Electric Cloud, Inc. was a privately held,
DevOps
DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (''Dev'') and IT operations (''Ops''). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary to ...
software company based in San Jose, CA. Founded in 2002, Electric Cloud was a provider of application release orchestration (ARO) tools, automating release pipelines and managing application life cycles. Electric Cloud's products included ElectricFlow and ElectricAccelerator.
In April 2019,
CloudBees
CloudBees is an enterprise software delivery company. Sacha Labourey and Francois Dechery co-founded the company in early 2010, and investors include Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HSBC, Verizon Ventures, Golub Capital, Goldma ...
acquired Electric Cloud and integrated Electric Cloud products into its own portfolio.
History
Electric Cloud was founded on April 29, 2002 by
John Ousterhout
John Kenneth Ousterhout (, born October 15, 1954) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley ...
, the creator of
Tcl
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* Texas Collegiate League, a collegiate baseball league
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, and
John Graham-Cumming
John Graham-Cumming is a British software engineer and writer best known for starting a successful petition to the Government of the United Kingdom asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing. , he serves as Chief Technology Offic ...
. In November 2002, Electric Cloud released its first product, ElectricAccelerator. In November 2006, ElectricCommander was released. In June 2014, ElectricCommander became the foundation for the orchestration platform called ElectricFlow.
In October 2014, Electric Cloud partnered with author and DevOps specialist
Gene Kim
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to co-found the DevOps Enterprise Summit.
The conferenced focuses on
agile,
continuous delivery
Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time and, following a pipeline through a "production-like environment", withou ...
, and DevOps transformations within enterprise companies.
In October 2017, Carmine Napolitano, formerly Electric Cloud's CFO, was appointed CEO.
In 2018, Electric Cloud received the highest scores for three out of three use cases as defined in Gartner’s 2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration.
Prior to its acquisition, Electric Cloud raised $64.6 million from US Venture Partners, Siemens Venture Capital,
Mayfield Fund
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Menlo Park ...
,
RRE Ventures
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, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and other investors.
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Acquisition by CloudBees
In April 2019,
CloudBees
CloudBees is an enterprise software delivery company. Sacha Labourey and Francois Dechery co-founded the company in early 2010, and investors include Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HSBC, Verizon Ventures, Golub Capital, Goldma ...
acquired Electric Cloud.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
See also
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Application release automation
Application-release automation (ARA) refers to the process of packaging and deploying an application or update of an application from development, across various environments, and ultimately to production. ARA solutions must combine the capabilitie ...
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BuildMaster
BuildMaster is an application release automation tool, designed by the software development team Inedo. It combines build management and ARA capabilities to manage and automate processes primarily related to continuous integration, database cha ...
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IncrediBuild
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Inedo
Inedo is a software product company with headquarters in Berea, Ohio. It that makes Enterprise DevOps tools, namely BuildMaster, ProGet, and Otter. Inedo also publishes software-related products, including Release! the Game, Programming Languages ...
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List of build automation software
Build automation involves Scripting language, scripting or automating the process of Compiler, compiling computer source code into binary code. Below is a list of notable tools associated with automating build processes.
Make-based
* make (softwa ...
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Multi-stage continuous integration
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XebiaLabs
XebiaLabs is an independent software company specializing in DevOps and continuous delivery for large enterprise organizations. The offers a DevOps Platform, for application-release automation (ARO). These components include release orchestration ...
References
Compiling tools
Software companies based in California
Software companies established in 2002
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
2002 establishments in California
Privately held companies based in California
Software companies of the United States