Troubleshoot Virtualization in All Its Guises: Server, Desktop and SDN.
The benefits of virtualization are well-known and widely accepted, from cost savings and efficiency, to disaster recovery and flexibility. But it’s probably not until you are firmly on the path to virtualization that you start to think about the operational aspects.
Virtualization comes in many guises; the most common is server virtualization. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) – including products such as Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp or VMware View – is a close second. Software-defined networking (SDN), although in its nascence, is also under heavy scrutiny.
Each of these virtualization technologies has one thing in common: they are incredibly difficult to monitor and troubleshoot. In this slide show you will learn how Riverbed Cascade 10.0 provides a single, unified interface to monitor and troubleshoot these many virtualization guises. To learn more please visit: www.riverbed.com/cascade
Given the changing nature of enterprise networking, Riverbed decided to survey attendees of the recent VMworld conference about their companies’ current plans for these emerging technologies. Riverbed surveyed 260 attendees face-to-face, from a variety of roles and with a median company size of 2,300 employees.
Customers and employees complaining about poor network performance or application delays? Want to put an end to the whining? Learn how combining visibility with WAN optimization delivers optimal performance for customers and employees regardless of location by watching this webinar from Riverbed. http://rvbd.ly/1OVbaQw
Preparing Your Customer's Network for the Work from Home TransitionQOS Networks
With the mass transition to at-home workers, customers are forced to quickly adjust or even overhaul their network policies and technology to prepare. With many remote staff that will likely continue to stay working at home, how do you talk about the short and long term network strategy?
Troubleshooting the Most Common Citrix Complaints for Remote WorkerseG Innovations
When remote workers complain that Citrix is slow, where do you initially focus your investigations? What do you analyze and how do you triage now that there are remote working factors to consider?
Join us as George Spiers, Citrix CTP, and Barry Schiffer, Citrix CTP, share their real-world experience to provide you with tips on troubleshooting in the new normal.
In this webinar you'll learn how to:
• Understand the most common issues and how to troubleshoot them like slow logons, slow app/desktop sessions, connectivity issues, and more
• Methodically go about finding the scope, magnitude of impact, and source of the problem
• Investigate issues in the supporting infrastructure (network, AD, virtualization, etc.)
• Troubleshoot with automated and built-for-Citrix monitoring tools
This 2nd-annual research report from DABCC and eG Innovations provides the results of a comprehensive survey of the Citrix user community – exploring the current state of Citrix performance management with a goal of helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community.
The survey results have been compiled into a data-rich, easy-to-digest report to provide you with benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.
Given the changing nature of enterprise networking, Riverbed decided to survey attendees of the recent VMworld conference about their companies’ current plans for these emerging technologies. Riverbed surveyed 260 attendees face-to-face, from a variety of roles and with a median company size of 2,300 employees.
Customers and employees complaining about poor network performance or application delays? Want to put an end to the whining? Learn how combining visibility with WAN optimization delivers optimal performance for customers and employees regardless of location by watching this webinar from Riverbed. http://rvbd.ly/1OVbaQw
Preparing Your Customer's Network for the Work from Home TransitionQOS Networks
With the mass transition to at-home workers, customers are forced to quickly adjust or even overhaul their network policies and technology to prepare. With many remote staff that will likely continue to stay working at home, how do you talk about the short and long term network strategy?
Troubleshooting the Most Common Citrix Complaints for Remote WorkerseG Innovations
When remote workers complain that Citrix is slow, where do you initially focus your investigations? What do you analyze and how do you triage now that there are remote working factors to consider?
Join us as George Spiers, Citrix CTP, and Barry Schiffer, Citrix CTP, share their real-world experience to provide you with tips on troubleshooting in the new normal.
In this webinar you'll learn how to:
• Understand the most common issues and how to troubleshoot them like slow logons, slow app/desktop sessions, connectivity issues, and more
• Methodically go about finding the scope, magnitude of impact, and source of the problem
• Investigate issues in the supporting infrastructure (network, AD, virtualization, etc.)
• Troubleshoot with automated and built-for-Citrix monitoring tools
This 2nd-annual research report from DABCC and eG Innovations provides the results of a comprehensive survey of the Citrix user community – exploring the current state of Citrix performance management with a goal of helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community.
The survey results have been compiled into a data-rich, easy-to-digest report to provide you with benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.
Choosing a Citrix Monitoring Strategy: Key Capabilities and Pitfalls to AvoideG Innovations
Citrix performance monitoring has been gaining a lot of attention and interest. In this presentation, we outline key requirements that any Citrix monitoring solution should support. We analyze the built-in Citrix monitoring tools: Citrix Director, Citrix NetScaler Insight and the Microsoft SCOM management packs and discuss their capabilities and limitations. The need to have at least three different consoles for monitoring a Citrix infrastructure makes monitoring and diagnosis very inefficient. We discuss how the eG Enterprise solution integrates with the built-in Citrix tools and provides 360 degree unified monitoring for a Citrix infrastructure with automated root-cause diagnosis.
Over the last decade, the Citrix portfolio of solutions has dramatically expanded to include Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, XenMobile, Sharefile and Workspace Cloud. And, the use cases for Citrix technologies have also expanded with the needs of the market. Flexwork and telework, BYOD, mobile workspaces, PC refresh alternatives and remote partner access are now common user paradigms that are all supported by Citrix technologies.
To deliver the best possible user experience with all these Citrix technologies, Citrix environments need to be well architected but also well monitored and managed to identify and diagnose problems early on and prevent issues from escalating and impacting end users and business processes.
In this webinar, Doug Brown, founder of DABCC, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the results and implications of the 2nd-annual Citrix Performance Management Survey which was designed to explore the current state of Citrix performance management and helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community. Join us to discover benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.
Beyond Monitoring | Leveraging Unified IT Performance Management for Patient ...eG Innovations
Application and desktop virtualization offer so much promise for smart growth, flexibility and cost savings in healthcare IT today, but along with this potential comes substantial risk. Poor performance and a bad end-user experience can degrade productivity, inflate management costs and, worst of all, negatively impact quality of care and patient satisfaction. At the same time, the healthcare IT infrastructure has increased in both scale and complexity. Hence, administrators struggle to determine when a slowdown happens what is the cause: Citrix? VMware? Storage? Windows? The application?
