Intel selects WANdisco to support development between US and China

SANTA CLARA & SAN RAMON, USA: Intel and WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability and high availability, announced that Intel’s Consumer Electronics Group has selected WANdisco’s Subversion MultiSite to support over 1,000 developers located at sites in Shanghai, Oregon and Arizona.

Intel joins an ever growing list of globally distributed organizations that rely on WANdisco’s unique technology to overcome the problems of wide area network performance, reliability and availability.

Before implementing Subversion MultiSite, all three teams used one central Subversion server. But slow and unreliable networks between the US and China caused unacceptable delays throughout the entire development lifecycle. Developers and QA staff were forced to work long hours while they waited for the latest changes from other sites, in an effort to stay on schedule. New product releases were frequently delayed.

“With Subversion MultiSite, we’re 24 by 7 now,” said Jeremy Capps, IT Manager at Intel. “We went from over two hours of downtime each day to zero. Slow networks are no longer a problem for remote users and our build process is three to four times faster.”

Before selecting WANdisco, Intel conducted a thorough search for a solution that could solve the problem of network reliability and speed between China and the US. Part of this effort included a review of alternative Source Code Management Solutions and open source alternatives such as Svnsync.

“We searched for open source tools that might fill our need and tested them. We found that our build time was three to four times slower with these products, which were not even close to usable for our application. We had time-outs, false reports and so on. WANdisco is the only product available that fills this need,” continued Jeremy Capps.

After Intel implemented Subversion MultiSite, network performance and reliability were no longer issues. Now, the latest changes are always available everywhere and everything happens at local area network speed. Problems are caught and fixed when they occur, reducing QA and rework.

In addition, downtime for maintenance went from over two hours each day to zero because of Subversion MultiSite’s built-in hot backup, failover and automated recovery features. As a result, development cycle time and cost have been reduced by over 30 percent.

Capps continued, “Since implementing WANdisco we’ve seen some overjoyed developers in our remote locations.”

“We are extremely pleased that Intel has realized the savings in time and cost that WANdisco’s unique technology brings to the development lifecycle in a globally distributed organization,” said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco. “Intel’s experience is consistent with what we hear from our customers across the board.”