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Whitepaper with Infosys and ITKO: Service Virtualization for Modern Applications   An Infosys and ITKO Whitepaper, September 2010

Disruptive innovations such as the internet have repeatedly forced businesses to change quickly or be relegated to history. Every such disruption asks a simple question of service functions in an organization - can they evolve quickly enough? Modern approaches such as service oriented architectures (SOA), along with other similar distributed application architectures, carry great promise and can provide an effective model for lean, agile and componentized IT that can adapt quickly. SOA is one of the most widely adopted enterprise architectural methodologies, but its implementation is anything but simple. Since classical testing methodologies and tools do not fit modern applications well, we have evolved newer more rigorous approaches and products to address increased software complexity and change. Service Virtualization is one of the latest ideas that can provide a faster time to market for software, with higher quality and lesser risk.

This new whitepaper, jointly written by Infosys' Gaurish Hattangadi and ITKO's Rajeev Gupta, focuses on the use of virtualization as it applies to the problems of developing and testing modern SOA applications.