed builds, Electric Cloud 2.1
compresses files that are being transferred over the network. This
reduces Electric Cloud network traffic by 2 to 3 times, allowing for
greater network efficiency and build speed.
About Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering
technologies that improve the software development process. The
Company was founded to addresses 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 2.1 is currently being
deployed at several of Silicon Valley’s most widely recognized
technology companies. 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 (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.
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Electric Cloud and Electric Make are trademarks of Electric Cloud,
Inc. All other names are used for identification purposes only and
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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