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iTKO Upcoming Events

Date

Event

Location

August 3-5, 2010 AFCEA LandWarNet 2010

Tampa, FL

Sept 13-16, 2010 2010 ITEA Annual Symposium
See iTKO demonstrate critical virtualization and validation solutions for the defense and government industry in Booth #501

Glendale, Arizona

Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2010 STARWEST 2010
Register using special promo code ITWV and save up to $400 if you register by Early Bird August 27th! Call the client support group at 888.268.8770 or register online at: https://www.sqe.com/StarWest/Register/SelectConference.aspx

San Diego, CA

iTKO Archived Events

More archived events are available in the Resources: Webinars/Podcasts section of our site.

Date

Event

June 24, 2010 iTKO Webinar Archive: Addressing a Lack of Capacity: Virtualizing the Performance Lab for Optimal Results
With Accenture. Most major enterprises have invested millions of dollars on software performance lab infrastructure. These huge capital investments have developed recurring maintenance effort and costs, unstable environments, and inter-team conflicts over constrained resources. To combat this drain and deliver meaningful value, companies need to find ways to optimize performance labs and add incremental value. By Virtualizing the behavior and performance characteristics of test lab dependencies, Accenture and iTKO have demonstrated how joint customers can achieve highly available labs that allow earlier performance testing with greater flexibility, at a much lower cost.
June 23, 2010 IBM DeveloperWorks Webinar: Cloud Computing for Developers
iTKO founder/chief scientist John Michelsen discusses "Virtualizing Away Development Constraints in the Cloud"
May 27, 2010 iTKO Webinar Archive: The 4 Catalysts for Optimizing Enterprise Software Development and Testing
With Cognizant. Enterprise applications are becoming increasingly complex and distributed. Newer software delivery approaches such as Cloud, SOA, BPM and Agile methodologies offer increased flexibility and agility. However, IT organizations become reactive when feeling the heat of increased software failures, delayed timelines and mounting costs. By mapping out the right mix of virtualization and testing tools, and choosing best practices built for today's applications, the software lifecycle can be optimized. Critical IT functionality can be delivered on time and under budget. This webinar highlights 4 primary catalysts that can proactively optimize software development and testing.
March 3, 2010 iTKO Webinar Archive: "No Free Beer" in Modern and Cloud-Based Application Performance and Quality
With Accenture. Today's distributed development and deployment approaches make it much easier to pour "apps on tap" -- rapidly available software components built for flexible assembly as Services or Cloud-based applications. However, there is simply "no free beer" when it comes to consuming these applications for serious business purposes.
February 18, 2010 iTKO Webinar Archive: Aligning Business Goals for Software Quality, Schedule and Cost in Complex IT Environments
With Capgemini. Business leaders are constantly seeking new competitive advantages in a rapidly changing marketplace, including advantages provided by new business applications. However, there is a growing gap between business leader's expectations for software quality, adherence to requirements, and on-time delivery versus the reality of what's delivered in an increasingly complex and changing enterprise IT environment.
December 15, 2009 iTKO Webinar Archive: Leveraging Modern Software Quality to Prevent Cost and Schedule Overruns
With TCS. Test Smarter, Release Faster, and Achieve Cost Reduction Goals. As the year comes to a close, many organizations are dealing with the difficult reality of cost and schedule overruns in the test and delivery stage of their software projects. Distributed, service-based enterprise applications are being developed and assembled at increasingly high velocity by leveraging reusable components and newer integration technologies.
December 1, 2009 iTKO Webinar Archive: Are Testing Costs eating up your Development Budgets?
With CSC. New composite application development approaches such as SOA, BPM, and SaaS can provide greater flexibility and speed in assembling reusable components and services into applications. While platform vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and TIBCO have made innovations that have brought integration time and development costs down, the unintended consequence is that testing these systems is becoming harder than ever.

October 27, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: Accelerating Modern Application Quality
With Infosys. Testing Strategies for Reducing Risk and Cost in today's Distributed Application Environment. Join iTKO's John Michelsen and Aparna Sharma, Worldwide Head of Client Services, Independent Validation & Testing, Infosys Technologies for this insightful discussion on how to help you learn how to speed time to market for your business applications, while minimizing project risk and cost.

September 23, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: "Overcoming SOA Integration Testing Challenges and Other Critical Gaps to SOA Quality and Efficiency"

September 17, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: "Achieving Quality & Agility Across Distributed Test & Development Teams". With Accenture.

June 18, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: "Removing ALM Obstacles for Greater Agility, Cost Savings, and Lower Risk"

With Forrester. Experts from iTKO and Forrester Research present trends / technologies behind automated testing and validation to streamline ALM for higher productivity, accuracy and agility. Attend and Learn how Testing, Validation and Virtualization are being employed to support the best practices of Dynamic SQA (Software Quality Assurance). With with strong Dynamic SQA in place, enterprise IT teams are poised to deliver predictability, patterns and reuse to better manage complex software projects.

April 29, 2009

iTKO and CSC - Building your SOA Center of Excellence

SOA-based enterprise application projects today struggle with ever increasing complexity while being asked to deliver up against extremely difficult cost and time constraints. CSC and iTKO have collaborated to offer a SOA testing service and SOA Testing Center of Excellence so that SOA-based application development projects achieve higher quality, faster time-to-market, and lower costs.

