Webinar 9/17 w/ iTKO & Guest Accenture - Test and Develop Across Distributed Teams
iTKO and guest speaker Accenture are co-presenting a webinar Thursday, September 17, on achieving quality among distributed systems and teams. iTKO Chief Scientist, John Michelsen, and Accenture Partner, Jeff Wilkinson, will present and answer questions on the topic and related solutions.
iTKO’s LISA Extends SOA Testing To Speed Deployment
"iTKO LISA is shipping upgrades to its SOA validation and virtualization lifecycle quality solutions to speed up design-to-deployment for enterprise software and SOA services. "...
Crosscheck acquires Forum Systems
"Crosscheck Networks this week announced its acquisition of Forum Systems, an early player in the market for securing and accelerating Web services traffic. "...
Skytap's Cloud Computing and ITKO LISA as an Initial Partner
"Skytap, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions, today announced its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program to enable on-demand distribution of commercial software solutions through its Virtual Lab platform. Skytap's initial ISV partners include ITKO LISA. Skytap's Virtual Lab automation platform, combined with ITKO LISA, will enable customers to dynamically spin up entire IT environments for service-oriented testing or training labs."...
SOA and Cloud Computing Both on the Rise but at Very Different Parts of Gartner Hype Curve
"ReadWriteWeb recently posted an interesting piece on a research showing that the Fastest Growing US Companies are Rapidly Adopting Social Media."...
SOA Governance: Separating Success from Chaos – Aberdeen Report
"The Aberdeen Group just released a report, SOA Governance: Separating Success from Chaos, that speaks to the heart of some of the most critical issues in SOA success."...
iTKO LISA and dynaTrace Partner for Federated SOA Testing, Validation and Performance Solution
Joint Solution to be Demonstrated at LandWarNet 2008, Leading SOA Testing & Virtualization Platform Combines with Leading SOA Performance Diagnostics Solution
Intermediating ESBs for SOA: The Final Webinar?
...."All of this started with an innocent little interview John did for SearchSOA - where the topic of Intermediating multiple ESBs came up. This article created a tornado of posts from some heavy hitters on SOA topics over the last month.Given all of that, we decided to have our own little webinar on the topic Monday - and we were glad to find dozens of you Chief Architects and senior IT & Dev Managers attending - and asking some great questions about how to rationalize ESBs with their existing technologies, and enable your SOA initiatives going forward."...
SOA complicated by ESB proliferation
"Enterprise service bus (ESB) intermediation remains an issue despite the adoption of WS-* standards, argues John Michelsen, chief architect at iTKO Inc., the testing vendor specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA)."....
How Can You Implement SOA without an Architecture?
"Michael Meehan writes, in "Having trouble with SOA? Pay attention to the architecture," that he has never seen a successful SOA implementation story that did not feature an architecture. He goes on to write, “If you can’t produce a representation of your architecture and then demonstrate that you’ve actually built systems in accordance with that architecture, then you can’t claim to be doing SOA.” As one commenter on Michael's blog wrote, it is asking the right question"....