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April 30, 2012

CollabNet Turns To Enterprise Cloud Development With CloudForge

For the last 12 years, CollabNet has been working on something big. And now, it's making a formal rollout of that particular something in the form of CloudForge, a new cloud development system geared toward the enterprise market.

CloudForge joins CollabNet tools TeamForge and Subversion Edge in a bid to bring better quality cloud development and collaboration features to the market, and will do so by offering a wide variety of tools for enterprise-level cloud developers, including 99.9 percent server uptime, real-time notifications, user identity management for security, regularly scheduled automatic backups--as well as the option to perform snap backups as little as every ten minutes or store daily backups for 30 days--and ready integration with CollabNet's other available services.

With the entire information technology sector changing rapidly, and software development falling into a mix of Agile (News - Alert), DevOps and hybrid cloud practices, it's not surprising that software engineering needs to keep pace with these developments, and that's what CollabNet's CloudForge is out to do. CollabNet is even going so far as to launch a series of free webinars around the topic of enterprise cloud development, including an IDG TechCast and a series of online presentations. A free beta version of CloudForge is even out for potential users to try out and evaluate for themselves.

With studies--including a recent 2011 study from Saugatuck Technology--suggesting that three quarters of all companies will be doing at least some development in the cloud by 2012, and half of new software deployments going to the cloud, it's clear that cloud development tools are going to be extremely important in the years to come. With enterprises becoming truly global and allowing for increased amounts of telecommuting as well, getting access to talent all over the planet will also be important, and a clear and present need for cloud-based development so that branch offices aren't necessary everywhere the talent is available.

Cloud development, and accordingly, development-Platform-as-a-Service systems like CloudForge, will be of growing importance over the next few years. And for those who want to be ready for it, a system like CloudForge may well be a good bet for those wanting to be prepared.




Edited by Brooke Neuman
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