March 31, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: Realizing the Benefits of Enterprise Integration and SOA at Lower Costs, with Perficient

February 25, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: Reducing SoftwareAG Implementation Costs and Risks with Collaborative Quality Across the Lifecycle

January 21, 2009

iTKO Webinar Archive: Eliminating Risk, Cost & Dependencies from SOA

Dec 15, 2008

Podcast: SOA & Virtualization Futures - Michelsen with Schooff

Nov 7, 2008

eWeek Podcast with Mike Vizard and John Michelsen: Application Development in the Clouds

Oct 28, 2008

Podcast: Preview interview with Jason English - iTKO's presence at the eBizQ SOA in Action Online Conference.

Sept 24, 2008

Virtual Conference: eBizQ SOA Governance Online Summit

SOA crosses departmental and organizational boundaries. The ability to reuse existing services developed by disparate development organizations requires comprehensive governance. Policies need to be consistently defined and managed for how services are designed and utilized during production. This full day virtual conference will cover the full range of governance issues and solutions including IT governance, SOA governance, data governance, registries, repositories, and run-time service governance.

Watch the "Roundtable: SOA Governance" in the Conference to hear from iTKO's John Michelsen and other SOA experts, and visit the iTKO booth for more information!

Sept 23, 2008

CM Crossroads Webinar: "Test, Validate & Virtualize for Agile SOA"

SOA is a method for aligning technology around the needs of the business that is Agile by nature. However, this decentralized, service-based model will change how we design, develop and deploy enterprise software. With SOA, we are constantly subject to a changing set of services and new business requirements, which introduces huge risks and productivity issues, in terms of quality and interdependency among teams.

What does Agile mean in today's Service-Oriented world? And how will Agile teams break the barriers of quality and dependencies that reduce the value of going to SOA? Join iTKO's John Michelsen, Rally Development's VP Products Zach Nies, and the experts at Agile Journal for a unique educational session on SOA Testing, Validation and Virtualization for the Agile practitioner. Learn about the new methods and tools companies are using for flexibly delivering business functionality, while ensuring quality -- without the burdensome constraints of limited access to needed resources.

In this Webcast, you will learn:

  • How to build agility and collaborate effectively within distributed SOA testing and development teams
  • Best practices for mitigating the risks of delivering and managing software within an ever-changing SOA environment
  • Methods for SOA testing, validation and virtualization to overcome interdependencies in SOA projects

Sept 17, 2008

Podcast: iTKO's SOA testing and validation role supports increasingly complex integration lifecycles

August 21, 2008

iTKO Webinar Archive: SOA and ESB Intermediation & Validation - Eliminating the Controversy
Are you using or migrating to or from a leading integration solution from a platform vendor, such as SoftwareAG/webMethods, TIBCO, Oracle, IBM MQ, SOA Software or Sonic? Have questions about how ESB/messaging layers and Integration servers fit into your SOA plans? Learn from the experts at iTKO -- we've been supporting a heterogeneous world of integration platforms from the beginning!

August, 2008

Podcast with John Michelsen: Minimizing Business Risk with SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization

March 12, 2008

SD Times Webinar Archive: Three Steps to SOA Trust: Testing, Validation and Virtualization with John Michelsen, iTKO, and Dave Rubenstein, bzMedia (Moderator)

Adopting a service-oriented approach allows companies "do more with less" and gain agility, by integrating new and existing technologies around business goals. However, dancing with SOA comes with an increase the level of complexity in ensuring quality across the lifecycle of these highly interdependent and heterogeneous applications. Often, development and QA teams do not even have access to all of the components they need to design and develop Services that meet the expected business goals. This webinar will provide best practices and real-world examples of teams that are taking three key steps on the road to SOA, and gaining sure footing as well as trust across teams.

  • Testing: Continuous testing of the application to ensure that all components are meeting expected service levels of Performance, Reliability and Scalability.
  • Validation: Invoking and verifying that business behaviors are being carried out accurately not just at the Service layer, but within systems of record.
  • Virtualization: Freeing teams from the burden of dependency on live applications by allowing them to flexibly simulate their behavior in their own environment

December 13, 2007

iTKO Webinar Archive: "SOA & Virtualization" webinar with Theresa Lanowitz

November 14, 2007

iTKO Webinar Archive: LISA for TIBCO Integration and SOA Quality

October 10, 2007

iTKO Webinar Archive: SOA and Integration Testing with iTKO and Software AG (webMethods) Implementations

August 27, 2007

Podcast: Network World - John Michelsen on SOA vs. Web 2.0

July 25, 2007

Webinar: The SOA Governance Lifecycle: Managing and Trusting your Architecture

July 18, 2007

iTKO Webinar Archive: iTKO, Zapthink and Managed Methods Group Webinar: 'Governance, Quality and Management: The Keys to Trusting SOA'

Migrating to an SOA strategy offers cost and flexibility advantages for the enterprise. However, to avoid business risk and achieve trust, teams must approach SOA as a continuous lifecycle and not a one-time implementation event. Proper SOA Governance requires continuous testing and management throughout the lifecycle of your applications, not just during development, but beyond deployment.

February 27, 2007

iTKO Webinar Archive: 'SOA Governance and the Continuous Quality Lifecycle of Service-Based Applications'

With Aberdeen Group. Is SOA Testing the final frontier of SOA Governance? In SOA and composite application environments, research shows that the tools and practices to ensure quality may often lag behind the enterprise's ability to deploy initial Services. What will the impact of this difference be, and how can you take steps to counteract the quality challenge and trust your architecture?