Whitepapers & Articles
Read and download the latest free whitepapers and educational material authored by iTKO experts.
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iTKO Whitepaper: The Next Frontier Value for Virtualization: Over-Utilized Systems  Hardware virtualization technology is now par for the course in enterprise IT environments. Enterprises can realize immediate cost savings through the use of hardware virtualization to reduce server proliferation, consolidate desktop environments, and run numerous apps with a smaller combined hardware footprint. The key value espoused by leading virtualization vendors (such as VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, etc.) is making better use of "under-utilized" servers and intermittently used capacity that does not demand dedicated system resources to run. |
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iTKO Whitepaper: Demystifying Cloud-Based Testing and the Related Benefits Cloud computing has the potential to deliver enterprise software with increased flexibility and lower cost-of-entry. The Cloud provides benefits for development environments and test labs as well, increasing our options in how IT assets are provisioned to help teams across the software development and testing lifecycle. |
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iTKO/SAP Whitepaper : Validation and Virtualization of SAP Enterprise SOA Applications with iTKO LISA While SOA promises the business value of agility and reuse to SAP customers, this practice also adds IT risk, due to the complexity of maintaining application integrity across workflows that span multiple technologies. How can companies achieve functional and performance testing strategies that are complete enough to cover SOA? Replicating full test landscapes for development and testing activities, with all the components and data needed to validate a rich business process, can be expensive and difficult to create and maintain. Services might not be fully developed, or they might be owned by external providers and accessed over the Internet. |
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iTKO Whitepaper : Minimize IT Outsourcing Risk with Collaborative Quality Outsourced software development and testing has become a common practice that continues to experience significant growth. However, many organizations have learned the hard way that lower outsourced hourly staff rates do not translate into linear costs savings, and that although reducing costs is important, avoiding quality problems, schedule delays, and the associated risks are even more important. |
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iTKO Whitepaper: "Service Virtualization in Enterprise Application Development" Many large organizations are in the process of adopting hardware virtualization technology for the development of their dynamic enterprise applications. However, hardware virtualization is not appropriate or feasible in all circumstances, and by focusing solely on hardware virtualization we could be leaving opportunities to save significant time and money on the table. This white paper introduces the practice of Service Virtualization as a key complement to hardware virtualization to facilitate the efficient development and testing of dynamic enterprise applications. Service virtualization involves the imaging of software service behavior and the modeling of a virtual service to stand in for the actual service during development and testing. Organizations that want to realize the full benefits of a virtualization strategy should evaluate both the hardware and software virtualization approaches described in this whitepaper. |
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iTKO Whitepaper: Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle with LISA, 2008 October We know about Agile practices in development, but how does Agile fit into the lifecycle of your entire enterprise IT processes? From Agile, to ALM and IT governance, this paper covers both a micro- and macro-view of Agility across all of the process toolsets, technology layers and distributed teams that contribute to SOA. |
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iTKO Whitepaper: "Enterprise IT Performance Management with LISA Virtual Services Environment" How can we leverage leading Load & Performance testing tools such as Mercury LoadRunner, and Borland SilkPerformer in our test lab, by leveraging Virtualization to give IT a ready test bed at the speed of change in today's business? LISA Virtual Service Environment allows development, testing and performance teams to achieve better service levels, while saving as much as 90% of the cost of replicating each application environment. |
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Article: SOA Interoperability & Structural Policy - A Primer for Ensuring Compliant Enterprise Services While we often talk about the big picture of SOA Governance and Virtualization, let's take a look under the hood at some of the nitty-gritty details of service enablement. Read a recent article from iTKO chief geek John Michelsen on how to test and validate Structural Policy in Services layers. |
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Whitepaper: Service-Oriented Virtualization Is SOV the next wave in virtualization? Learn how Virtual Services will merge the efficiencies of Virtualization, with the agility and cost benefits of SOA. |
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Whitepaper: For SOA, The Future of Quality is Federated In order to achieve results from SOA Governance efforts, you need to establish Trust across distributed groups and systems. Here's how. |
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Whitepaper: Lifecycle Quality: The "Tipping Point" of SOA Governance How can you trust that your business needs are being met by SOA? This whitepaper discusses the fundamental drivers for SOA Governance, and the best practices for achieving SOA with the maximum potential value upside and less business risk, due to SOA Lifecycle Quality. |
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Whitepaper: For SOA Software, Quality is In the Field If your company is in the business of creating and implementing software, you might have noticed that initial quality is important during software development, but far more costly and involved during implementation and support cycles - a long tail of uncaptured value from better testing that could persist for years. Hear from iTKO's Jason English on this untapped value and how your field organization can capture its share. |
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Whitepaper: TIBCO Testing, Validation & Virtualization Best Practices with LISA In order to achieve Trust that integration processes deliver expected business results, the enterprise needs the ability to ensure Quality at every stage of the application lifecycle. The iTKO LISA for TIBCO solution was built from the ground up to give development and integration teams the ability to test every layer of a TIBCO-powered application infrastructure, from design and component testing, to comprehensive testing of business workflows during integration and deployment efforts. |
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Whitepaper: iTKO LISA Testing Best Practices with Software AG (webMethods) In order to achieve trust that SOA and integration projects deliver expected business results, the enterprise needs the ability to ensure quality at every stage of the application lifecycle. The iTKO LISA for Software AG (webMethods) solution was built from the ground up to give development and integration teams the ability to test every layer of a Software AG (webMethods) Fabric-powered application infrastructure, from design and component testing, to comprehensive tesintegration and deployment efforts. |