View these slides from our webinar where, along with HiMSS, Wendy Howard, Infrastructure Engineer with St. Charles Healthcare and Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO with eG Innovations, discussed how implementing unified performance-management powered a transformation from difficult, slow and reactive performance troubleshooting to well-planned, strategic rollouts, proactive maintenance, simple executive reporting and rapid caregiver support.
You wouldn't be surprised if i told you that we do live in interesting times. New business models are created at the same pace today at which older ones are being destroyed. Technology is no longer just an enabler for business, it has become the business for most organizations. In this session we will touch upon some of the challenges and opportunities that the cloud has to offer. The cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) as we know it offers organizations immense opportunity in terms of reducing time to market on delivering engaging customer experiences but with all of that agility a move to the cloud also brings numerous challenges, some obvious and some not very obvious. In this session we will go over challenges engineering systems for the cloud including a case study engineering a complex legacy application for the cloud.
User expectations have changed over the last decade. Customers today expect access to their applications and data from all devices (mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, etc.) with similar performance from any of those devices at all times of the day. In a world of growing complexity where architects and application designers are dependent on 3rd party providers to delivering part (or at time entire) of the application how does one ensure consistent delivery of performance. This presentation provides a view of some of the challenges involved and how not to make costly mistakes.
My Application is Slow | Best Practices for Troubleshooting and PreventioneG Innovations
IT performance management isn’t about monitoring CPU, memory or disk space any more. One of the toughest application performance challenges for any IT administrator is when a user says "my application is slow". You have to be able to quickly determine what the real cause of the problem is - is it in the network, the database, the application, storage? The fact that applications are using multi-tier architectures and being deployed in cloud and virtualized infrastructures only adds to the challenge.
View these slides from our webinar where Frank Ohlhorst, Enterprise IT Analyst & Consultant and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the best practices for troubleshooting and prevention so even before a user complains their application is slow, you can pinpoint exactly where the cause of a problem lies – ensuring quick resolution and a positive user experience.
How to Avoid the Top 7 Mistakes Made When Managing Citrix PerformanceChristine Ackley
Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are two of the most performance-sensitive applications being used in enterprise networks today. Citrix performance management is of critical importance because even a small glitch – anywhere in your infrastructure – can negatively affect the user experience and, ultimately, result in lost business revenue.
These slides are from our recent webinar , ‘How to Avoid the Top 7 Mistakes Made When Managing Citrix Performance’, where Raymond Otero, Manager of End-User Computing, Anexinet – a leading Citrix Gold Solution Advisor, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the top seven mistakes that IT professional make when managing their Citrix-based services as well as the best practices to address and avoid these mistakes to ensure a positive user experience and business continuity.
Ensure The Success of VMware Horizon View DeploymentseG Innovations
VMware Horizon View allows IT organizations to deliver virtual or hosted desktops and applications through a single platform to users. The success of these virtual desktop deployments is linked to the user experience: virtual desktops have to deliver better performance than physical desktops.
This webinar presentation helps you learn how you can unlock the benefits of desktop and application virtualization by enabling your organization to monitor, diagnose and report on the performance of your VMware Horizon View infrastructure.
Why Is My Java App Slow? 5 Monitoring Best Practices for a Great User ExperienceeG Innovations
“My application is slow” is a common complaint heard at the help desk from frustrated users and Java application slow downs are so frequent these days that they cost businesses twice as much as actual downtime. When slowness occurs, IT managers often do not have sufficient visibility and insight to quickly determine what caused, and how to resolve, the issue. Is it due to the network, the database, application code, virtualization or storage?
In this webinar, Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, presented a multi-dimensional approach to performance monitoring and diagnosis that is necessary for ensuring that your Java applications are performing effectively – ensuring quick resolution and a positive user experience. View the slides to discover:
• How to monitor the real user experience of Java applications and be proactively alerted to issues
• How tag-and-follow transaction tracing helps identify application code issues quickly
• Why you need to go beyond transaction tracing for root-cause diagnosis of Java performance issues
• Why insights into the Java container and Java virtual machine performance matter
• How performance correlation across the application and infrastructure tiers is essential for root-cause diagnosis
Technology Primer: Software-Defined Networking and Its Impact on Infrastructu...CA Technologies
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represent a major shift in the way networks will be designed, deployed and managed—requiring changes in infrastructure management tools and practices. This presentation illustrates our vision with use cases under consideration for CA Performance Management, which is designed for managing complex, highly-scaled networks and could be applied in the future to managing Software Defined Networks and integrating with SDN controllers and NFV elements.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
A Deep Dive Into Comprehensive Citrix & VDI Monitoring with eG EnterpriseeG Innovations
Performance management of Citrix technologies has always been a challenge. Determining if user complaints of Citrix logon slowness, session disconnects, screen freezes, etc. are caused by the Citrix stack or by one of the supporting tiers has often been a time consuming and knowledge intensive process. Virtualization of Citrix applications has only added to the challenge.
View this presentation to learn how eG Innovations, one of the earliest Citrix-focused monitoring software vendors, has been adapting its eG Enterprise solution to keep pace with Citrix technology evolution.
2018 Citrix Migration Survey - Industry InsightseG Innovations
With the end of maintenance of Citrix XenApp 6.5 approaching quickly (June 30, 2018), there is increased adoption of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x. eG Innovations and DABCC have conducted a joint survey across 795 Citrix professionals to understand this migration trend, challenges involved, and performance expectations.
Read this survey analysis report and understand how the industry is gearing up for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x adoption.
Choosing the Best Approach for Monitoring Citrix User Experience: Should You ...eG Innovations
A great user experience is key for the success of any Citrix application virtualization or desktop virtualization initiative. To ensure user satisfaction and productivity, Citrix administrators should monitor the user experience proactively, detect times when users are likely to be seeing slowness, pinpoint the cause of such issues and initiate corrective actions to quickly resolve issues, thereby ensuring user satisfaction and productivity.
A key question is where should the monitoring of the Citrix infrastructure be performed from - the network, the server infrastructure, or from the client?
