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Team to Deliver Industry's First Grid-Enabled Software Build Accelerator
Electric Cloud, leading provider of software build solutions, and Platform Computing, the global leader for grid computing solutions, today announced the development of an integration between Electric Cloud's software build acceleration product, ElectricAccelerator, with Platform Computing's LSF family of products. This partnership creates the industry's only software build solution that enables customers to save time and optimize resources by leveraging the power of grid technology. This is the first time engineering teams will be able to harness the computing power of grid computing to accelerate software build tasks. 
"Software development organizations are increasingly harnessing the power of grid computing to get products to market faster and to improve development productivity," said Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud. "We are pleased to be working with Platform Computing to enable LSF clusters to add critical value to development organizations by speeding production tasks such as building, packaging, testing, and deploying software by more than 10x." "Our partnership with Electric Cloud is another milestone in our efforts to expand our support to our valued customers," said Simon Lonsdale, Director of Strategic Alliances, Platform. "Through the Platform Alliance Network, Platform leads the industry in grid-enabling ISV's and technology partners IT systems and applications serving engineering, finance, oil and gas, life sciences, government, electronics, education, and industrial manufacturing. Our partnership with Electric Cloud is a natural fit for Platform Computing and the integration provides additional value to our customers." The integration between Platform Computing and Electric Cloud will significantly reduce the time it takes customers to build software, while providing an unparalled level of flexibility and efficiency. The integrated solution will equip software development organizations with the power to leverage as many (or as few) computing resources as required to speed software production, allowing for more efficient sharing of IT resources. The approach is advantageous because resources can be shared between ElectricAccelerator clusters or between an ElectricAccelerator cluster and other applications; a key factor for companies that want to build applications in parallel fashion from anywhere in the world. Electric Cloud helps organizations to break the build bottleneck in order to improve engineering productivity and gain control over the development process. Only Electric Cloud has the software tools to reduce build times by as much as 20x, make full and incremental builds reliable, and provide the visibility and agility companies need to continuously improve build environments.
"Software development organizations are increasingly harnessing the power of grid computing to get products to market faster and to improve development productivity," said Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud. "We are pleased to be working with Platform Computing to enable LSF clusters to add critical value to development organizations by speeding production tasks such as building, packaging, testing, and deploying software by more than 10x." "Our partnership with Electric Cloud is another milestone in our efforts to expand our support to our valued customers," said Simon Lonsdale, Director of Strategic Alliances, Platform. "Through the Platform Alliance Network, Platform leads the industry in grid-enabling ISV's and technology partners IT systems and applications serving engineering, finance, oil and gas, life sciences, government, electronics, education, and industrial manufacturing. Our partnership with Electric Cloud is a natural fit for Platform Computing and the integration provides additional value to our customers." The integration between Platform Computing and Electric Cloud will significantly reduce the time it takes customers to build software, while providing an unparalled level of flexibility and efficiency. The integrated solution will equip software development organizations with the power to leverage as many (or as few) computing resources as required to speed software production, allowing for more efficient sharing of IT resources. The approach is advantageous because resources can be shared between ElectricAccelerator clusters or between an ElectricAccelerator cluster and other applications; a key factor for companies that want to build applications in parallel fashion from anywhere in the world. Electric Cloud helps organizations to break the build bottleneck in order to improve engineering productivity and gain control over the development process. Only Electric Cloud has the software tools to reduce build times by as much as 20x, make full and incremental builds reliable, and provide the visibility and agility companies need to continuously improve build environments.