Did you know that 50 percent of desktop virtualization initiatives fail?
Most challenges are due to poor user satisfaction, poor performance and
escalating costs. With such an important initiative, you cannot afford to
take a 50/50 chance for success.
Join the webinar "VDI Best Practices - How to Ensure a Great
Customer Experience When Deploying Client Virtualization" to increase your odds of project success and
ensure user satisfaction from day one. You’ll learn from virtualization
expert Roy Francis of FusionStorm how to successfully deploy desktop
virtualization projects and overcome user problems.
Learn how to better prepare for your desktop virtualization initiative,
and then once deployed how to ensure a great user experience. We will
discuss:
• The pitfalls to avoid when implementing desktop virtualization
• Tips and tricks for overcoming user challenges
• Considerations for migrating to XenApp 6.5 and Windows 2008
• How to address performance and scalability concerns
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is still a relatively new technology. Most people are either unaware or have only a brief idea about this emerging technology. This Slide share will provide your 12 points which you must know before implementing VDI Technology in your business.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is still a relatively new technology. Most people are either unaware or have only a brief idea about this emerging technology. This Slide share will provide your 12 points which you must know before implementing VDI Technology in your business.
VxRail Appliance - Modernize your infrastructure and accelerate IT transforma...Maichino Sepede
An overview of the VxRail Appliance, including what’s new with VxRail on the 14th generation PowerEdge server, and advancements in the VxRail 4.5 software.
RDS & Windows Virtual Desktop - Desktop in 2019+Marcel Meurer
Time and technologies are changing - What's about remote desktops and apps with RDS 2019 and Windows Virtual Desktop?
My presentation at the #CDCGermany in 2019 Frankfurt/Hanau
Nutanix se despacha en días, y su despliegue se realiza en menos de un día (realmente!)
Permite no interrumpir las operaciones en curso (reducción del 99,7% en los tiempos de inactividad no planificados)
Escala fácilmente - Añada capacidad cuando la necesite- No más sobre aprovisionamiento (el tiempo de despliegue es 85% más rápido)
Reduce el costo y la complejidad de su sistema de computación y almacenamiento - hasta un 90% de ahorro de energía y espacio
Todos sus sistemas gestionados a través de una interfaz de panel único (71% menos tiempo de gestión de un entorno Nutanix)
Proporciona capacidades avanzadas de almacenamiento de clase empresarial (Deduplicación, Compresión, etc.)
Soporte de Clase Mundial – 88 Net Promotor Score (El siguiente proveedor de tecnología más alta de la lista fue Intel- en un 53!)
Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Chris Dufour
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform made up of a growing collection of integrated services: compute, storage, data, networking and apps.
Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy and manage applications in any way you like for unmatched productivity.
In this talk we will take a look at Microsoft’s cloud strategy and see how you can leverage PaaS in your environment.
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.
** Edureka Certification Training: https://www.edureka.co **
This Edureka "VMware Tutorial for Beginners” video will give you a thorough and insightful overview of Virtualization and help you understand other related terms that revolve around VMware and Virtualization. Following are the offering of this video:
1. What is VMware?
2. What is Virtualization?
3. Types Of Virtualization
4. What Is Hypervisor?
5. Hypervisor Types
6. Demo- Creating a VM using VMware Workstation Player
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.
VxRail Appliance - Modernize your infrastructure and accelerate IT transforma...Maichino Sepede
An overview of the VxRail Appliance, including what’s new with VxRail on the 14th generation PowerEdge server, and advancements in the VxRail 4.5 software.
RDS & Windows Virtual Desktop - Desktop in 2019+Marcel Meurer
Time and technologies are changing - What's about remote desktops and apps with RDS 2019 and Windows Virtual Desktop?
My presentation at the #CDCGermany in 2019 Frankfurt/Hanau
Nutanix se despacha en días, y su despliegue se realiza en menos de un día (realmente!)
Permite no interrumpir las operaciones en curso (reducción del 99,7% en los tiempos de inactividad no planificados)
Escala fácilmente - Añada capacidad cuando la necesite- No más sobre aprovisionamiento (el tiempo de despliegue es 85% más rápido)
Reduce el costo y la complejidad de su sistema de computación y almacenamiento - hasta un 90% de ahorro de energía y espacio
Todos sus sistemas gestionados a través de una interfaz de panel único (71% menos tiempo de gestión de un entorno Nutanix)
Proporciona capacidades avanzadas de almacenamiento de clase empresarial (Deduplicación, Compresión, etc.)
