SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW
ENTERPRISE DEVOPS CLOUD SOLUTION
ELECTRIC CLOUD & VMWARE
AT A GLANCE
Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
Unlock the Cloud for Dev, Test and Ops
VMware ® vCloud ® Air™ is a
secure, dedicated hybrid cloud
service operated by VMware and
built on the trusted foundation of
VMware vSphere ® .
The service supports existing
workloads and third-party
applications as well as new
application development, giving IT
a common platform for seamlessly
extending its data center to the
cloud.
Electric Cloud® ElectricFlow® helps
software organizations deliver better
software faster by powering
Continuous Delivery. Often referred to
as the “new Agile,” Continuous
Delivery drives strategic value by
allowing more frequent, predictable
and higher quality software releases.
Continuous Delivery solutions from
Electric Cloud directly address the
reliability and risk issues inherent in
software releases by automating
build, test and deployment activities
to eliminate bottlenecks and provide
real-time visibility
“Electric Cloud and VMware have
allowed us to reduce our time to execute
development and IT infrastructure
processes from hours to minutes,
reduce environment set-up from weeks
to hours, and reduce our errors to
almost zero.”
Challenge
Developers are the kingmakers in today’s economy. With successful and
productive application development, the opportunities for any business are
tremendous. However IT organizations traditionally struggle with developers
and Ops prioritizing two completely different goals in the application delivery
value chain; speedy, iterative, frequent feature completion versus production
stability, uptime and costs.
To increase developer productivity, development teams are embracing Agile
development and automated continuous integration; Ops works to drive
down the unit cost of compute capacity and ensure high-availability with
server virtualization and the introduction of cloud services. DevOps and
Continuous Delivery blur the lines between Dev and Ops, giving teams
shared control and visibility into a larger and more important goal of
optimizing value delivery to end-users. Once instituted, these practices allow
for more reliable, predictable and dramatically faster application delivery.
Solution
VMware® and Electric Cloud address these challenges with a cloud solution
for enterprise DevOps and Continuous Delivery, managing the software
delivery process with an intuitive workflow automation solution that
orchestrates operations and coordinates handoffs between the various
Development, QA, and Operations teams. The solution leverages the
unlimited scale and agile infrastructure provided by VMware ® vCloud® Air™
while seamlessly orchestrating the resources needed to support the
development process using the capabilities of Electric Cloud ElectricFlow®.
The integration between Electric Cloud and VMware ensures that resources
are provisioned, configured, used and decommissioned on-demand,
improving cloud resource utilization and eliminating VM sprawl issues.
The solution solves problems of inefficient development environments, errorprone manual processes and one-off configurations, all while leveraging the
shared infrastructure benefits of cloud solutions. The net result is that
development teams can now get to market faster, with higher quality and
cost effective use of their compute infrastructure.
— Brian Lille, CIO, Equinix
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Dev/Test
Take a low-risk first step to hybrid cloud
and free up valuable on-premises
capacity by running pre-production in
the cloud, and then choosing to deploy
on- or off-premises.
New Enterprise Applications
Use hybrid cloud to build and host new
applications in traditional 3-tier
architectures.
Powered by Electric Cloud and vCloud Air, the solution automates and accelerates
end-to-end Continuous Delivery using hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Key Capabilities
Automated build-testdeployment process
workflows
From executing each build-test-deploy operation to
coordinating the handoffs among development teams,
individual workflow steps can be distributed across
multiple resources and processed in parallel. The fully
documented workflow ensures consistent process
execution and provides full visibility of the process and
its state to each stakeholder on the development
team.
Efficient resource
orchestration, configuration
and management
Orchestrating cloud resources within the development
process context (setting up, configuring, using),
Electric Cloud ensures that resources are used
effectively. Electric Cloud can manage vCloud Air as a
shared service to provide complete visibility into the
usage of resources by the development teams,
enabling IT to control, optimize, and proactively plan
resource consumption at a lower cost.
Integration with popular
tools and tool chains
Electric Cloud provides out-of-the-box interoperability with
the most commonly used development applications (such
as source control management, build tools, QA systems
and deployment technologies). These integrations let you
easily model your processes and create workflows that
take advantage of current tool investments and best
practices–which can be shared across the entire
enterprise. Electric Cloud software’s openness promotes
flexibility and reduces the risk of lock in.
Closed-loop reporting and
analytics
To further refine the software development workflow,
Electric Cloud has extensive reporting and management
capabilities to isolate issues quickly while providing
essential metrics on process runs, resource utilization, and
bottlenecks. Electric Cloud produces reports to help IT and
Development teams optimize their usage and improve
efficiency.
Integration Details
Electric Cloud supports the following
VMware solutions:
 VMware vCloud Air
 VMware vCloud Director 5.1
 VMware ESX 3.0.x, ESX/ESXi 3.5,
4.0, and 4.1
 VMware vCenter Server 2.5, 4.0,
and 4.1
Benefits
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Scalability and security
The Electric Cloud platform scales to support thousands of
users and concurrent jobs. Solution administrators can
configure fine-grained task, artifact, and resource-level
access controls to support highly controlled, secure
environments and processes.
Successful cloud
implementation
Seamless and out-of-the-box integration to cloud resources
ensures that operations can offer development teams an easy
path to cloud consumption, with minimal change to their regular
process and with nothing new to learn.
For more information, or to download a free trial copy of ElectricFlow, please
visit us at http://electric-cloud.com/downloads.
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