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SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization

Companies are adopting Virtualization in the data center to reduce the server costs of supporting SOA. Furthermore, if you are tackling the hardest quality and integration challenges, you need to eliminate dependencies among teams throughout the application development lifecycle. That can be achieved by virtualizing the behaviors of complex services-based applications. Moreover, expanding on the value of server consolidation and test lab virtualization beyond the enterprise data center, is key to providing faster time-to-market and quality across the full lifecycle of developing, testing and maintaining highly interconnected services-based applications. We interview John Michelsen to gain with iTKO's perspective on SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization.
John is the Chief Scientist & co-founder of iTKO. 45 Minutes

SOA Quality Management

SOA bring challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. Moreover, SOA requires quality management across all types of testing—functional, performance, security, and compliance. Each of these is affected by multiple factors such as the type of SOA being built, the needs of service providers and consumers, and the testing tools and techniques currently in use. Furthermore, IT quality managers must develop and implement a SOA quality program thatfurthers the organization’s goals for SOA. Success can be achieved by leveraging the right strategy, implementing the right processes and selecting the right tools. We interview Jeff Meyers to gain HP's perspective on Software Quality Management for SOA.
Jeff is a Senior Product Manager for HP Software's SOA Quality Management Solutions. 55 Minutes

Better Business Outcomes with PPM

The need to bring order out of chaos is nothing new to organizations. Technical complexity, increasing demand for new applications and services, and proliferating systems crowding the data center floor are routine. So is the need to juggle ever-changing management priorities—and deal with the vagaries of the quarterly budget. What’s new is the fact that project and portfolio management (PPM) now impacts business success in a visceral way. The efficiency and effectiveness of PPM are directly related to bottom-line financial results—and poor PPM practices are not an option for business leaders. Equally important, new trends and business conditions are increasing the pressure to implement better PPM practices. We interview Bruce Randall to gain HP's perspective IT financial management. Bruce is Director of Product Marketing for HP. 24 Minutes

Business & IT Alignment with PPM

It’s easy to tell when your business is overcommitted, over budget and overwhelmed. It’s not so easy to prevent it from happening. Step one is to gain insight into your business activities and ask the hard question, are they translating into business results? With multiple operational and strategic activities under evaluation or underway at any given moment, you need the ability to step back to see which ones are truly aligned with business objectives. The question is, how? How will you get a better view of what’s going on, put better controls in place, prioritize investments and implement consistent quality practices—without breaking the budget or further burdening the staff? We interview Ken Cheney to gain HP's perspective on Project and Portfolio Management. Ken is HP Software's Director of Product Marketing. 30 Minutes

Collaborative Software Development

Distributed development organizations are often limited by conventional build and test processes that are not designed to provide the flexibility, optimization and processes to meet the operational challenges associated with building and testing software in highly distributed environments. To overcome this limitation, centralized LAN-based approaches are being displaced by a distributed Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) approach. The goal of a CDE is to unify project managers, developers, and business users within a single development environment accessible from anywhere in the world. We interview Nick Bonfiglio to gain COLLABNET's perspective on build and test governance capabilities. Nick is the VP of Worldwide Operations for CollabNet. 40 Minutes