Soporte de Clase Mundial – 88 Net Promotor Score (El siguiente proveedor de tecnología más alta de la lista fue Intel- en un 53!)
Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Chris Dufour
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform made up of a growing collection of integrated services: compute, storage, data, networking and apps.
Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy and manage applications in any way you like for unmatched productivity.
In this talk we will take a look at Microsoft’s cloud strategy and see how you can leverage PaaS in your environment.
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.
** Edureka Certification Training: https://www.edureka.co **
This Edureka "VMware Tutorial for Beginners” video will give you a thorough and insightful overview of Virtualization and help you understand other related terms that revolve around VMware and Virtualization. Following are the offering of this video:
1. What is VMware?
2. What is Virtualization?
3. Types Of Virtualization
4. What Is Hypervisor?
5. Hypervisor Types
6. Demo- Creating a VM using VMware Workstation Player
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.
In this presentation, desktop virtualization expert Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) demonstrates how eG Enterprise helps you manage your Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop environment to:
• Proactively identify and diagnose the root cause of issues and resolve them before users notic
• Rapidly resolve user complaints such as “my desktop is slow” with automated identification of bottlenecks and their root cause
• Achieve real-time oversight and performance management to meet SLA and performance objectives
• Gain a holistic end-to-end view of the virtual desktop infrastructure, understand usage trends and bottlenecks and plan effectively for growth
• Customize real-time dashboards and create targeted reports to deliver timely, concise information that is relevant and valuable to each technical and management team member
Whether you are migrating from Citrix XenApp 4.5 to 6.5 or from 6.5 to 7.5, or you are virtualizing your desktops as part of your Windows XP to Windows 7/8 migration project, performance is a key priority. Users will expect the same or better performance after the migration as they had before the migration. When performance problems occur, the migration is always blamed first!
Join this webinar to learn about the latest best practices and secrets for making your Citrix and desktop migrations successful. Performance management experts Dennis Callaghan (Senior Analyst, 451 Research), Rick Ruskin (Vice President, VDX) and Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) will discuss how to:
- Transform your Citrix and desktop environments successfully without project delays or cost overruns
- Deliver superior end-user experience, simplify management, and reduce cost - before, during and after migration
- Assure user satisfaction by pre-emptively detecting and resolving performance issues - before users are impacted
- Utilize next-gen management solutions to accelerate troubleshooting and identify the true root-cause of problems (is it the Network? Database? Application? Citrix? Virtual platform? Storage?)
- Ensure maximum ROI by right-sizing IT infrastructure using powerful analytics & reporting
How to Get the Fastest Possible Citrix Logon Times?eG Innovations
Logon is a user's first interaction with the Citrix digital workspace service, and hence, a slow logon can influence a user's opinion of the service in a way that no other metric can. Therefore, logon time is the #1 key performance indicator (KPI) in Citrix environments.
Slow logons have an impact not just on user perception, but also on productivity. When each logon takes minutes — maybe on multiple systems — it results in lost work time and costs the business. So, it is imperative that logons be as quick and non-intrusive as possible. But how can we make this happen?
Learn some of the best practices for Citrix Logon time optimization.
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VMworld 2013: Building the Management Stack for Your Software Defined Data Ce...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Bernd Harzog, The Virtualization Practice
Mark Leake, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2013: The Transformative Power and Business Case for Cloud Automation VMworld
VMworld 2013
Rich Bourdeau, VMware
Rich Pleasants, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
How to Get the Fastest Possible Citrix Logon Times? Optimization Tips for ...eG Innovations
Logon is a user's first interaction with the Citrix digital workspace service, and hence, a slow logon can influence a user's opinion of the service in a way that no other metric can. Therefore, logon time is the #1 key performance indicator (KPI) in Citrix environments.
Slow logons have an impact not just on user perception, but also productivity. When each logon takes minutes — maybe on multiple systems — it results in lost work time and costs the business. So, it is imperative that logons be as quick and non-intrusive as possible. But how can we make this happen?
Learn some of the best practices for Citrix logon time optimization.
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How to simplify the monitoring of multi-cloud environmentseG Innovations
According to Gartner, 75% of enterprise customers have adopted a multi-cloud strategy. While this is good from an organizational and resilience standpoint, the increased complexity, management and monitoring could reduce or even outweigh the benefits.
