Case Study: Dell Force10 achieves 200+ engineer-hours saved per week and 80% faster builds with CloudBees Build Acceleration

CloudBees Build Acceleration Helps Force10 Save at Least 200 Engineer-hours Per Week

Force10 (Dell Force10) struggled with increasingly long software builds—often over three hours—which threatened product schedules and competitive position. Prior fixes like dedicating extra build hardware and trying GNU Make -j were not scalable and produced minimal benefit.

CloudBees Accelerator provided an automated, scalable build cluster that fixes missing dependencies, removes manual Makefile maintenance, and speeds builds by over 80%. The solution eliminated build bottlenecks, saved an estimated 200 engineer‑hours per week, and enabled faster, more reliable releases.

Dell Force10

Arun Viswanathan

VP of Software Engineering