IBM teams up with iTKO for cloud apps

DALLAS, US: iTKO, a provider of virtualization and validation solutions for enterprise cloud applications, today announced it is teaming with IBM on a new service to help businesses more easily develop, test and deploy applications either on-premise or in a cloud.

The new service, as per the press release, combines iTKO LISA Virtualize, Test, Validate and Pathfinder application software with IBM Global Business Services consulting to speed up application deployment, without tapping into critical computing resources. IBM Application Virtualization Services is available for on-premise deployment, and will be available later this year on an IBM Cloud. Using the new service, clients can for the first time run applications in a virtual environment to reduce operational costs, simulate a production environment to effectively test new applications without creating new workloads on existing systems, deploy multiple test environments for each development and test team to boost productivity.

"Clients today are looking for new ways to streamline their IT infrastructure, reduce application costs, and drive more value out of their information assets," said IBM executive Steven Kagan, vice president, application management services, IBM Global Business Services. "The combination of iTKO software and IBM technologies and services can help our joint clients meet these business goals."

iTKO’s LISA product suite eliminates application development constraints using virtual service environments, optimizes discovery and resolution of coding defects, and improves test automation and validation for complex enterprise applications. LISA virtualization and validation solutions also support cloud application development to remove accessibility and capacity constraints in elastic cloud development and test environments.

A major utility company used LISA software to virtualize smart meter devices and EDI Gateway interfaces, improving productivity by 87 percent and time-to-market by 67 per cent.