For ITOps, multi-cloud deployments are now a reality. They have more services to monitor, more dashboards to keep an eye on, no common console and potentially higher MTTR. The adoption of microservices and Kubernetes makes the problem more challenging.
In this webinar, how multi-cloud monitoring and end-to-end visibility can be simplified by walking you through how to troubleshoot common performance problems in a multi-cloud setup in minutes.
How to get full, end-to-end visibility into your multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment so you can visually see where the root-cause of the performance problem is
Troubleshooting a live microservices web-application deployed on-premises, AWS and Azure, and a tech stack that includes Kubernetes, Docker and Java
How to find the real-user experience of your multi-cloud application and see what issues your users in different geo-locations are facing
Identify which pages in a web application have the highest page-load time
How to use business transaction tracing to identify the database query or micro-service that is impacting application performance
Migrating to the Cloud – Is Application Performance Monitoring still required?eG Innovations
As more businesses adopt cloud technologies for their various benefits it must be noted that not all cloud offerings are the same and provide different services or infra SLA. Do you know that not all SLA from cloud providers mean your application will be ensured similar availability?
Depending on whether you are leveraging Saas, Paas, Iaas, etc to deliver your applications, you will have a different level of visibility and control of how you manage performance and deliver the user experience expected by your users.
Join the session and find out what remains within your responsibility and how you can monitor the various cloud infrastructure/services to give yourself the needed visibility to deliver the expected user experience without over-provisioning to ensure better performance.
Key criteria for choosing APM solutions for the next normal: analysis of surv...eG Innovations
Historically, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools have mainly been focused on providing code level visibility for web applications. IT managers have had to deploy these solutions to complement infrastructure monitoring solutions to get end-to-end visibility across applications and services.
To understand how the APM needs of organizations have evolved in the next normal, eG Innovations and DevOps Institute conducted a survey. Over 900 software professionals - DevOps engineers, SREs, ITOps teams and system admins – shared their knowledge and thinking.
We’ve invited Eveline Oehrlich, Chief Research Officer at DevOps Institute and ex-Forrester VP and Research Director to join us to dissect the results of this survey. Eveline will share her experiences and knowledge within the APM space, discuss trends and will discuss what the future of APM should look like. Also joining the discussion will be Arun Aravamudhan, Head of Java APM and Web Products and web products at eG Innovations.
We are looking forward to you joining this webinar. Here are some highlights on what we will cover:
- Why APM is no longer just about code-level analysis
- The need for converged application and infrastructure monitoring
- The strategy for Kubernetes and cloud monitoring in the next normal
- The challenges with native cloud monitoring options
- Application performance management has gained management attention
Register now and learn the current state of APM adoption and how business needs in the next normal will change how APM should be leveraged.
How Citrix Admins can get a Virtual AssistanteG Innovations
By offering a unified place for people to access any app, whether SaaS, web, mobile or virtual digital workspaces have become mission-critical for the new way of work. As digital workspaces evolve in scale, complexity and business importance Citrix Admins need unified visibility and actionable insights to diagnose and resolve performance issues across the entire IT environment—both physical and virtual; both on-premises and cloud.
This requires deep Citrix domain expertise along with end-to-end visibility across Citrix and non-Citrix tiers; which can quickly overwhelm most Citrix administrators. Citrix Admins need a virtual assistant to:
• Proactively monitor digital workspace user experience
• Automatically isolate and remediate performance issues
• Align capacity to changing business and user requirements
• Improve user experience with embedded analytics
Join John Worthington, Director Customer Success and Nanda Kumar, Director Solutions Engineering at eG Innovations, for an action-packed demonstration of how eG Enterprise is the digital assistant every Citrix Admin needs.
Make synthetic monitoring a critical part of your IT monitoring strategy: Why...eG Innovations
Many IT monitoring tools fail in the real-world because they are reactive to events that have happened. The first time the IT team knows there is a problem is when the service desk sees a pile of tickets with users complaining that their “application is slow.”
Adding a layer of synthetic monitoring can make ITOps go from being reactive to proactive. This helps the ITOps team to cut down on the number of service desk tickets because you can see where the bottlenecks are before end-users even notice.