View this presentation to:
• Learn about the different approaches to Citrix user experience monitoring, their benefits and shortcomings
• Hear about a hybrid approach that provides the most cost-effective yet comprehensive monitoring for a Citrix server farm
• See a live demonstration of the hybrid Citrix monitoring approach and its ability to cover all aspects of Citrix user experience
Delivering Java Applications? Ensure Top Performance Every Time, with Intell...John Williams
From pilot to production, eG Enterprise empowers enterprise organizations to deliver a better user experience and increased ROI by delivering comprehensive, converged performance management of Java application services. With optimized Java platforms delivered through Zing, Azul Systems enables Java-based businesses to focus on functionality and long-term lower operating costs rather than daily firefighting. Together, eG Enterprise and Azul Systems offer a proven Java environment designed to optimize the deployment, management, and scale of Java application services.
View these slides from this webinar where Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations and Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul Systems discuss how:
• Java Application Service Management can be simplified and made more cost-effective, while delivering a better user experience
• eG Enterprise enhancements provide insights into Java applications running on the Zing runtime
• eG Enterprise and Azul Zing working together in a production Java installation can reduce costs, optimize deployments and deliver optimum user satisfaction
Best Practices for Troubleshooting Slow Citrix Logon and Ensuring Excellent U...eG Innovations
Slow logon is one of the most common complaints faced by Citrix administrators. It is not easy to uncover the cause of the slowdown as the XenApp/ XenDesktop logon depends on so many factors: client-side connectivity, Active Directory authentication, StoreFront connection, Citrix server-side processing, user profile load, GPO processing, and more.
Check out this SlideShare presentation to learn some best practices for easily diagnosing and troubleshooting Citrix logon problems:
• Find out how the combination of synthetic and real user logon monitoring techniques helps remediate logon issues and ensure exceptional user experience.
• You will also understand how to baseline logon performance and get alerted to deviations proactively.
Digital Workspaces and the Customer ExperienceeG Innovations
Customer experience is driving the digital age, and with the number of digital workers exploding the bar for assuring the digital user experience is quickly being raised — and not every enterprise is ready.
Fragmented monitoring approaches can make it all but impossible to connect the dots between complex, heterogeneous technical ecosystems, and the customer’s digital journey. The digital workspace can be a logical first step towards digital transformation but connecting the dots between ‘X-data’ (experience or XLA data) and ‘O-data’ (operational or SLA data) is not trivial.
In this webinar, John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations and an XLA Master, shows us:
-What role the Experience Level Agreement plays in the digital workspace
-The importance of unified, end-user-oriented views of digital workspace performance
-How converged APM/IPM can accelerate your customer experience journey
Choosing a Citrix Monitoring Strategy: Key Capabilities and Pitfalls to AvoideG Innovations
Citrix performance monitoring has been gaining a lot of attention and interest. In this presentation, we outline key requirements that any Citrix monitoring solution should support. We analyze the built-in Citrix monitoring tools: Citrix Director, Citrix NetScaler Insight and the Microsoft SCOM management packs and discuss their capabilities and limitations. The need to have at least three different consoles for monitoring a Citrix infrastructure makes monitoring and diagnosis very inefficient. We discuss how the eG Enterprise solution integrates with the built-in Citrix tools and provides 360 degree unified monitoring for a Citrix infrastructure with automated root-cause diagnosis.
Over the last decade, the Citrix portfolio of solutions has dramatically expanded to include Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, XenMobile, Sharefile and Workspace Cloud. And, the use cases for Citrix technologies have also expanded with the needs of the market. Flexwork and telework, BYOD, mobile workspaces, PC refresh alternatives and remote partner access are now common user paradigms that are all supported by Citrix technologies.
To deliver the best possible user experience with all these Citrix technologies, Citrix environments need to be well architected but also well monitored and managed to identify and diagnose problems early on and prevent issues from escalating and impacting end users and business processes.
In this webinar, Doug Brown, founder of DABCC, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the results and implications of the 2nd-annual Citrix Performance Management Survey which was designed to explore the current state of Citrix performance management and helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community. Join us to discover benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.
Beyond Monitoring | Leveraging Unified IT Performance Management for Patient ...eG Innovations
Application and desktop virtualization offer so much promise for smart growth, flexibility and cost savings in healthcare IT today, but along with this potential comes substantial risk. Poor performance and a bad end-user experience can degrade productivity, inflate management costs and, worst of all, negatively impact quality of care and patient satisfaction. At the same time, the healthcare IT infrastructure has increased in both scale and complexity. Hence, administrators struggle to determine when a slowdown happens what is the cause: Citrix? VMware? Storage? Windows? The application?
View these slides from our webinar where, along with HiMSS, Wendy Howard, Infrastructure Engineer with St. Charles Healthcare and Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO with eG Innovations, discussed how implementing unified performance-management powered a transformation from difficult, slow and reactive performance troubleshooting to well-planned, strategic rollouts, proactive maintenance, simple executive reporting and rapid caregiver support.
You wouldn't be surprised if i told you that we do live in interesting times. New business models are created at the same pace today at which older ones are being destroyed. Technology is no longer just an enabler for business, it has become the business for most organizations. In this session we will touch upon some of the challenges and opportunities that the cloud has to offer. The cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) as we know it offers organizations immense opportunity in terms of reducing time to market on delivering engaging customer experiences but with all of that agility a move to the cloud also brings numerous challenges, some obvious and some not very obvious. In this session we will go over challenges engineering systems for the cloud including a case study engineering a complex legacy application for the cloud.
User expectations have changed over the last decade. Customers today expect access to their applications and data from all devices (mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, etc.) with similar performance from any of those devices at all times of the day. In a world of growing complexity where architects and application designers are dependent on 3rd party providers to delivering part (or at time entire) of the application how does one ensure consistent delivery of performance. This presentation provides a view of some of the challenges involved and how not to make costly mistakes.
My Application is Slow | Best Practices for Troubleshooting and PreventioneG Innovations
IT performance management isn’t about monitoring CPU, memory or disk space any more. One of the toughest application performance challenges for any IT administrator is when a user says "my application is slow". You have to be able to quickly determine what the real cause of the problem is - is it in the network, the database, the application, storage? The fact that applications are using multi-tier architectures and being deployed in cloud and virtualized infrastructures only adds to the challenge.
