The Cloud Two-Step: How do you know what Dev/Test processes to run in the Cloud?

November 9, 2009 — Mike Maciag

I just came across a piece that Bernard Golden wrote in his CIO blog entitled Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right.   He makes a lot of good points including what we see the most successful enterprise development shops doing with the cloud; “Treat the cloud as an extension, not a separation.” 

Unfortunately, he does not point out what dev/test tools should be put up in the cloud but simply states “dev/test tasks,” as if it is obvious which ones to migrate.  Let’s see if we can leverage his work to figure which dev/test tasks are cloud-ready in two steps:
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Public Clouds

July 14, 2009 — martinvr

Today we announced integrations and compatibility with public cloud computing – specifically Amazon EC2. Cloud computing is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. It provides an easy to deploy, cost-effective, scalable, on-demand computing infrastructure –very timely, given shrinking or frozen IT budgets. I can’t count the number of customers who tell me that compute infrastructure is their #1 bottleneck. At Electric Cloud we have years of experience with internal or “private” clouds (after all, it’s in our name). We help customers set up private clouds, some with hundreds of machines, to accelerate and automate their software build and test tasks. It made sense for us to add public clouds to the mix. You can read the press release here.

Our customers gave us some interesting use cases for using our products in combination with the public cloud. Here are some of their ideas:
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