Electric Cloud now automatically detects these
situations , and frees up unused resources so they can be allocated to
other builds.com

Through innovative use of its ARX switches, Acopia provides to
RISS users a global namespace for both Windows and Unix environments
and the ability to migrate data between HP RISS and standard file
servers without application disruption or client configuration
changes.

Instead of coding lines in a troublesome makefile syntax, people could 'code' the steps of their build process using more friendly GUI dialog boxes, and could click to execute various steps in the build process.

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"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. Electric Cloud 2.2

Increased Control and Security

With Electric Cloud 2. There are periods during a build when there is only one
remaining job.

Builds are where source files are converted into executable software products.

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----Electric
Cloud , the software build infrastructure company, today announced the
release of Electric Cloud 2. Electric Cloud
accelerates the software development build process by ten to twenty
times by transforming inexpensive servers into parallel build
clusters. Improved
cluster security also allows administrators to configure a wide
variety of access policies.

New Cluster Scripting Interface

Electric Cloud now offers a command-line interface to the cluster
resources, in addition to its web-based User Interface.
The company's products are in use by leading organizations in
telecommunications , automotive, software, networking and
high-technology. Acopia is a trademark of Acopia
Networks .

Especially for individual programmers, these tools proved quite useful.

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"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.

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Scripting is
critical to teams automating their build processes.acopia.

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2 which improves build throughput and
enhances support for centralized build clusters. Developers can now
programmatically increase the priority of a running build, cancel a
running build, or enable or disable agents in the cluster.electric-cloud.

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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. 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.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. If for some reason the Cluster
Manager fails, the service will be automatically migrated to the
backup system.

Make programs decide whether source files need rebuilding based by using text Makefiles that contain dependency trees, and by comparing timestamps on source files and object files.

Build management systems try to go beyond simple build scripting tools, by providing more general software build models that involve some level of abstraction away from the details of software builds.

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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.
The products also provide non-disruptive data replication, migration,
and capacity balancing across multiple NAS devices, thereby reducing
management overhead and accelerating business workflow in the process.

The classic tool for automating software builds is the Unix 'make' program , which was invented around 1974 to reduce software build times for C programs on the new Unix operating system.

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2 is for medium-to-large software development
teams unhappy with ever-increasing build times .
Also, Electric Cloud Cluster Manager's failover has been certified
against the Microsoft Cluster Services. Depending on the build environment, this can improve
overall build throughput by as much as forty percent.

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

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.

Software builds are a core part of the software development lifecycle .

For example, a build system might provide a layer of abstraction above the traditional makefile layer , leading to platform-independent makefiles (or equivalents).

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"Together, the ARX and RISS deliver a unique solution for highly
scaleable file data archival and lifecycle management across the
global enterprise."
"We're excited about the opportunity to partner with a leading ILM
solutions provider to create new product capabilities in the market,"
said Brendon Howe, VP Marketing at Acopia.

For this kind of problem, build management _systems_ are required.

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"Acopia's products offer unique file access capability for
enterprise customers who are looking for innovative ways to manage
global file data," said Paul O'Brien, Director of ILM at HP.

The trend of developing software on personal computers under Windows played a big part in motivating the new generation of GUI-interface tools, since the Windows world was a GUI world, unlike previous decades of Unix systems.

This new generation of GUI-oriented tools helped people to interactively script and manage build processes using a GUI interface, rather than using traditional makefiles.

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"
Electric Cloud 2.

Acopia Networks Joins HP's Information Lifecycle Management Partner Program; Plans to Pursue Opportunities to Integrate Award-Winning Functionality with the HP

----Acopia Networks, the
innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking, today announced it has
joined HP's Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Partner's Program
to deliver ILM solutions based on the use of its ARX(TM) products with
HP's StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS).
Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at
http://www.

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In this new version Electric Cloud includes a scripting
interface that ensures teams can automate repetitive tasks. "A combined ARX/RISS
solution will offer unique capability for enterprises looking to
deploy state of the art adaptive enterprise infrastructure."

Acopia Networks

Acopia Networks is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking
products, a new class of file switches that uniquely solve the problem
of managing unstructured data in the global enterprise.

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At the core of Electric Cloud 2.

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The Product

Electric Cloud 2.2, cluster
sharing has been improved to more efficiently allocate agents to
builds. Venture Partners and
RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at
(650) 968-2950 or www.

Business Editors/Technology Editors

LOWELL, Mass.

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Administrators have the option to allow any
user to access the cluster, or to only allow a set of approved users. Electric
Cloud addresses the build related frustrations, delays and resource
scheduling nightmares that every software development team endures. The combined use of ARX switches with RISS will provide
enterprise customers with the ability to deploy highly scaleable RISS
archive solutions, with unprecedented accessibility to information,
for their existing global file data.

But build manager tools do not typically address the deeper problems of larger-scale builds that involve multiple languages, larger numbers of files and platforms and components, pervasive parallelism and distribution over remote machines, or other complex aspects of scalable builds.

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Improved Build Throughput

Engineering teams want builds to finish as fast as possible while
also improving build throughput.S. Acopia's
Adaptive Resources Switches (ARX) allow customers to improve
performance and better utilize existing file server infrastructure.

Beginning in the 1980s, integrated development environments (IDEs) began to do software builds of IDE 'project files' themselves, reducing the need for people to write traditional makefiles for software builds of IDE projects.

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Business Editors /High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. "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.2, administrators can configure Cluster
access control policies.

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.

However, makefiles are still very useful for software build operations that go beyond individual IDE projects, and so many modern IDEs generate external makefiles for IDE projects.

Some of the essential goals of a build manager tool are to provide a nicer GUI interface for people, to provide a more friendly way of specifying build process steps, and to provide additional functionality and interactive build management convenience through the interface.

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All other brands, products, or service names may be
trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are
associated.

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2 is designed with the needs of large enterprises
in mind.2
accelerates builds 10 -20 times by distributing software builds in
parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive, industry -standard
servers.

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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 .

New Features in Electric Cloud 2. In Electric Cloud 2.

Around the turn of the millenium (2000), a new generation of build manager tools began to emerge, as people tried to solve the still-present problem of software builds using interactive GUI interface technologies developed in the 1990s.

Or a build management system might abstract builds even further, by calculating and executing multiplatform build sequences for itself, in a totally automated way, thereby reducing the need for people to be involved in scripting their builds at all.

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Based in Mountain View, California, Electric Cloud is
funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.com

2005 Acopia Networks, Inc.

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"Our customers are constantly innovating, increasing both product
complexity as well as the breadth of their product lines.