View these slides from our webinar where Frank Ohlhorst, Enterprise IT Analyst & Consultant and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the best practices for troubleshooting and prevention so even before a user complains their application is slow, you can pinpoint exactly where the cause of a problem lies – ensuring quick resolution and a positive user experience.
How to Avoid the Top 7 Mistakes Made When Managing Citrix PerformanceChristine Ackley
Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are two of the most performance-sensitive applications being used in enterprise networks today. Citrix performance management is of critical importance because even a small glitch – anywhere in your infrastructure – can negatively affect the user experience and, ultimately, result in lost business revenue.
These slides are from our recent webinar , ‘How to Avoid the Top 7 Mistakes Made When Managing Citrix Performance’, where Raymond Otero, Manager of End-User Computing, Anexinet – a leading Citrix Gold Solution Advisor, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the top seven mistakes that IT professional make when managing their Citrix-based services as well as the best practices to address and avoid these mistakes to ensure a positive user experience and business continuity.
Ensure The Success of VMware Horizon View DeploymentseG Innovations
VMware Horizon View allows IT organizations to deliver virtual or hosted desktops and applications through a single platform to users. The success of these virtual desktop deployments is linked to the user experience: virtual desktops have to deliver better performance than physical desktops.
This webinar presentation helps you learn how you can unlock the benefits of desktop and application virtualization by enabling your organization to monitor, diagnose and report on the performance of your VMware Horizon View infrastructure.
Why Is My Java App Slow? 5 Monitoring Best Practices for a Great User ExperienceeG Innovations
“My application is slow” is a common complaint heard at the help desk from frustrated users and Java application slow downs are so frequent these days that they cost businesses twice as much as actual downtime. When slowness occurs, IT managers often do not have sufficient visibility and insight to quickly determine what caused, and how to resolve, the issue. Is it due to the network, the database, application code, virtualization or storage?
In this webinar, Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, presented a multi-dimensional approach to performance monitoring and diagnosis that is necessary for ensuring that your Java applications are performing effectively – ensuring quick resolution and a positive user experience. View the slides to discover:
• How to monitor the real user experience of Java applications and be proactively alerted to issues
• How tag-and-follow transaction tracing helps identify application code issues quickly
• Why you need to go beyond transaction tracing for root-cause diagnosis of Java performance issues
• Why insights into the Java container and Java virtual machine performance matter
• How performance correlation across the application and infrastructure tiers is essential for root-cause diagnosis
Technology Primer: Software-Defined Networking and Its Impact on Infrastructu...CA Technologies
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represent a major shift in the way networks will be designed, deployed and managed—requiring changes in infrastructure management tools and practices. This presentation illustrates our vision with use cases under consideration for CA Performance Management, which is designed for managing complex, highly-scaled networks and could be applied in the future to managing Software Defined Networks and integrating with SDN controllers and NFV elements.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
A Deep Dive Into Comprehensive Citrix & VDI Monitoring with eG EnterpriseeG Innovations
Performance management of Citrix technologies has always been a challenge. Determining if user complaints of Citrix logon slowness, session disconnects, screen freezes, etc. are caused by the Citrix stack or by one of the supporting tiers has often been a time consuming and knowledge intensive process. Virtualization of Citrix applications has only added to the challenge.
View this presentation to learn how eG Innovations, one of the earliest Citrix-focused monitoring software vendors, has been adapting its eG Enterprise solution to keep pace with Citrix technology evolution.
2018 Citrix Migration Survey - Industry InsightseG Innovations
With the end of maintenance of Citrix XenApp 6.5 approaching quickly (June 30, 2018), there is increased adoption of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x. eG Innovations and DABCC have conducted a joint survey across 795 Citrix professionals to understand this migration trend, challenges involved, and performance expectations.
Read this survey analysis report and understand how the industry is gearing up for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x adoption.
Choosing the Best Approach for Monitoring Citrix User Experience: Should You ...eG Innovations
A great user experience is key for the success of any Citrix application virtualization or desktop virtualization initiative. To ensure user satisfaction and productivity, Citrix administrators should monitor the user experience proactively, detect times when users are likely to be seeing slowness, pinpoint the cause of such issues and initiate corrective actions to quickly resolve issues, thereby ensuring user satisfaction and productivity.
A key question is where should the monitoring of the Citrix infrastructure be performed from - the network, the server infrastructure, or from the client?
View this presentation to:
• Learn about the different approaches to Citrix user experience monitoring, their benefits and shortcomings
• Hear about a hybrid approach that provides the most cost-effective yet comprehensive monitoring for a Citrix server farm
• See a live demonstration of the hybrid Citrix monitoring approach and its ability to cover all aspects of Citrix user experience
Delivering Java Applications? Ensure Top Performance Every Time, with Intell...John Williams
From pilot to production, eG Enterprise empowers enterprise organizations to deliver a better user experience and increased ROI by delivering comprehensive, converged performance management of Java application services. With optimized Java platforms delivered through Zing, Azul Systems enables Java-based businesses to focus on functionality and long-term lower operating costs rather than daily firefighting. Together, eG Enterprise and Azul Systems offer a proven Java environment designed to optimize the deployment, management, and scale of Java application services.
View these slides from this webinar where Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations and Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul Systems discuss how:
• Java Application Service Management can be simplified and made more cost-effective, while delivering a better user experience
• eG Enterprise enhancements provide insights into Java applications running on the Zing runtime
• eG Enterprise and Azul Zing working together in a production Java installation can reduce costs, optimize deployments and deliver optimum user satisfaction
Best Practices for Troubleshooting Slow Citrix Logon and Ensuring Excellent U...eG Innovations
Slow logon is one of the most common complaints faced by Citrix administrators. It is not easy to uncover the cause of the slowdown as the XenApp/ XenDesktop logon depends on so many factors: client-side connectivity, Active Directory authentication, StoreFront connection, Citrix server-side processing, user profile load, GPO processing, and more.
Check out this SlideShare presentation to learn some best practices for easily diagnosing and troubleshooting Citrix logon problems:
• Find out how the combination of synthetic and real user logon monitoring techniques helps remediate logon issues and ensure exceptional user experience.
• You will also understand how to baseline logon performance and get alerted to deviations proactively.
Digital Workspaces and the Customer ExperienceeG Innovations
Customer experience is driving the digital age, and with the number of digital workers exploding the bar for assuring the digital user experience is quickly being raised — and not every enterprise is ready.