While logon simulators are ubiquitous for Citrix and VMware Horizon environments, users really care about whether the applications they use in their job such as SAP, Office, Epic or Salesforce are responsive and usable.
Join us for this webinar where you will learn:
- How to record and automate REAL workflows to test any application – web apps or thick apps within a published desktops like Citrix, VMware Horizon, Amazon WorkSpaces, Microsoft AVD, etc.
- How to check that web apps used by your employees are not just responsive but working as expected – this is critical for businesses that rely on SaaS applications like Office 365 and Salesforce
- How to validate that employees are able to logon to published desktops AND perform routine tasks in applications like SAP and Epic
- How to correlate the performance of the application with the underlying IT infrastructure to determine if bottlenecks are on the users’ network, in the third-party application or within your infrastructure
If you are struggling to be proactive, or to shift from monitoring resources to monitoring the digital experience of your users, then you need to attend this webinar to see just how easy it is to get started with synthetic monitoring.
Unified Cloud Performance Monitoring - The Need of The HoureG Innovations
Are you monitoring your cloud and hybrid infrastructure to achieve end-to-end performance visibility? Does your current approach in monitoring provide you with the width and depth for the level of granularity to identify a problem before users are impacted or to help you reduce the time to isolate and diagnose the root cause?
Join this webinar to help you decide how to better manage different types of cloud practices like private, public, hybrid and traditional data centers with a single console as eG Innovations share best practices to manage performance issues across these infrastructures
Scope:
- Determine the critical requirements while migrating to the cloud.
- How to assure cross-cloud delivery of critical IT services?
- Does the native cloud monitoring suffice everyone's needs?
- Need of a comprehensive unified cloud monitoring solution and features
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
How to consolidate Citrix Monitoring in a Single Pane of GlasseG Innovations
A recent survey by eG Innovations and xenappblog found that 68% of organizations are using 2-5 different tools for monitoring and managing their Citrix infrastructure. Multiple monitoring tools make it expensive to operate and troubleshoot IT infrastructure issues. Furthermore, a lot of manual effort is required to diagnose and fix performance issues.
Join Richard Faulkner, Enterprise Solutions Architect and CTP from Conversant Group, and John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations, and learn how you can get a single-pane-of-glass view of your Citrix infrastructure – from the client end to the virtual desktops/apps and even the backend applications.
See how you can:
--Monitor and get proactive alerts on the experience seen by Citrix users
--Track the performance of every layer and every tier of your Citrix infrastructure: NetScalers, StoreFronts, Virtual apps and desktops, WEM, PVS, License servers, etc.
--Troubleshoot in a single click and identify where the root-cause of a problem is: network, or storage, or virtualization, or the Citrix stack?
--Get insights to right-size and optimize your Citrix deployment
Digital Workspace Deployment and Performance Monitoring in the New Normal - S...eG Innovations
The last year has been tumultuous for everyone. For the end-user computing community, it was an extraordinary time with everyone having to deal with new requirements from their businesses at short notice. Over the last 3 months, xenappblog and eG Innovations conducted a survey to learn how organizations have adapted their digital workspaces to the new normal. For this webinar titled Digital Workspace Deployment and Performance Monitoring in the New Normal, we have invited three EUC experts to analyze and share their thoughts on the key findings of this survey of over 1050 digital workspace professionals.
Join this webinar and learn answers to several key questions, such as how many organizations adopted digital workspaces for the first time, how many are using cloud workspaces, how popular are different workspace technologies, how many monitoring tools are being needed to get a complete view of the digital workspace environment, and many more.
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Lessons from Experts: How you can create a Great Digital Workspace Experience...eG Innovations
Organizations today are seeking to deliver freedom for employees to securely work where they want, when they want, and from the best device for the job. In order to do so, you need to augment digital workspace services that bring together the applications and data your people need, with a managed digital experience – giving you faster resolution of issues and peace of mind, allowing IT staff to really focus on adding value to the organization, and giving your employees the experience they deserve.
In this webinar, Jason Poyner, CEO of Deptive, one of New Zealand’s premier digital workspace companies, will join Sean Martin, Senior Technical Consultant at eG Innovations to discuss how to create virtual digital workspaces your employees will love. In this webinar, you will learn:
• How to reduce service desk tickets by 50%
• How to greatly improve the user experience
• How to prevent incident “hot-potato” and reduce MTTR – the time to identify and resolve incidents
• Why monitoring goes wrong. Few tips on what to do, and what not to do!
