Debugging Software

Stacey Higginbotham last July included Replay Solutions in her list of Five Startups to Watch. In a recent article, she goes back to those five startups to see where they are now.

Stacey gives her new article the title “Intel, Microsoft Gorging on Multicore Programming Startups” and reports that three out of the five startups have been “snapped up” by Intel and Microsoft.

Intel’s goal is to offer tools to make its chips a better bargain for companies that want to use multicore chips without investing a lot of money in rewriting their code. Microsoft’s interest is in an overall improvement to its high-performance computing software for computing clusters and desktops, as well as of course promoting the use of Windows my making it easier to build great applications on their OS.

Needless to say, we agree with Stacey. While Replay’s debugging software is not limited to multicore environments, it allows programmers to replay exactly what happened in the moments before a software crash, or performance slowdown, or security breach. With this ability, they can immediately see what the problem is and fix it.

Replay’s recording technology is useful in any complex environment, including multicore environments, production datacenters, and cloud environments.