Fragmented monitoring approaches can make it all but impossible to connect the dots between complex, heterogeneous technical ecosystems, and the customer’s digital journey. The digital workspace can be a logical first step towards digital transformation but connecting the dots between ‘X-data’ (experience or XLA data) and ‘O-data’ (operational or SLA data) is not trivial.
In this webinar, John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations and an XLA Master, shows us:
-What role the Experience Level Agreement plays in the digital workspace
-The importance of unified, end-user-oriented views of digital workspace performance
-How converged APM/IPM can accelerate your customer experience journey
Watch "VDI Performance Assessment - Moving Desktop Virtualization from Test to Best" and learn how a VDI performance assessment can help you baseline your current VDI performance, understand critical bottlenecks, and identify how to optimize your virtual desktop infrastructure for scalability, cost efficiency and peak performance.
Build Scanning into Your Web Based Business Applicationbgalusha
Learn about the new EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit, a software developer kit (SDK) that allows web application developers to quickly add scanning and imaging functionality directly to their web-based business applications. Learn how partners are leveraging the toolkit to deliver Web-based scanning solutions.
Join the discussion with Andrew Hay, Chief Evangelist of CloudPassage and Dave Shackleford, Senior Vice President, Research and Chief Technology Officer of IANS.
In this presentation, we will discuss:
- How compliance is affected by using private, hybrid, and public cloud environments
- What to consider when researching providers who offer "PCI-compliant" clouds
- Recommendations for improving compliance and security posture in the cloud
HP Blade matrix, HP Cloud a HP Virtual systém (prehľad HP virtualizačných rie...ASBIS SK
Konferencia Virtual Info jeseň 2011
HP, Ľuboš Šenkery, Michal Sapák
www. virtualinfo.sk
Video k tejto prezentácii si môžete pozrieť na: http://bit.ly/pnG0sf
Get ready to deliver Windows desktops and apps like a cloud provider with Pro...Citrix
At Synergy in San Francisco, Citrix announced a bold new project aimed at enabling enterprises and service providers to deliver Windows desktops and apps as a true cloud service. Project Avalon promises to revolutionise the delivery of IT services by enabling enterprise customers to build and leverage private, public and hybrid clouds to deliver access to desktops, apps and data anywhere. Join us to learn what you can do to prepare for Project Avalon.
The market is crowded with SD-WAN providers—from pure-play startups to more established infrastructure and WAN specialists. With so many vendors, each offering different SD-WAN features and functions, how do you find the solution that's right for your organization?
Before you engage with SD-WAN providers or assemble your shortlist, learn how to choose the right solution for your organization and evaluate the four critical factors of SD-WAN: architecture, performance, security, and provisioning/management.
Learn more: https://rvbd.ly/2vmZoNW
Are your apps chasing users away? How to deliver superior Digital ExperiencesRiverbed Technology
Users expect flawless digital experiences when using your apps or services, regardless of device or location. If you aren't providing that stellar experience, you run the risk of chasing customers away or hampering your own employee productivity. And, with cloud technology and Agile development, complexity continues to skyrocket.
To be successful, IT and business stakeholders need digital experience insights to ensure that every business-critiall app keeps their customers happy and their employees productive. This requires a comprehensive Digital Experience Management (DEM) strategy.
This presentation is an abridged version of a webinar with Riverbed and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) held in September, 2017. The webinar discusses:
- Must-have's to roll out successful DEM practices
- Critial components of an effective DEM solution
- Expected business results and outcomes
- Pitfalls to avoid along the way
For more information see: https://www.riverbed.com/forms/events/are-your-apps-chasing-users-away.html
Digital Experience Management—The Key to Delivering Exceptional Digital Exper...Riverbed Technology
Digital Transformation (DX) is driving organizations to adopt Digital Experience Management (DEM) best practices. Companies hoping to provide the best digital experiences to their end users are often met with challenges arising from disjointed point solutions and a lack of unified insights and management tools across all infrastructure types.
With problematic application lifecycles, ineffective tools, and complex application delivery architectures, enterprises must rethink their existing tools and methodologies to ensure their digital channels, applications, and services are optimized for business and end-user success.
This Riverbed presentation covers the following topics:
- What is Digital Experience Management (DEM)?
- Why DEM is important to organizations?
- What roadblocks and hurdles exist?
- How Riverbed's unified DEM solution is different
- What are some next steps you can take to achieve success with DEM?
Find out more about Digital Experience Management with Riverbed here http://rvbd.ly/2y0MHpt
If you’re planning to move applications to the cloud, watch this webinar to learn how Asurion, an insurance provider with 280 million customers worldwide, undertook their cloud migration. Juliet Orgain, Senior Manager of IT at Asurion and Riverbed’s Krish Badrinarayanan walk through the stages of successful cloud adoption. Watch the webinar: http://rvbd.ly/2tL1gdx
The dynamic nature of SaaS applications can slow performance due to the distance between the cloud and users. Riverbed accelerates the delivery of SaaS applications by up to 33x. Join us for this session to find out how you can accelerate applications and manage the delivery of business-critical data and content from your SaaS provider overcoming application latency, control quality of service, remove loss of visibility and bandwidth constraints. http://rvbd.ly/2hpKls6
In a world of business that has increasingly become more and more distributed, and with our relationship with data having changed, we need to begin expanding the way we look at innovation in IT from solely focusing on the data center, to considering the requirements, challenges and costs associated with the edge. This presentation focuses on extending data center investments to all remote sites, and new opportunities to connect IT with today's business requirements through a Software-Defined Edge.
Riverbed conducted a remote office/branch office IT survey at EMC World on May 3, 2016. The surveys were taken on the show floor and 183 people took part. The number of employees at their locations range from less than 500 to over 10,000. http://rvbd.ly/1YvjwTI
This presentation provides a brief overview of APM solutions for the Azure cloud computing platform. We identify three challenges unique to cloud computing which APM can address, and we summarize which APM techniques can be applied in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS application architectures. To illustrate APM techniques for IaaS and PaaS we look at a variety APM offers in the Azure marketplace, including Riverbed AppInternals, Microsoft Application Insights, and NewRelic. To illustrate APM techniques for SaaS, we look at how SharePoint Online can be instrumented using JavaScript injection. This presentation was prepared and delivered by Ian Downard to the Portland Azure User Group on March 28th, 2016.
