CollabNet has announced the launch of CollabNet CUBiT 2.0. This announcement is positioned as a demonstration of the company’s efforts to deliver on its mission to help software teams to simplify, collaborate and innovate more efficiently at a lower cost.

The CUBiT 2.0 is designed to virtually eliminate the time intensive process of configuring servers for build and test by managing those configurations as ‘profiles’ across the application lifecycle.

 

CollabNet CUBiT 2.0 applies the cloud computing model to distributed development and thus enables teams to access on-demand servers from private corporate data centers or public clouds, to significantly reduce development cycles and hardware expenses.

 

CUBiT is available in response to the challenges that developers face in configuring servers and aligning the software stacks throughout the application lifecycle. This is an arduous and time-consuming task for server-intensive methodologies such as agile, scrum and continuous integration.

By enabling code, build and test teams to accelerate development cycles, eliminate build and test errors, and gain flexibility in utilizing machines, CUBiT relieves these pain points.

This new solution also offers a self-service dynamic provisioning capability that automates labor-intensive server provisioning and configuration that can take weeks to complete. One financial services customer was able to decrease their time to build by 400 percent – from months to days.

           

Cloud computing, according to The 451 Group (News - Alert), is “a service model that combines a general organizing principle for IT delivery, infrastructure components, an architectural approach and an economic model - basically, a confluence of grid computing, virtualization, utility computing, hosting and software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)).”

With CUBiT 2.0, teams have the ability to group and manage their computing resources as clouds, enabling development teams to access a global pool of on-demand build and test services.

Teams can also manage their own library of software profits and quickly apply a configuration onto a machine and version control the profile throughout development, build, and QA.

In CUBiT, clouds are groups of server pools from a corporate data center or public clouds such as Amazon EC2. This public cloud was initially supported by CUBiT 2.0 and can be used to extend resources temporarily and at a very low cost. 

"CollabNet CUBiT reduces Ford's testing cycles by up to 50%. Because CUBiT virtualizes our test environment and manages ever-changing configurations, our release cycles have gone from 4-6 weeks to 1 week," said Marc Fecker, Director of Technology at FordDirect, in a Monday statement.

 

"CUBiT is critical because it enables our internal and external QA team worldwide to securely manage and track standardized sets of build and test services.  We not only have complete traceability of the configuration changes being made, anyone has the ability to grab servers for running tests on-demand, as they need them, which saves us on hardware costs as well."

 

“CollabNet is dedicated to making distributed development teams more productive and more responsive,” said Tony de la Lama, CollabNet vice president of worldwide marketing and corporate strategy, in the Monday statement.

 

“CUBiT gives teams more flexibility with and visibility into their build and test processes, by providing them with a tool to quickly adapt their development environment. With the introduction of development services, teams can access precisely the build and test tools, application stack, and servers they need through their browser or IDE, from a pool of on-demand resources.” 

This latest release from CollabNet answers a growing need as developers are continuously tasked with creating bigger and better systems that will handle more information, processing, etc. With this growing demand, the backlog for new systems can be substantial.

As CUBiT has proven its worth already in critical systems with market dominating companies, this latest release from CollabNet is sure to grab significant attention in the industry, thereby growing demand and adoption. This latest release also has the potential of changing the standard in the industry, creating an environment where month-long release cycles are no longer considered acceptable.