voke Market Mover Blog

We are excited to launch a survey on one of the most topical IT agenda items – security operations automation. Security threats are a 24X7X365 concern for every single enterprise, regardless of size or type of business. Enterprises are worried about the business risk caused by un-remediated security vulnerabilities, compliance challenges, and configuration issues. We want to hear from you! How welcoming is your organization to hackers? Do IT operations professionals have enough information to remediate security vulnerabilities? Are IT security and IT operations working together? Are hackers “welcome” in your systems, infrastructure, and applications? We want to collect as much data as possible by September 25, 2016. So, take the voke Market Snapshot survey on security operations automation here . At the end of the survey you will have the opportunity to register for a complimentary copy of the report for your own personal use. Thank you in advance for your participation – ...

Releasing software, the last step to getting your software creation to your customers! Every team releases software differently, but everyone wants the release to be a success. So, regardless of how you release, how frequently you release, or how much you know about what you are releasing – we want your opinion! voke , the analyst firm focused on the edge of innovation, is conducting research on the topic of release management. We are looking for people exactly like you to share your opinion on software release management.  Please help out by letting us know what you think. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. Click here to share your story on release management. t

voke is excited to share the results of our second and most recent research on service virtualization – the voke Market Snapshot TM  Report: Service Virtualization . The latest research was announced on January 22, 2015. This most recent data was collected from over 500 participants from August – October 2014. Survey participants told us how they are using service virtualization, why they adopted it, their general thoughts about service virtualization, the challenges they face with service virtualization, and the benefits of service virtualization.  This research shows that service virtualization is no longer a nascent technology with a practitioner following. Service virtualization is now a proven technology with visibility at all levels of the organization. Change agents, C-level executives, and practitioners alike find value in the measurable and quick ROI service virtualization brings. Full ROI details achieved by participants provided in the report include: Reduced...

The analysts at voke are embarking on a busy time of year! Join voke founder, Theresa Lanowitz, on October 28, 2014 at 8:30AM Pacific / 11:30AM Eastern to discuss “ The Hidden Cost of Rework ”. Each and every software project has defects – that is just a fact. However, the longer the defect is ignored, the more expensive it is to remediate. Join Theresa Lanowitz of voke and Jon Jarboe of Coverity to learn how to identify defects earlier and reduce the cost of rework involved with every software project. Register here to learn about “The Hidden Cost of Rework”  Next up, voke founder, Theresa Lanowitz, will be the keynote presenter at the Cognizant Quality Engineering and Assurance Summit in Sydney, Australia! The theme of the event is “The Future of Quality: Challenge the Conventional Status Quo”. The event is Thursday, November 6. If you are in the ANZ region, register here .  Theresa’s keynote will discuss “Software Quality in the Sound Bite Era”. Join T...

We are running a market survey on service virtualization and really want to know what you think of service virtualization . Are you using it, have you evaluated it, or is the technology brand new to you? We want to hear from you! Take the voke survey on service virtualization.   Service virtualization is one of those technologies that comes along once in a generation and makes a real difference on many levels. Service virtualization helps remove the constraints associated with the classic cost, quality, schedule timeline. Please let us know why you like service virtualization, what the benefits of service virtualization are, how you are using service virtualization across your software supply chain. Let us know by taking the survey.     This survey consists of a combination of multiple choice and optional short answer questions to provide you the opportunity to influence our research and the overall market based on your experiences. The areas of foc...

Are you aware of what your cost of rework is for your software? Yes, the very software that runs your business and is an integral part of your brand promise. Most organizations are either not aware or not interested in what the cost of rework means. However, this cavalier stance to the cost of rework is dangerous. Each and every software project has an associated cost of rework – that is the cost involved with removing defects. The later in the lifecycle a defect is discovered, the more expensive it is to remediate. Defects create the hidden cost of rework in every software project. The new voke Strategic Brief TM Report: Reducing the Cost of Rework highlights: The business impact of defect leakage with real-world use cases The cost of rework models for both Agile and non-Agile projects Ways to test earlier to reduce rework and its costs The Strategic BriefTM Report: Reducing the Cost of Rework is available here or at www.vokeinc.com for su...

In my last post I asked for your opinions on virtual and cloud-based labs.   Thank you so much for letting us know what you think of virtual and cloud-based labs! On August 21, 2014 voke officially published its Market Snapshot TM Report: Virtual and Cloud-based Labs. The full report is available here  or at www.vokeinc.com to subscribers. While virtual and cloud-based lab technology has been widely available since 2005, we still see development and test teams wait for protracted periods of time to gain access to the physical environments needed. From our research, we now know that on average, teams wait for 18 days to gain access to the required physical environments needed for development or testing. And, these teams that wait to access physical environments also have restrictions on environment access time. This type of lost productivity is easily remedied with virtual or cloud-based labs. The full report contains an abundance of data to help ma...

One of the most frustrating hurdles to overcome in the software lifecycle is the availability of a lab for testing. Physical test labs are expensive to build and expensive to maintain. To use a physical test lab, teams must schedule time well in advance, wait for access, and hurry up and get out of the lab for the next team. There has to be a better way of testing in a production-like environment. Well, there is. Virtualization helped us solve this problem. By using a virtual lab or a dev/test cloud, testing teams have an environment as close to production for use at any time for as long as needed. These virtual labs or dev/test clouds remove provisioning bottlenecks associated with physical labs, give testers an affordable production-like environment, and eliminate the phrase “it works on my machine”. Yes, virtual labs or dev/test clouds bring about peace between developers and testers. With virtual labs or dev/test clouds, developers are able to easily re-create a defect ...

HP Announces Intent to Acquire Network Virtualization Business and Technology of Shunra  I s HP Getting Serious About Lifecycle Virtualization? In a quiet blog post on the evening of March 4, 2014, HP announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the network virtualization business and technology of Shunra , a current HP partner. The HP blog post continues to outline the benefits the Shunra technology will bring to its mobile software testing business. The blog post ends with an almost cryptic mention of expanding the use of the Shunra technology to other HP products and services such as service virtualization . Service virtualization, indeed, is where the Shunra technology will mesh well with HP offferings. Service virtualization is defined by voke as: Enabling development and test teams to simulate and model their dependencies of unavailable or limited services. Removes constraints and wait times frequently experienced by development and test teams...

In 2012, voke published economic models to evaluate the hidden costs of software projects.  Our key findings show that since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2009, the average cost of software projects is rising dramatically, this is in spite of smaller teams working shorter durations.  At the same time, rework costs remain high or unknown and high profile software failures continue to make headlines daily. Organizations must understand how defects create a hidden cost of rework in every software project and how these costs manifest differently in Agile and Non-Agile projects. Given the impact of catastrophic software failures on the brand, we should be witnessing a movement toward increased quality, not a reactionary call for more testing after the software has shipped. Software engineering professionals are familiar with the concept of Cost of Quality , or more specifically, the cost involved with removing defects , essentially the cost of “rework .” The prem...