Build and Test in the Cloud

Solving Resourcing Challenges with Cloud Computing

Electric Cloud has brought its expertise in parallel processing and internal computing clouds for software production to the external cloud via Amazon EC2 ElectricCommander and ElectricAccelerator are validated to work seamlessly whether using in-house or external cloud computing resources. Development teams can run build and test procedures anytime, anywhere, whether on an in-house cloud made up of physical or virtual resources or in an external cloud.

Electric Cloud solutions help development teams to exploit the scalability advantages that the external cloud affords for software builds and tests while providing the security and manageability of an internal cloud. For example, ElectricCommander provides step-level parallelization, which can yield dramatic performance improvement when used with cloud resources (such as 5-10x faster tests cycles).

Cloud Computing  Challenge				Impact				Electric Cloud Solution
Testing spikes tax physical servers				Can't do as much testing as needed without costly hardware investment				ElectricCommander can dynamically provision resources from the cloud to meet peak testing loads
Security concerns limit use of external cloud resources				CSO or IT may resist using external clouds for mission-critical development processes				Enterprise-grade security measures (including fine-grained access controls, encryption, etc.) make using external resources safe
Large, monolithic processes can't take full advantage of cloud resources				Limited throughput				Step-level parallelization helps break down tests or builds into small component parts, each of which can be run in parallel for reduced cycle time