• How Deptive are using eG Enterprise monitoring and Microsoft Power BI visualization technologies to deliver a value-added service offering to ensure digital workspace success
Gemeente Heerhugowaard aan het woord: “Productiviteit gewaarborgd ondanks het...eG Innovations
“Hoe gebruikt gemeente Heerhugowaard hun IT omgeving optimaal om thuis werken te faciliteren?”
“Welke problemen ervaarde gemeente Heerhugowaard en hoe hebben zij dit aangepakt?”
Deze en meer vragen worden beantwoord door Michiel Bakker tijdens dit webinar.
Het IT landschap wordt steeds complexer met de diverse applicaties in de CLOUD, lokaal draaiende software, gebruikers werkend vanuit huis en/of op kantoor. Dit stelt steeds hogere eisen aan uw IT organisatie. Het niet beschikbaar hebben van een bedrijfskritische applicatie kan zelfs leiden tot imagoschade. Daarom denken wij dat proactief beheer steeds belangrijker wordt.
Michiel Bakker, System Engineer bij Gemeente Heerhugowaard en Barry Schiffer, Pre-Sales Consultant bij eG Innovations bespreken de volgende onderwerpen:
Wat zijn IT uitdagingen binnen lokale overheidsorganisaties?
Met welke problemen heeft een gemeente te maken?
Hoe heeft de gemeente Heerhugowaard de medewerkers productiviteit weten te waarborgen tijdens de veranderde werkplek in 2020?
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
One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in to the helpdesk complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving such issues? A Citrix deployment has many infrastructure tiers and dependencies. Where do you initially focus your investigations, what do you analyze, and how do you triage?
George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting.
One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in to the helpdesk complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving such issues? A Citrix deployment has many infrastructure tiers and dependencies. Where do you initially focus your investigations, what do you analyze, and how do you triage?
George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting.
How to monitor all aspects of Citrix NetScaler usage and performance within t...eG Innovations
Citrix NetScaler / ADC has evolved into a networking powerhouse, supporting a variety of functions including application firewalls, VPN tunnels, caching and acceleration, compression, and ensuring fast delivery of web and desktop applications.
Since it plays a central role, the availability and performance of a Citrix NetScaler / ADC device is crucial. Not only does NetScaler / ADC performance impact the user experience, but more importantly, it is also important for safeguarding the security and sanctity of the IT infrastructure.
eG Enterprise monitors all aspects of Citrix NetScaler usage and performance within the context of any digital service — physical, virtual, cloud, and containers.
Microsoft, Citrix and SCOM: EOL or a New Beginning ?eG Innovations
The SCOM management packs for Citrix are reaching End Of Life this month. You can move to a standalone monitoring solution like Citrix Director, but this means you will no longer be able to use Microsoft SCOM as the single unified monitoring console for your organization.
You now have a chance to convert the EOL into a new beginning. The eG Universal management pack for SCOM provides you with the best Citrix monitoring solution integrated tightly with your SCOM environment. What is more, you can also monitor other non-Microsoft technologies without needing additional management packs.
Learn more on, how you can make End Of Life for your Citrix SCOM management packs bring new life into your SCOM environment:
•Learn how to augment SCOM with logon simulation and deep Citrix domain expertise
•Leverage patented analytics for all your applications, Azure cloud services, and infrastructure
•Get code-level correlation for .NET applications and quickly isolate performance issues
Citrix Cloud Services - Are they right for you ?eG Innovations
Being able to quickly scale up and deploy Citrix quickly to your workforce has never been more important. And Cloud-based service is a strategic direction for Citrix, one that you cannot ignore if you are a Citrix client. So, what are the benefits of Citrix Cloud and what are the caveats?
George Spiers walks us through the pros and cons of migrating to Citrix Cloud.
• The Citrix Cloud architecture
• Architectural considerations when migrating to Citrix Cloud
• How to decide what stays on-prem and what is in the cloud
• Performance monitoring: How far do Citrix Director and Performance Analytics go
Best Practices for Troubleshooting Four Real-world Java Performance IssueseG Innovations
If you are managing or operating Java-based web applications, you have probably heard your users complain many a time that "the application is slow". After spending hours, you find out that the issue was not your application, but with a third party service that your application relies upon. Web application performance issues can also occur due to code problems, database table locks or slowness on the browser, to name a few reasons.
