The iTKO LISA Soapbox: Modern Application Testing, Validation & Virtualization

Many of our initial customer discussions focus on assessing the "health" of your SOA and Integration efforts. How do you measure health in the distributed software applications like we see in every major enterprise? It's not just about measuring appl

This is the fifth post in our series based on the new whitepaper "The Next Frontier for Virtualization: Over-Utilized Systems" by iTKO (Ahrens, English). In this issue we cover how the practice of Service Virtualization provides solutions f

Recently I had the chance to catch up SD Times' Jeff Feinman for an interview about the latest trends we're seeing in software QA. In the resulting article, "Hitting the Right Notes in QA", Jeff surveyed practically every software testing vendor in t

We have an upcoming event happening on the IDevNews network that we are very excited about participating in. iTKO and guest speaker Accenture are co-presenting a webinar Thursday, September 17, on achieving quality among distributed systems and team

This is the fourth post in our series based on the new whitepaper "The Next Frontier for Virtualization: Over-Utilized Systems" by iTKO (Ahrens, English). In this installment, we discuss 2 of the big 3 challenges of Over-Utilization: Limite

I just joined in another fast forum on eBizQ with a good question posed by uber-SOA blogger Joe McKendrick: "There has always been a huge cultural divide between the business folks, who felt that they own BPM, versus the IT folks, who own the archite

This is the third post in our series based on the new whitepaper "The Next Frontier for Virtualization: Over-Utilized Systems" by iTKO (Ahrens, English). In this installment, we will break off one of the big 3 challenges of Over-Utiliza

Here's an introduction to the concept of "Over-Utilization" in terms of Virtualization of software and services. This and 4 more posts in this series will cover concepts detailed in a recent whitepaper by Ken Ahrens and Jason English, "The Next Fro

One of our really savvy Architects Ken Ahrens recently had an Aha! moment while visiting a financial institution. The customer was asking how our definition of virtualization was different than the more commonly known types of hardware and desktop vi

iTKO and HP recently signed an agreement which created a significant piece of news: "iTKO's LISA Virtualize Software to Be Resold by HP to Reduce Testing Costs and Accelerate Time to Market for Modern Applications" There is a lot of value to capture