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Service Oriented Virtualization

SOA and Virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need to be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners

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iTKO LISA Combines SOA Monitoring with Advanced Test Execution Capabilities

Native test interaction with leading system metrics dashboards and reporting environments provides improved control over performance and reliability.

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For SOA, The Future of Quality is Federated

This paper will refer to government organizations as a case study on SOA Governance. However, architects and developers in the business computing arena can draw valuable lessons from the complex integration and quality challenges faced by federal agencies.

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iTKO LISA 4 Release Revolutionizes SOA Quality with Virtualized Services and Business Process Testing Features

LISA's Evolution Mitigates IT Risk through SOA Testing, Integration Support and Policy Validation

iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced the availability of the new version of its flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing and Validation. LISA expands upon iTKO's delivery of the Three C's of testing - complete, collaborative and continuous - by adding key functionalities that mitigate the business risk of ever-increasing change and complexity in enterprise IT.

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iTKO Announces Virtualization of Performance Labs with Webinar on LISA VSE with Load Testing

Monday 19 May 2008

Industry Thought Leaders Discuss Customer Examples of Bringing Performance Validation "Into the Lifecycle" using Virtual Services and Leading Tools such as LoadRunner

Dallas, TX -- iTKO LISA, a provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and integration software, announced new capabilities built into LISA Virtual Service Environment (VSE) which allow software development, testing and performance teams to achieve better service levels, while saving as much as 90 percent of the cost of replicating separate application environments for different teams.

An upcoming InfoWorld webinar on May 28, 2008 will provide real-world customer examples of how LISA VSE provides a target for load and performance testing, as well as expert insight into this new combination of Virtualization and performance testing solutions. Leading Application Lifecycle practices analyst Theresa Lanowitz of voke, and iTKO LISA founder & Chief Architect John Michelsen will explore the difficulties of high-performance testing within complex, distributed development environments. By virtualizing the behavior of application services and data with a VSE solution, performance teams can ensure reliability throughout the development lifecycle, while better utilizing their substantial investments in leading load testing tools like HP (Mercury) LoadRunner, Borland (Segue) SilkTest and others.

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"The ability to predict the reliability of an application by virtually testing performance at any point in the lifecycle is a necessary ingredient for managing the complex software of the 21st century" said Theresa Lanowitz, founder, voke inc. "By virtualizing away the dependencies inherent in testing a services-based environment, Quality Assurance and IT operations teams are empowered to tackle the most difficult performance challenges with a higher degree of automation."

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The webinar will be moderated by InfoWorld's Center Executive Editor, Doug Dineley, and is scheduled for Wednesday, May 28th at 2:00 PM ET. A free signup for the session is available at http://www.itko.com/site/resources/vsewebinar052808.jsp .

"The performance test lab often struggles to exercise today's complex, interconnected applications earlier in the delivery lifecycle, and they face diminishing returns on that testing effort and cost," said John Michelsen. "This webinar will explore a solution to this dilemma, showcasing LISA Virtual Services Environment as a way for enterprises to bring performance management into the overall software development and implementation lifecycle at a drastically reduced cost."

iTKO has also authored a white paper on this topic, outlining how to leverage LISA VSE in an existing Performance Testing lab to eliminate dependencies on live systems and components that are still under development. Examples from leading enterprise IT shops who are delivering high-performance, critical applications are covered. The document can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.itko.com/site/resources/enterprise.jsp .

About iTKO LISA

iTKO LISA offers the most comprehensive solution for testing, validating, and virtualizing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). iTKO's mission is to minimize the business risk inherent in making frequent changes to complex IT environments. Their LISA software suite provides Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous quality throughout the enterprise software delivery lifecycle. LISA enables the extended team, from development, to QA and business analysts to exercise multiple business technology layers within a single test case. LISA automates unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, and virtualization of services and data. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Citigroup, WaMu, Level3, TIBCO and i2.
http://www.itko.com

iTKO Press Contact: Jason English, VP Corporate Marketing - Jason.English@iTKO.com -- 214-764-9318