Continuous Delivery takes Agile to its logical conclusion with a way of working that ensures software is always ready to release. It does this by building upon and extending Agile, CI and DevOps practices and tools to transform the way software is delivered.
Organizations that want to adopt Continuous Delivery need frequent check-ins to be verified by automated builds and tests so teams can reduce risk, deploy more often, and detect problems early.
This talk will focus on the ElectricFlow DevOps automation platform, and the functionality it exposes to:
- Enable Devs to automate complex build and test processes to drive efficient predictability at scale
- Give Ops teams a way to eliminate manual and error-prone processes to safely deploy any applications anywhere, anytime.
- Any teams to securely plug-in the clouds and tools they care about to abstract out complexity and ensure process compliance
As Charles Darwin wisely stated
Not strongest, most intelligent that survives
One most adaptable to change survives & thrives
For us in the business & IT world
We have to sense what’s going on in the market
And respond quickly to our changing environment
Human evolution spanned eons
Now, if we look @@sa history of computing,
Evolution at occurred @ much faster paced
Decades from early punch cards & green screen MFs
To amazing PCs & Laptops of today
Mobile phone evolution has been even faster
Only a matter of years
From satellite phone bricks
To razor thin Apple & Android smartphones in all our pockets
And if you look at software today
It evolves in minutes
For leading edge companies
Adopting DevOps & Continuous Delivery
Many updating their software continuously
Even deploying to production many times an hour
At this pace, we are really looking at a revolution
It’s a software-powered revolution
Where the “fittest” are those who deliver software innovation the fastest
These “alphas” can rapidly adapt to market needs & opportunities
And disrupt & dominate their target markets
Good morning. It’s a real pleasure to be here at this awards event presenting to you today.
I’d like take this time to introduce you to Electric Cloud and will start my presentation with some interesting Electric Cloud stats.
First, we have over 10 years of experience helping customers deliver better software faster, across many different market segments.
Second, we have over 120 employees in the company which is an increase of 20% year over year.
We have over 200 customers in over 250 locations worldwide (over 60 in the F500)
In May 2014 we raised our Series E which was for $12M with Mayfield, USVP, Rembrandt, RRE, and Siemens. It was an oversubscribed round as we were looking to raise just $10M. It came in two traunches (8 and 4).
Very strong management team. Steve Brodie our CEO is a 25 year industry veteran in the enterprise software industry, specifically in the software tools space, who joined the company just over a year ago from Serena where he was Group VP and GM of their ALM business. Prior to that was an executive at Mercury, Skytap and IBM Rational.
Our CMO, Jim Ensell, joined the company just over 6 months ago from CollabNet, a $50M company in the ALM space, where I was the CMO and CSO for 5 and half years. Prior to that I held a number of executive positions in public and private companies including Cadence, Virage Logic, and eSilicon.
Anders, our CTO, is an MIT grad with almost 20 years of enterprise SW experience.
Steve V is another 20 year veteran who joined us from Grass Valley group and prior to that Composite SW where he was CFO.
Christian Nall has over 20 years of sales leadership experience, most recently at Composite software. He started his career at IBM
RJ joined us from Serena as well where he was VP of Products and Engineering and was responsible for spearheading the company’s entry into DevOps
Prathap Dendi is a 15 year veteran of IBM where he was a Business Development executive who played a key role in growing IBM's Service Oriented Architecture platform through strategic partnerships with companies such as CapGemini, Accenture, Deloitte and Infosys.
What does model driven automation mean
It means that we model the
“what” - the application and its components
Where – the environments where the application is deployed
How – the process/workflow of deploying the application to the various environments
We have a graphical interface to model the app, env and workflow – it is very intuitive to create these models
Finally, we also provide visibility into the application deployment process.
History - Details of what happened during the deployments
Reports – Trending data of the application and for such data as failures vs success over time
Pipeline – where is the application (the environment) in the release process
Our focus with DE is to provide seamless integration of leading cloud platforms and configuration mgmt tools into everyday deploy automation