World’s Oldest Printer and Publisher
Deploys Unique Technology and Shaves 50% off Development Lifecycle
CAMBRIDGE, England & SAN RAMON, Calif.---Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534, the world’s
oldest printer and publisher, as well as one of the world’s
largest academic publishers, and WANdisco, a leading provider of
distributed software development solutions, today announced that
Cambridge has selected WANdisco for CVS to support their globally
distributed software development efforts. WANdisco continues to add
marquee customers to its rapidly growing list by overcoming the
performance limitations of wide area networks, and as a result driving
significant time and cost out of the development cycle.
Cambridge University Press has software developers at two sites in the
United Kingdom and Philippines. Prior to implementing WANdisco for CVS,
poor WAN performance between these sites had become a significant drag
on developer productivity. “It often took a
day or more for developers in Manila to checkout large files from our
server in the UK. Checkins weren’t much
better. When the network went down, the whole process had to be
restarted,” said Nick Louch, Technical
Architect, Information and Publishing Services.
When Cambridge University Press implemented WANdisco, they found that
checkins and checkouts of large files that used to take a day or more
over the WAN now complete at LAN-speed in a matter of minutes, or in
some cases seconds. At the same time, Cambridge University Press’
servers in the UK and Philippines are kept in sync in real-time. None of
the other multi-site development solutions Cambridge University Press
evaluated came close to delivering this level of performance.
“With WANdisco, our developers in Cambridge
and Manila work as if they are one team at the same location, rather
than separated by thousands of miles over a WAN. Now, everything gets
done at LAN-speed, and our CVS repositories stay in sync. Problems are
detected earlier, there is less QA and rework needed than we had before,
and development cycle times have been reduced,”
said Louch.
"We are delighted that Cambridge University Press has recognized the
tremendous time and cost savings that WANdisco brings to globally
distributed software development," said David Richards, President and
CEO of WANdisco. "Cambridge's experience is consistent with what we are
hearing from our customers across the board."
About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing and printing house of the
University of Cambridge. It is an integral part of the University and
has similar charitable objectives in advancing knowledge, education,
learning and research. For centuries the Press has extended the research
and teaching activities of the University by making available worldwide
through its printing and publishing a remarkable range of academic and
educational books, journals, examination papers and Bibles. For millions
of people around the globe, the publications of the Press represent
their only real link with the University of Cambridge. http://www.cambridge.org
About WANdisco
WANdisco is a leading provider of distributed software development
solutions. By using WANdisco's totally unique replication technology,
software development can now occur anywhere without any constraints.
Fortune Global 1000 companies such as AT&T, Honda, NTT and Motorola rely
on WANdisco's suite of source code management solutions for Subversion
and CVS. Visit http://www.wandisco.com.
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