Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Computer Software
Founded	2002
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA
Key people	Steve Brodie (Chief Executive Officer) John Ousterhout (Founder) John Graham-Cumming (Founder)
Products	ElectricAccelerator ElectricFlow
Number of employees	100
Website	Electric-Cloud.com

Electric Cloud, Inc. is a privately held, DevOps optimization software company based in San Jose. The company provides DevOps Release Automation (DORA) solutions that simplify and accelerate the delivery of software updates to end-users. Their tools transform software release from a chore to a competitive advantage.

History

Electric Cloud was founded in April 29, 2002 by John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, and John Graham-Cumming. It released its first product, ElectricAccelerator, in November 2002.

On November 6, 2006, their second product, ElectricCommander, was released to automate and orchestrate development toolchains. In June 2014, ElectricCommander became the foundation for a new suite of continuous delivery solutions called ElectricFlow.

Electric Cloud is a private company, funded in part by US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and Siemens Venture Capital.

In 2014, Electric Cloud partnered with well-known author and DevOps specialist Gene Kim to co-found the DevOps Enterprise Summit. The conferenced focuses on agile, continuous delivery, and DevOps transformations within enterprise companies. The conference has been a tremendous success, selling out in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and has grown from 600 attendees in the first year to over 1300 in 2016.

Products

ElectricFlow is an enterprise-grade DevOps Release Automation platform that enables provisioning, build and release of multi-tiered applications. The model-driven approach to managing environments and applications enables teams to coordinate multiple pipelines and releases across hybrid infrastructure in a predictable and auditable way.
ElectricAccelerator accelerates software CI cycles (“builds and tests”) by safely parallelizing them across shared clusters of physical or cloud CPU’s.

Users

Electric Cloud products have been adopted by leading enterprise clients across every industry vertical, including General Motors, Qualcomm, Quicken Loans, Intel, E*Trade, CenturyLink, HPE, Lego, Cisco, Bose, Dolby, Sony, Shell Oil, Epic Games, Splunk, and SpaceX.

Awards

ElectricFlow ranked as leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation
ElectricFlow ranked as leader in the 2016 Forrester WAVE for Application Release Automation
ElectricFlow ranked as leader in the 2016-17 OVUM ODM (Decision Matrix) for DevOps Release Management
Electric Cloud has repeatedly been acknowledged on the SD Times 100 list, which is an annual list of the top innovators and leaders in the software development industry.^[1] Electric Cloud was on the SD Times Top 100 list in 2006,^[2] 2007,^[3] 2009,^[4] 2010,^[5] 2011,^[6] and 2012^[7]
HP AllianceONE 2011 Partner of the Year – Cloud Computing (ElectricCommander)^[8]
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Company - 2011 (software category)^[9]
Ranked 1,915 in Inc. 5000 - 2011^[10]
Red Herring 100 North America List Winner 2009^[11]

References

↑ "SD Times 100". SD Times. Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
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↑ "The 2007 SD Times 100: It’s a leader! It’s an influencer! It’s the SD Times 100!". SD Times. 2007-05-15.
↑ "The 2009 SD Times 100: 2009". SD Times. 2009-06-12.
↑ "The 2010 SD Times 100: A Noble Gathering of Leaders". SD Times. 2010-06-01.
↑ "The 2011 SD Times 100: They write the songs". SD Times. 2011-06-01.
↑ "The 2012 SD Times 100: A Software Development Superfecta". SD Times. 2012-06-01.
↑ "CMP Technology Announces Winners of the 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards". PRNewswire. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
↑ "Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 500" (PDF). Deloitte. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
↑ "Inc 5000". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
↑ "Electric Cloud Named to Red Herring 100 North America List". Bloomberg. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

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