According to EMA, most companies use 6 or more monitoring tool for a fragmented, piecemeal approach to monitoring. Riverbed SteelCentral is the only end-to-end performance management platform that blends user experience, infrastructure, application, and network monitoring for a holistic view of performance.
Yesterday’s siloed approach to performance monitoring is failing the needs of today’s hybridized and software-defined environments, necessitating a new, unified and blended view of performance domains. In order to effectively address these specific challenges, you need a holistic approach to performance management that converges network, application, infrastructure and end-user experience monitoring into a single interface and also integrates at the domain level. Riverbed SteelCentral provides that platform. http://rvbd.ly/1PnDaxT
Examine common application performance problems hiding in plain sight. See how you can quickly remove the noise, pinpoint root cause and fix these problems once and for all. Watch the webinar replay: http://rvbd.ly/1QGxMBs
Learn how Intuit created an application-aware network performance platformRiverbed Technology
Learn how Intuit utilized Riverbed and Big Switch’s integrated solution and built a scalable application-aware network performance management platform for best-of-breed monitoring and analysis. To watch the full webinar, go here: http://rvbd.ly/1VBKl6S
Riverbed® SteelCentral™ NetSensor provides agentless infrastructure component monitoring and synthetic testing to deliver a comprehensive picture of how infrastructure is affecting network and application performance. http://rvbd.ly/1LNL1S5
An industry-leading analyst discusses how you can take control of application performance and provide superior end-user experiences. Then, you’ll hear how a major US healthcare provider eliminated sporadic performance outages that affected its public-facing website, and prevented revenue loss and many hundreds of hours in support costs. To learn more, watch the webcast replay: http://rvbd.ly/1JGz1ke
Or to learn more about AppInternals, visit: http://rvbd.ly/1IsjC5t
Expand the Business Value of Riverbed Solutions with New Optimize ServicesRiverbed Technology
Our new Optimize Services focus on driving the business outcomes customers expect by maximizing solution performance, ensuring widespread adoption, and creating more value from the Riverbed Application Performance Platform. To learn more, visit: http://rvbd.ly/1eK5gDO
Introducing, SteelCentral Portal, a breakthrough software solution for managing application performance in today’s hybrid IT environments. For the first time, companies are able to blend performance information from network, end user experience, and application domains into a simple source of truth for end-to-end application visibility, eliminating the finger pointing that occurs among siloed teams who have a limited view into only their domain expertise.
Today’s IT organizations are being pressured to do more with less. Manage more applications, data, users, and devices with fewer internal resources. Execute complex IT initiatives on flat, year-over-year budgets. And above all, extract as much value from the IT investments they’ve already made.
It’s this last notion of getting more value that is the focus of our discussion today. Riverbed customers should always expect more value. And we’re committed to ensuring they get it.
Riverbed FORCE brings you three technology-packed days to give you the tools and know-how you need to make your Riverbed platform perform at its peak. FORCE offers attendees thought-provoking keynotes from industry experts, free technical certification testing, a Technology Partner Pavilion, hands-on labs, and 60 scheduled technical sessions that deliver in-depth training with hybrid architectures and solutions. Learn more at: http://www.riverbed.com/riverbedforce-2014/
Ensuring the compliance, resiliency, and availability of business-critical ne...Riverbed Technology
This presentations highlights how the SteelCentral Network Performance and Configuration Management (NPCM) product family reduces the time and effort spent manually collecting and reconciling data from multiple sources to document the status, dependencies and configuration of the enterprise network by helping separate teams share information.
• Reduce network outages with customized, automated audit reports, detecting policy violations before they affect service availability
• Reduce outages caused by misconfiguration for infrastructure that’s too important and too complex to be managed manually, using automated network configuration analysis
• Plan for network resiliency despite network changes and growth without making any risky changes to the production network
Learn more at: http://www.riverbed.com/npm
With SteelCentral AppInternals and SteelCentral AppResponse, Riverbed provides products designed to help IT monitor, troubleshoot, and diagnose application performance problems, no matter where end users are located or how they access the IT infrastructure. To better understand the business value of Riverbed application performance management (APM) solutions, IDC recently conducted a study of Riverbed customers, examining how they deployed and are using APM tools and the benefits delivered to their IT staff and the broader business.
Leveraging its strengths in the traditional network performance management (NPM) market and its 2012 acquisition of OPNET Technologies, Riverbed is taking important steps to credibly reposition itself as a total performance management platform provider. http://www.riverbed.com/apm
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
4. Virtualization and Cloud Are Top Executive Initiatives
Which broad IT initiatives are driving current priorities in
monitoring/managing networks and networked application performance?
Server Virtualization
Virtual/hosted desktop
Data Center Consolidation
Application performance optimization
VoIP and IP Telephony-related initiatives
Public/Hybrid Cloud initiatives
Internal cloud (services) transformation
Cross-domain Security initiatives
ITIL or best-practices initiatives
Videoconferencing, including telepresence
Individual high-profile application rollouts
Client end-point mobility
SOA/Web Services applications
IP-TV and streaming video-related…
Other (Please specify)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Feb 2012, Sample Size = 162 IT Staff Executive Level
This learning module discusses the new features and functionality of Cascade 10.0, includingNew support for VDIand network virtualization that makes Cascade the only solution capable of managing performance across all virtual infrastructure: VDI, server, and network virtualization How new VDI and CIFS monitoring and troubleshooting enhance the joint value between Cascade and Steelhead / GraniteIntroducing Cascade Profiler Virtual Edition and Cascade Gateway Virtual Edition, which, with the previously announced Cascade Shark Virtual Edition (formerly Virtual Cascade Shark), completes the virtualization of the product family,How and why MSPs and SIs should use the virtual solutions to drive new services around application-aware network performance managementAnd lastly, a quick overview of other important enhancements that don’t fall into any of these broad categories
Virtualization brings with it great promise of flexibility, cost savings, and security. Most importantly it allows IT infrastructure to dynamically adapt to the needs of applications. This value comes with a cost in the form of increased complexity for Network and IT operations. With this announcement, the Riverbed® Cascade® product family extends its leadership in virtualization monitoring. It is the first and only application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution to provide comprehensive and unified visibility across the WAN, LAN, virtualized desktop and server environments, and software-defined networks (SDNs) to meet the rapidly changing needs of IT organizations. The latest version of Cascade products builds upon our announcement last February using Cascade Shark VE to gain visiblity into traffic traversing the virtual switch and adds the ability to monitor and troubleshoot Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp and VMware® View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and also to embrace VMware VXLAN-based software-defined networking without sacrificing operational control. In addition, the Cascade product family is now available as a fully virtualized software solution to enable enterprises, government organizations, public clouds, and other managed service providers to easily deploy and use Cascade products in virtual environments. It enables network operations teams to find and fix network and application performance issues, no matter the architecture or where they are in their virtualization journey, including: Traditional networksVirtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)Server virtualizationFully virtualized data centers using SDNAny combination of the above
So why is virtualization such a hot topic with us … because it’s such a hot topic with you – network managers and executives…A recent Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) survey indicates that virtualization in all forms is a top initiative with IT executives and staff. Server virtualization is once again the top initiative and virtual/hosted desktop jumped into second place in 2012. Cloud ranks pretty high up there as well.