Learn how to troubleshoot four real-world performance issues with Java-based web applications in minutes.
The Complete User Experience Monitoring Solution - eG Enterprise v7eG Innovations
Introducing eG Enterprise v7: The industry's most advanced user experience monitoring solution. eG Innovations application performance monitoring solutions simplify and accelerate discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of application performance problems in virtual, physical, and cloud environments.
Check out this presentation and learn how the new SaaS-based monitoring service from eG Innovations helps Citrix customers with performance management of their digital workpace environments.
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/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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Assuring Contact Center Experiences for Your Customers With ThousandEyes
VDI Best Practices
1. VDI Best Practices
How to Ensure a Great
Customer Experience
When Deploying Client
Virtualization
Presenters
Roy Francis (FusionStorm)
Bala Vaidhinathan (eG Innovations)
Rick Ruskin (eG Innovations)
2. Today’s Discussion
Avoid client virtualization pitfalls
Overcome user challenges
Migration considerations
Address performance and scalability
considerations
Success stories
Next steps
4. Client Virtualization: Top 10 Mistakes
10: Not Calculating Network Impact
– Virtual desktops require more bandwidth
– Virtual apps may not
9: No Profile Strategy
– When organizations do not properly plan the profile strategy they are asking
for failure
– Especially true for Client Virtualization
8: Lack of Application Virtualization Strategy
– Primary factor that often dictates the need for additional desktop images are
application sets
7: Improper Resource Allocation
– Fine line between maximizing the number of users a single server can support
and providing the user with a good virtual desktop computing experience
6: Not Optimizing Antivirus
– Simply adding AV to the virtual desktop can cause severe performance issues
5. Client Virtualization: Top 10 Mistakes
5: Not Managing Boot Storms
– A virtual desktop startup has the single largest impact to any virtual
desktop implementation
4: Ignoring Virtual Desktop Optimizations
– However, when delivering an operating system into a virtual desktop,
many organizations do not go far enough to optimize the desktop for
the virtualized environment
3: Not Enough Cache
– Simply adding more RAM to the Server won’t solve the problem
2: Default Settings Used on Management Server
1: Improper Storage Design
– Without a properly designed storage subsystem, a user’s virtual desktop
will slow down to the point of becoming unusable because storage
becomes a bottleneck
6. ROI Review
Savings on IT budgets, as reported by
20% businesses that have implemented
desktop virtualization and are
tracking ROI.
How did they get there?
7. Performance Monitoring
~70%
What does that mean? First, not all
customers have performance monitoring in
their environment – but those that do; ~70%
of the savings in IT budgets was created and
reported through proper performance
monitoring and management.
Most of the Top-10 mistakes made
couldn’t have been reported without
proper performance monitoring in
place.
9. Recommended Process
Approach a CV project like any other major project
Conduct Manage &
Assess Plan Design Pilot Implement
POC Support
•Understand Business •Define Architecture •Develop detailed •Validate the •Migrate users in •Roll-out to Target •Manage and Monitor
& End-User •Define staffing and design and technology Target Pilot Group Users user experience
Requirements education operational plans •Ensure •Conduct multiple through best of
•Identify investment requirements •Develop support plan feature/functionality pilots to validate breed tools
requirements •Define Support plan exists solution readiness •Support end users
through proper help
desk training and
incident
management &
response
Most customers skip these key steps and
move directly to a pilot.
13. Application Integration
& User Workspace Design
Security Policies on what users can do
Single Desktop Image Design
Is Application Streaming viable?
What else in the user environment needs to be
controlled, managed and automated?
14. Validated Networking Design
Core Switching and Routing
Advanced Networking Components
o Application Load Balancing
o Site Load Balancing
o Branch Site WAN Optimization
o Datacenter WAN Optimization
15. What We Hear in the Field
“Client Virtualization is just like Server
Virtualization”
– Beyond the possibility of using a server virtualization
platform, this is a whole different ballgame
“You can use your existing desktop licenses
for virtual desktop deployment”
– If you have Software Assurance, VDA is a benefit
– If you don’t have SA, VDA is $100/device/year
(subscription based on licensing agreement)
“VDI can be rolled out in a month”
– Most organizations take 6-12 months to assess,
plan, design and pilot their solution
16. What We Hear In The Field
“Presentation Virtualization or Terminal Services is
‘old school’ technology”
– We continue to see customers adopt Microsoft RDS and Citrix
XenApp since it is mature and proven technology.
