With RPT on Cloud, software testing teams can use SoftLayer public cloud to generate a load, from any of the dozens of SoftLayer Data Centers all over the world. There is a trial period and since it is pay-as-you-go (PAYGO), if you don’t test in a given month, you don’t pay anything at all. Now we have a new capability which we are calling RPT on Private Cloud, but it does not have an official name yet. With this new capability, you can use VMWare inside your own corporate network to generate potentially huge amounts of traffic against internal or external services or web sites. In this Ask the Experts session, Bill Hudacek, IBM, will give a brief overview of these two cloud options so you can better assess them. Bill and Kent Siefkes, IBM, will answer your questions at the end.

Speakers: Bill Hudacek, Master Certified IT Architect with IBM. Bill has almost 20 years as an IT Architect, most of which involved leading application development projects for IBM customers. He has driven a 'working smart' approach to the realm of Automated API Testing and Service Virtualization (SV) using IBM solutions for Continuous Testing.

Kent Siefkes is a Lead Architect for IBM Rational Performance Tester and Test Workbench, and Business Delivery Leader and Sr. Development Manager for Performance Testing, with over twenty-five years of experience in load testing tools development.

Roger LeBlanc is currently the DevOps Offering Manager for IBM. With his expertise in the design and implementation of Enterprise Portfolio Management business solutions; spanning from the early phases of assessment and analysis through to the design, deployment and adoption of customer solutions, Roger provides a credible perspective and track record for meeting executive customer’s expectations and needs. He is intimately familiar with the issues involved in managing large, project and product centered organizations. Roger has a history in corporate organizational development, strategic planning and budgeting, as well as divisional demand and capacity management and has directly managed the implementation of Portfolio Management solutions in numerous large-scale organizations, such as; Standard and Poor’s, Vodacom, First American Credco, JM Family, CBS, GSIC, Bank of Tokyo, St Jude Medical, Baxter Pharmaceutical, Lawson Products, First Caribbean Bank, and many more.