The problem is…y’all don’t have adequate visibility to monitor or troubleshoot problems that arise in these environments.Virtual networking deployed as part of server virtualization increasingly affects network managers, their tools, and their practices. Only 62% of respondents indicated that network engineers/operators have access to virtual network elements within virtual server environments for monitoring/troubleshooting visibility, and only 58% have access for configuration and control. As can be seen in this Figure, the situation specific to visibility into these environments has improved incrementally from early 2011 to late 2011; however, 72% of respondents still reported needing better insights.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) holds the promise of simplifying IT infrastructure, management, and data security. Cascade Pilot now support ICA and PCoIP, two popular VDI protocols used by Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp, and VMware View, respectively. With this release, customers gain visibility into the virtual channels of these VDI protocols, including their bandwidth consumption and priorities. Customers can also see the latency of critical actions such as print, keystrokes, mouse movements, file sharing, and screen refreshes. Having detailed visibility into specific VDI actions is not only critical to troubleshooting issues, but is also essential for optimizing the performance of these applications across both the WAN and LAN.
Businesses want the promise of dynamic, on-demand cloud based IT. While vSphere abstracts compute capacity from the server hardware to create virtual pools of resources that can be consumed as a service in a matter of minutes, today’s traditional network architecture prevents organizations from reaching the full potential of virtualization. Provisioning of networks and network services such as security are still cumbersome and slow and can take days to set up. Even then, the opportunity to introduce errors is extremely high and changes to shared network services can have unintended consequences.Software-defined networking (SDN) is one of the corner stones of the software-defined data center (SDDC) that is changing the paradigm of data center infrastructure. SDN allows for the quick and dynamic configuration of virtual or overlay networks, which enable the creation of a virtual data center (VDC) –an isolated collection of all necessary compute, storage, networking, and security resources – in a matter of minutes.
VMware® Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) is the key to deploying software-defined networks with the same simplicity and operational ease of virtual machines today. Because VXLAN tunnels traffic on top of the physical network, creating an “overlay network”, it separates the virtualization and network layers to enable the following benefits:Ease of network provisioning – VXLAN automatically provisions virtual overlay networks and their associated services as needed for virtual datacenters – with no impact to the physical network or involvement of the network team.Security – Virtual overlay networks are isolated from each other and the physical network, addressing security and compliance requirements while using shared infrastructure, and enabling the cost savings associated with it. Scalability – Enables virtual networks and virtual data centers to span physical boundaries, optimizing compute resource utilization across clusters, pods and even geographically separated datacenters and allowing organizations to build virtual data centers anywhere, anytime based on business needs rather than technical limitations.
While VLXAN extends the benefits of virtualization from server workloads to entire virtual data centers, on its own it does not address the performance management challenge of virtual environments. While monitoring and troubleshooting network performance with server virtualization has been problematic enough for network operations, the introduction of virtual overlay networks compounds this even further. VXLAN traffic is UDP tunneled, creating a total loss of visibility for the network team, making it impossible to Isolate overlay traffic from physical networkManage the overlay traffic’s impact on the physical networkUnderstand tunnel and overlay network setup/tear downAdditionally, different overlay networks can have overlapping address spaces, further compounding troubleshooting.Left unaddressed, this lack of visibility can create a barrier for the adoption of VXLAN, SDN and virtual data centers.
Realizing the ability to monitor, troubleshoot and report on network and application performance is a necessary and critical component for the full adoption of VXLAN, Riverbed and VMware have joined together to provide this capability. The two companies have jointly developed the new VXLAN-aware IPFIX format, which provides performance information about virtual overlay network traffic and associated UDP-encapsulated traffic. This new VXLAN functionality extends Cascade’s performance management capabilities from monitoring the virtual switch/VDS within vSphere to encompassing virtual data centers and their associated overlay networks. Riverbed Cascade is the only application-aware network performance management (aaNPM) solution to enable IT organizations to confidently embrace SDN by enabling network operations teams to: Control and understand virtual overlay network performanceMonitor and troubleshoot virtual data centers and the physical network in a single solutionProvide VDC owners isolated views into their virtual data center performance and SLAs
Other NPM solutions without VXLAN visibility can only see how much VXLAN traffic is tunneled across the physical network, leaving them virtually blind when it comes to troubleshooting problems.CLICK: Cascade can provide details into top applicationsCLICK: How virtual machines (VMs) converseCLICK: How virtual tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) interactCLICK:Top virtual networks from an enterprise perspective, and more…
In a physical network environment, it is relatively easy to instrument it so you can monitor application performance as the transaction traverses between the web server, the application server, database, etc. CLICK: Virtualization provides significant headaches for IT operations teams. Once an application transaction enters the virtualized server NetOps loses visibility into the transaction. In fact, some transactional traffic never hits the physical network so it can never be monitored. Without adequate visibility into the end-to-end application flow, IT often cannot troubleshooting problems occurring in virtualized environments.CLICK: Compounding this issue, according to Gartner, is the fact that virtual switches today are typically managed by the server administrator, which is challenging the existing separation of duties because of unclear or incorrect network responsibilities and skills related to managing virtual switches embedded within hypervisors on physical servers. Today, almost all hypervisors have limited networking capabilities. But as virtual switches adopt control features similar to physical switches, the risk of inconsistent configuration between virtual and physical switches will increase, unless network policies are managed by the same organization and by people with the appropriate skill set. CLICK: Cascade Shark Virtual Edition monitors all inter-VM traffic crossing virtual switch, providing real-time and historical visibility into virtualize server environments. Itsimultaneously captures and stores packet data on the server or SAN while sending flow data to Cascade Profiler to provide unified visibility into performance of multi-tier apps across physical & virtual network.
