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A few more highlights from Impact (vid)

I promised some more scenes and footage from the show - so our media guy Paul just put together a neat little spot with some highlights from IBM Impact 2011. He said these were the only scenes where my footage wasn't too dark or shaky to use. All persons shown in the video, whether real or imaginary, are purely coincidental. Except John and Ruston of course, our founders planned to speak there.

 

Thanks again to all who made this show happen, and everyone who came to see us!

 

Just Landed from #IBMImpact 2011 - Agility is Smart Business

We're back and settled in after an exhilarating flight through IBM's Impact 2011 show in Las Vegas -- and not just because the casino pumps extra oxygen into the room. This year's Impact theme for IBM was "Changing the Way Business and IT Leaders Work." That covers a lot of ground, but so did the solutions on display this year, for instance IBM's acquisition of Sterling Commerce to bring new industrial processes to bear, not to mention new SOA, integration, Cloud releases...

iTKO's theme for Impact 2011 was "Open the Throttle for Agile Composite Application Development," and to commemorate it, we trucked an actual helicopter onto the show floor. Naturally, when you have an R22 dominating your booth, and people playing helo sim games, it makes a lot of people come by and ask "why the helicopter?" iTKO's founder and Chief Geek John Michelsen answers this and other questions in his on-site interview - watch it on the IBMImpact channel here.

Think about it - you wouldn't assemble or add parts to a helicopter without simulating that those changes would fly in the real world. And you wouldn't step into the cockpit without logging some simulator hours. There's just too much risk. The same applies to enterprise applications. With so much at stake, the ONLY way to be agile and rapidly deliver new functionality safely is simulation. This is exactly what LISA does with Service Virtualization for complex apps that IBM customers rely upon. By virtualizing away dependencies, data and performance constraints, teams can develop and test in parallel, at much lower cost, without impacting live systems.

All in all, I have to say this is the best show we've been involved with so far. The quality of the content, discussions and caliber of attendees was high. For us, the highlight of the show was our Customer Session on Wednesday: "Application Virtualization and End-to-End Quality without Constraints at Leading Banks and Telcos with iTKO." A special thanks to the LISA customers who came and stood up to talk about results they experienced - you blew away our expectations. We'll cover some of these results in a future post. But for now, here's a few more photos from the show.

 

 

 

News: iTKO Announces Robert Humphrey as Chief Marketing Officer

DALLAS, TX - April 6, 2011 – iTKO, the leading provider of enterprise application virtualization and optimization solutions, today announced that Robert Humphrey has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer.  Mr. Humphrey will lead iTKO’s worldwide marketing organization, drawing upon his extensive track record and prior experience in both sales and marketing leadership roles in high tech companies.

“iTKO’s virtualization offerings for test, validation and application development are delivering incredible results for our customers,” said Shridhar Mittal, iTKO’s CEO. “Our customers are telling us that with iTKO’s LISA, they are finally able to eliminate risks and deliver faster on application development goals. Robert is the perfect executive to help us take this leadership to a broader audience, to better establish the market and iTKO’s brand awareness within it. His experience and background are a tremendous complement to our management team.”

Mr. Humphrey has held a wide range of executive management positions in high growth technology organizations. He joins iTKO from Infor Global Solutions where he was Chief Marketing Officer of that $2 billion enterprise software company. Prior to that at McAfee, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Marketing, where he led that company’s transition to leadership in the enterprise security marketplace.

Humphrey began his career in technology at Unisys Corporation where he spent 9 years in a variety of sales and sales leadership roles. He then helped The Strifler Group grow over 400% in less than 2 years. At i2 Technologies, he served as its Senior Vice President and led i2’s Marketing and Alliances during that company’s explosive growth from $20 Million in revenue to over $1 Billion in approximately five years. At venture capital firm Insight Capital Partners, Humphrey served as Venture Partner assisting portfolio companies in the areas of sales and marketing. He also served as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Citadel Security Software until it was acquired by McAfee. 

“Customer success is the key to success for any technology company, and the results I’ve seen produced across the software lifecycle at iTKO’s customer sites are astounding,” said Robert Humphrey, iTKO’s CMO. “Our LISA solution is the best kept secret in the software industry, with an engaged user base that includes a ‘who’s who’ of the world’s biggest financial institutions, retailers, telecomm companies, health care companies and government institutions.”

“I’ve had the good fortune to be a part of some great growth businesses in my career, and iTKO is uniquely positioned with innovative products, a productive partner ecosystem, and a talented team needed for impressive growth. I am excited to be part of this opportunity to drive real value and innovation for our customers.”

Read the full press release on iTKO.com.