– CDW has deployed 5,000 seats of XenApp 6 + NetScaler
“There is no ROI in Client Virtualization technology”
– This is actually somewhat true. Calculating an accurate ROI
first requires starting with an accurate TCO; something which
is fairly difficult to calculate. This should include:
• Desktop refresh costs
• Desktop OS costs (including SA)
• Help Desk/Service Desk costs
• Desktop/Application administrative and break/fix personnel
costs
– A Client Virtualization solution, just like Server Virtualization
requires significant upfront investments, but due to the lack of
major power/cooling benefits, the ROI takes longer to
achieve, and is usually 3-6 years out.
17. VDI Performance Pain
50% of all desktop
virtualization projects
stall or fail for 2 reasons:
1) Unacceptable End
User Performance
2) Cost Overruns
“Traditional management tools and
desktop assessments are failing to
deliver VDI performance, user
acceptance and scalability.”
18. Audience Poll
What is your biggest client virtualization
pain?
– User experience / performance
– Cost control / ROI
– Deployment complexity
– Lack of client virtualization management tools
– Client virtualization expertise
19. VDI Best Practices
Bala Vaidhinathan
CTO
eG Innovations
Bala@eginnovations.com
20. VDI Performance Assurance
Performance
management for VDI is
extremely unique as you
need a solution that
combines multiple
Virtualization different performance
management
methodologies
Brokers VDI
and
Desktop
Support
Systems
21. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor Deep
Visibility
Monitor
VDI Service, Right-Size Users, into
not Silos for Great Sessions
Preemptive Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
22. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor Deep
Visibility
Monitor
VDI Service, Right-Size Users, into
not Silos for Great Sessions
Preemptive Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
23.
Monitor the VDI Service, Not Silos Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos
Users care about the “service” IT operations teams focus
on infrastructure silos
VDI is slow The DNS servers are
responding well to
queries.
VDI is not
working The User / IT Management
Disconnect
VDI freezes The CPU usage of
often the VMware servers
is ok.
This disconnect is a threat to the success of transformational IT
initiatives & the promise of agility, scalability, and cost savings!
24.
Monitor the VDI Service, Not Silos Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos
Know when
user access is
slowing
25.
Get 360o Visibility Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos
Know which tiers
are working and
which are not.
Virtual Server Monitoring Solutions cannot give you 360 o visibility.
They focus on the virtualization platform only.
26.
Monitor Every Layer, Every Tier Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos
There is an alert indicating
The issue looks fine. vCenter
an VMs within the virtual
desktop.
does not show any alert.
The hypervisor looks fine.
27.
Monitor Every Layer, Every Tier Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos
Oops – there is 26%
retransmission from
the virtual desktop
28.
Automatic Root-Cause Diagnosis Monitor
VDI Service,
not Silos
Root-cause
The effect of the problem
Deep visibility into every layer, every tier, & service-based
correlation enable rapid/accurate diagnosis of performance issues.
29. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor Deep
Visibility
Monitor
VDI Service, Right-Size Users, into
not Silos for Great Sessions
Preemptive Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
30.
Plan Based on Usage Report Right-Size
for Great
ROI
Top users, Top applications
Know usage patterns and trends for effective capacity planning
and load distribution.
31.
Get More Out of Your Investment Right-Size
for Great
ROI
Track user sessions on each server
A few of the servers
are handling most of
the sessions
32.
Know How to Invest Widely Right-Size
for Great
Find your VDI bottlenecks ROI
33. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor Deep
Visibility
Monitor
VDI Service, Right-Size Users, into
not Silos for Great Sessions
Preemptive Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
34.
Preemptive Detection & Alerting Preemptive
Detection
It is important to have the right metrics & Alerting
Broad Coverage Deep Insights
- LUN queue length
Storage Application Virtual - VM CPU Ready
Physical
Cloud - TCP Retransmissions
Database
Network - Memory leaks
- Profile sizes
Look for domain expertise in VDI, collect the right metrics.
Virtualization
Otherwise, it will be a case of “Garbage in, Garbage out”!
35.
