InfoWorld Webinar: Bringing Performance Validation "Into the Lifecycle" with a Virtual Service Environment (VSE) with Theresa Lanowitz, voke and John Michelsen, iTKO LISA
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 2:00 PM Eastern
Today's enterprise apps are both complex and ever-changing, which makes delivering high performance difficult. By Virtualizing the behavior of application services and data in a VSE, teams can answer this challenge with Load & Performance validation best practices, and test tools like LoadRunner, to ensure solid performance throughout the development and integration lifecycle.
Join leading Application Lifecycle analyst Theresa Lanowitz, voke, and iTKO LISA founder & Chief Architect John Michelsen, for this online event May 28, 2008, 2:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Pacific.
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Moderator: Doug Dineley, Executive Editor, InfoWorld Test Center
Speaker Biographies:
John Michelsen is Chief Architect and Founder of iTKO LISA, an automated SOA software testing company. John has more than 15 years of high-level enterprise development experience, as a chief architect of development teams and as an executive in 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, with several published articles and speaking appearances at technology conferences under his belt.
Theresa Lanowitz, Founder and Analyst, voke, inc. is recognized worldwide as a strategic thinker and market influencer in application life cycle, virtualization and convergence markets.
With over 20 years of experience, Theresa has been associated with some of the most breakthrough technology and products of their time.
From 1999 through 2006, Theresa was a research analyst with Gartner. During her tenure with Gartner, Theresa pioneered the application quality ecosystem, championed the application security space, and consistently identified new and emerging companies to watch. As the lead industry analyst for billion dollar plus enterprise software companies such as Mercury, Compuware, and a host of others, Theresa developed marketing and launch strategies, corporate and product messaging, and identified partnering and acquisition opportunities. Theresa has been a trusted advisor to some of the largest software companies in the industry. Her marketing and positioning expertise has been invaluable in the successful launches of major enterprise software initiatives, products, and services. At Gartner, Theresa was the founder, creator and chairperson of the highly successful Application Development conference.
Theresa is a founding member of AppSIC (the Application Security Industry Consortium), a member of the German ComputerWoche.de "Expert Panel on Quality IT Practices" and a frequent guest on SD Times "Week in Review" podcast. Theresa is widely quoted by the media and is highly sought as a public speaker and marketing strategist.
Theresa's professional career began with McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) where she worked on the C-17 transport plane. While at Borland Software, Theresa shipped the ground breaking Java development tool JBuilder. Theresa also played instrumental roles at Taligent in the areas of product management and international marketing. At Sun Microsystems, Theresa was responsible for the strategic marketing of the Jini project - a precursor to emerging convergence market.
Theresa is a visionary in the areas of convergence and virtualization and is passionate about seeing emerging technologies used to enhance the quality in the global community.
Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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Looking for more information on SOV and Virtual Services?
LISA Virtual Service Environment product page: Read about how LISA virtualizes service behaviors, breaking the team's dependency on live, deployed services. here >>.
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. here >>.
Read all about SOV and Virtual Services in the comprehensive new whitepaper from iTKO: "Service-Oriented Virtualization: New Frontiers in Agility and Quality Beyond Physical Infrastructures". Read the iTKO Whitepaper on Service-Oriented Virtualization here >>.
iTKO Webinar Archive: "Virtualizing SOA Behavior - The Next Chapter in Agility and Quality for IT" with Theresa Lanowitz, voke and John Michelsen, iTKO LISA. View the archive of the December 13, 2007 webinar.
