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CollabNet CUBiT 2.0 introduces Cloud Management for Software Development

Breakthrough release empowers distributed teams to accelerate development cycles with Self-Service Build and Test Configurations and Servers

September 24, 2008 – Delivering on its mission to help software teams to simplify, collaborate, and innovate more efficiently at a lower cost, CollabNet today announced the launch of CollabNet CUBiT 2.0.

CUBiT 2.0 virtually eliminates the time intensive process of configuring servers for build and test by managing those configurations as ‘profiles’ across the application lifecycle. Applying the cloud computing model to distributed development, CollabNet CUBiT 2.0 enables teams to access on-demand servers from private corporate data centers or public clouds, to significantly reduce development cycles and hardware expenses.

Developers spend a great deal of time configuring servers and aligning the software stacks throughout the application lifecycle – an arduous task for server-intensive methodologies such as agile, scrum and continuous integration. CUBiT relieves these pain points by enabling code, build and test teams to accelerate development cycles, eliminate build and test errors, and gain flexibility in utilizing machines. It provides a secure way to reuse build and test profiles, reducing the likelihood of configuration errors that can delay software projects by months. In addition, CUBiT’s self-service dynamic provisioning capabilities automate labor-intensive server provisioning and configuration that can take weeks. A financial services customer has decreased their time to build by 400 percent – from months to days.

What’s New: CollabNet CUBiT Enters the Cloud

According to The 451 Group, cloud computing 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)."

Now with CUBiT 2.0, teams can group and manage their computing resources as clouds. It enables development teams to access a global pool of on-demand build and test services. Teams manage their own library of software profiles and quickly can apply a configuration onto a machine, and version control the profile throughout development, build, and QA.

Clouds in CUBiT are groups of server pools from a corporate data center or from public clouds like Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is the public cloud initially supported by CUBiT 2.0 and can be used for example to extend resources temporarily and at a very low cost.

Other new features in CUBiT 2.0 include support for LDAP/Active Directory, and advanced accounting and chargeback capabilities tied to role-based access control for allocating costs per server and profile type.

About CollabNet and Business Vision relationship

Business Vision is CollabnNet’s preferred partner in Latin America. We distribute and resell all CollabNet products and provide support, training, and customization services to ensure successful implementation.

With 1.5 million users, CollabNet leads the software industry towards a new era of collaborative software development. By connecting remote teams and integrating disparate development tools, the CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces infrastructure costs by up to 50%, and eliminates silos between isolated teams to speed innovation. CollabNet is the company behind Subversion, the world’s #1 version control and Software Configuration Management solution for distributed teams.