Auto-Baseline Key Metrics Preemptive
Detection
• Auto-compute time-of-day baselines & Alerting
• Alert administrators when metrics violate baselines
Preemptive detection & alerting lets administrators
see and fix problems before users notice
36. A Preemptive Alerting Example
Real-World Scenario Preemptive
Detection
& Alerting
The domain server goes down, pulling down the VDI service. Why?
Event history provides a clue …
The domain
5 hours earlier, a pro-
server has failed
active alert about
and rebooted.
memory leak!
37. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor Deep
Visibility
Monitor
VDI Service, Right-Size Users, into
not Silos for Great Sessions
Preemptive Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
38.
Monitor Users, Not Just VMs Monitor
Users, not
just VMs
• Workload of the VM is user-dependent
• When a user complains, need to know which
physical server and VM they are on
• Need to know who the top users are for
capacity planning
• User information required for billing, capacity
planning
Poor user experience impacts VDI success.
So focus on monitoring users, not just VMs!
39.
Monitor Users, Not Just VMs Monitor
Users, not
just VMs
When a user calls,
search for the user
Know which ESX/Xen server
he/she is logged on to
40.
Monitor Users, Not Just VMs Monitor
Users, not
just VMs
See all the other users
logged on to the same
ESX/Xen host.
See performance issues at the user level so you can fix
and right-size your VDI environment for user satisfaction.
41. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor Deep
Visibility
Monitor
VDI Service, Right-Size Users, into
not Silos for Great Sessions
Preemptive Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
42.
Deep Visibility Into Sessions Deep
Visibility
into
Sessions
CPU usage inside a
virtual desktop is high
43.
Deep Visibility Into Sessions Deep
Visibility
into
Sessions
The top CPU process is
Windows Media Player.
The user is watching a
movie
Accelerate problem resolution
by understanding why a VM is consuming resources.
44. VDI Performance Assurance
Monitor
Deep
VDI Visibility
Monitor
Service, not Right-Size Users, into
Silos for Great Preemptive Sessions
Not Just
ROI Detection VMs
& Alerting
45. VDI Performance Assurance Benefits
User Satisfaction
IT Productivity
“Dramatically simplify and
Higher
accelerate VDI performance VDI
management. service
Performance
Deliver peak performance, Assurance uptime
user satisfaction and ROI.”
Simplicity
Cost control & ROI
46. Delivering Great Customer Experiences
Success Stories
Rick Ruskin
Vice President Sales
eG Innovations
Rick.Ruskin@eginnovations.com
47. Leading Financial Software Vendor
Boosts VDI Scalability and ROI
Challenge: VDI Scalability
– 15,000 Citrix VDI users experienced declining user productivity due
to application performance issues (“slow applications”)
– Legacy tools ineffective in diagnosing problem
Solution: eG Performance Management
– Rapid resolution of performance issues minimizes downtime and
user frustration
– Automate diagnosis, remove guesswork and boost IT productivity
– Efficient analytics remove bottlenecks to scalability
– Eliminate unnecessary resource expenditures and boost ROI
48. Major Hospital Chain
Virtualizes Citrix XenApp
Challenge: Virtualizing XenApp for the first time
– No visibility to see and assess performance problems
– In reality “other” VM’s were consuming the resources allocated
to the Hypervisor (not Citrix XenApp)
Solution: eG Performance Management
– Correlate views between the Hypervisor (ESX) and XenApp to
uncover the real cause of slow performance
– Deep visibility into XenApp user profiles enable higher VM
density and better hardware utilization
– Achieve 25% more users per server and significant cost savings
across the infrastructure
49. Major Media & Cable Company
Gets Performance Assurance
Challenge: How to scale from ZERO to 10,000 VDI users
in less than one year
– Requires VDI performance platform that instantaneously shows
root cause and remediates issues quickly, before users are
impacted
Solution: eG Performance Management
– Immediate visibility to the root cause of user experience issues
– Real-time identification of database, application, and network
challenges
– VDI user scale out proceeds seamlessly
50. Big System Integrator Solves
Tough Performance Problem
Challenge: Worldwide VDI user performance is
inconsistent across regions
– Extreme latency assumed to be a network problem
– Significant money spent to build up the network bandwidth…yet
problems persisted
Solution: eG Performance Management
– Identify conflicts between virtual desktops that consume large
resources across different times of the day
– Quickly find root cause of issue by correlating between the
users, applications, VDI sessions, and infrastructure