Almost every enterprise big and small is moving very strongly toward a more fully virtualized IT environment. Industry analysts Gartner, Forrester, ESG and EMA all point to this transformation as top priorities for CIOs. Virtualization brings with it great promises of flexibility, cost savings, data and intellectual property centralization and most importantly enablingIT infrastructure to dynamically adapt to the needs of applications that drive a business’ top and bottom line. This value comes with a cost however in the form of significant complexity for the Network and IT operations staff who are tasked with ensuring the performance of applications and the networks they run over. CLICK: With this new release Cascade provides network and IT operations with a complete solution for managing network and application performance issues across all major virtualization areas: Server Virtualization, VDI and SDN.
Like milk and cookies, Cascade and Steelhead solutions are better together…
By no means it is required to purchase Steelhead WAN optimization with Cascade performance management, but for those IT organizations that do, they gain addition synergies and additional benefits.First of all, all Steelhead products can send CascadeFlow, an optimization-aware version of NetFlow, to Cascade Profiler, which provides rich details into what applications are using the WAN, response time information, QoS classifications, and optimization-aware reporting.And secondly, nearly all Steelhead products running RiOS 7.0 or greater (with the exception of the EX line at the time of publishing) have on-demand packet capture capabilities built in using the embedded Shark functionality. Embedded Shark functionality provides an easy-to-use and convenient method for troubleshooting performance problems at remote sites. All that is needed to take advantage of the on-demand packet capture on Steelhead is Cascade Pilot (version 3.0 or later). Cascade Pilot, the graphical user interface for analyzing packet data and transactions, functions as the management console, allowing you to schedule,start and stop packet capture jobs remotely. Bottom line: Every customer with Steelheads running RiOS 7.0 should purchase Cascade Pilot! This allows them to take advantage of the built-in troubleshooting capabilities while getting their first exposure to Cascade! Remember you only need one Cascade Pilot license per user not per Steelhead.
CIFS protocol supportThe Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a network protocol that is commonly used by Microsoft operating systems and applications like SharePoint for sharing files across the network. CIFS is widely used because of its simplicity, but it is very “chatty” and inefficient, especially across the WAN. Cascade Pilot provides visibility into CIFS transactions, enabling customers to measure and analyze CIFS end-user activity; monitor application-level transactions by file, directory, and user; provide metrics on commonly used files, transfer times, and errors. Customers using Steelhead® WAN optimization products to accelerate CIFS will benefit from understanding file transfer times and optimization benefits.Support for VDI applications: Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View Cascade Pilot now also supports ICA and PCoIP, two popular VDI protocols used by Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp, and VMware View, respectively. With this release, customers gain visibility into the virtual channels of these VDI protocols, including their bandwidth consumption and priorities. Customers can also see the latency of critical actions such as print, keystrokes, mouse movements, file sharing, and screen refreshes. Having detailed visibility into specific VDI actions is not only critical to troubleshooting issues, but is also essential for optimizing the performance of these applications across both the WAN and LAN.
Cascade Pilot provides rich information into CIFS performance, including:CIFS performance by tree, command, file, request, or serverCLICK:Errors by request & error distributionCLICK: Top CIFS commands, Top trees and files, Top trees and files – requests, and Top client/serversCLICK: Transaction sequence diagram
Virtualizing the Cascade product lineCascade (v.10.0) completes the virtualization of the Cascade family that was started with Cascade® Shark Virtual Edition. Cascade® Profiler appliances and Cascade® Gateway appliances are now available as virtual solutions, providing deployment flexibility for managed service providers or enterprises looking to embrace virtualization or SDN.Cascade Profiler Virtual Edition is a virtualized version of the Cascade Profiler appliance for centralized reporting and analysis. Cascade Gateway Virtual Edition is a virtualized version of the Cascade Gateway flow collector. Both are available on VMware ESXi version 4.1 and 5.0.
Cascade 10.0 also provides a number of additional enhancements95th percentile reporting in Cascade Profiler – New bandwidth-intensive applications such as video, social media, etc. are consuming bandwidth and stressing the network. Network administrators need an accurate way to identify high link utilization. Average and peak link utilization either under state or overstate the real link utilization. 95th percentile is a widely used calculation for evaluating the regular and sustained utilization of a network connection as it better reflects the required capacity of the link in question than other methods (such as average or maximum rate) and is useful for network capacity planning and billing. Although 95th percentile reporting is the most commonly used metric, this feature is easily configurable to support other thresholds.Cascade Pilot View Editor – Cascade Pilot views are rich, visual representations of application and network data that helps to streamline packet analysis and troubleshooting. Cascade Pilot View Editor introduces the ability to customize existing views or build new ones.Pcap-ng support – Pcap-ng is the new default packet capture file format for Wireshark® software. It is more complete and flexible than its predecessor (pcap) and includes support for nanosecond granularity. Cascade Shark and Cascade Pilot products now support pcap-ng files by default, allowing users to better leverage new Wireshark capabilities by storing capture files in pcap-ng format with nanosecond granularity.1GB fiber NIC card that supports both SX and LX transceivers is now available for use with all Cascade Shark appliances.Cascade Shark system diagnostics provides disk status, SNMP polling, and email alerting on the health of a Cascade Shark device, disk, and management interface, letting you know immediately in the rare event of a system problem.
To summarize what you heard today:Cascade 10.0 provides a single, unified solution for managing performance of the entire virtual infrastructure: desktop, server, and network virtualization (in addition to the physical network, of course)Cascade’s new VDI and CIFS monitoring and troubleshooting further enhances the joint value with Steelhead and Granite The fully virtualized Cascade product family provides deployment flexibility for enterprises and managed service providers/systems integrators