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iTKO Webinar with Accenture: Addressing a Lack of Capacity: Virtualizing the Performance Lab for Optimal Results

An iTKO Best Practices Webinar featuring Accenture


June 24, 2010 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Central Time

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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.

Techniques discussed in this webinar will include:

  1. Removing capacity constraints from the performance testing lab: Rather than buy more prohibitively expensive test environment infrastructure, address the lowest capacity dependencies in your performance environment first. Customer example: Leading Global Bank.
  2. Conduct incremental, iterative Performance Testing: "Big Bang" performance testing no longer works in an agile, distributed software world. To succeed in eliminating performance problems, teams need to performance test earlier in the software lifecycle, against a broad set of possible scenarios. By virtualizing the environment, teams can get this early, iterative access. Customer example: Top Telecommunications company.
  3. Performance Management by Decomposing SLAs. With very tight performance cycle time requirements, performance teams must learn to build up and isolate the target application's responsiveness at a component level to meet critical Service Level requirements. Virtualization of services can allow this process to move forward, even if all of the needed technologies are not available. Customer example: Top 20 Insurance Firm.

Speakers:

Scott GillilandScott Gilliland, Accenture
Scott is a Partner with 18+ years of experience in Accenture's Technology Consulting Organization. Scott currently leads Accenture's Performance Engineering Practice both for North America as well as globally. This practice is dedicated to providing highly skilled and trained performance experts that are focused on diagnosing and troubleshooting production performance issues clients face with their mission critical systems. Prior to his current role, Scott also served as the lead technical architect and primary client contact on delivery of several large scale architectures and system implementations. Scott resides in West Chester, Pa with his wife and two children.


John MichelsenJohn Michelsen, iTKO's Founder and Chief Geek
John has over fifteen years of experience as a technical leader at all organization levels, designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality.

Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was Director of Development at Trilogy Inc., and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He has been titled Chief Technical Architect at companies like Raima, Sabre, and Xerox while performing as a consultant. Through work with clients like Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific and Nielsen Market Research, John has deployed solutions using technologies from the mainframe to the handheld device.