Category Archives: IT Infrastructure Management

Delivering Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop Performance – Join the Webinar

Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop users expect their application delivery to be as fast and reliable as the physical desktop experience. A single failure in the extended XenApp/XenDesktop infrastructure can bring application performance to a crawl and impact user productivity. Most … Continue reading

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eG Enterprise Performance Management Solution is SAP Certified!

Think of the most demanding and most mission-critical of applications and SAP figures at the top of the list. Last week, we successfully completed all the requirements to achieve a stamp of approval from SAP for our eG Enterprise performance … Continue reading

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Making IT Service Management Simple and Proactive

One of the big challenges that enterprises face with monitoring tools relates to “false alerts”. Administrators often get too many alerts when nothing is wrong. So very often, they end up turning the thresholds up in such a way that … Continue reading

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The Changing Requirements for Monitoring in Citrix Infrastructures

The increasing focus on VDI has meant that organizations are comparing XenDesktop and XenApp as alternatives for remote access and finding that depending on their requirements, XenApp is actually not a bad alternative! At the Gartner IOM summit last week, … Continue reading

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IT Management is a top technology priority for CIOs in 2011

Just back from the Gartner IOM conference in Orlando. Here’s one titbit of interest. IT management is among the top technology priorities for CIOs in 2011. Cloud Computing and Virtualization (not surprisingly) are 1st and 2nd. IT management is 4th … Continue reading

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The 451 Group Reviews eG Enterprise-On-Tap

The 451 Group recently reviewed the eG Innovations’ eG Enterprise-on-Tap cloud hosted monitoring service. In this note, Dennis Callaghan, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software at the 451 Group writes “We think it could be a compelling service for eG Innovations’ customers … Continue reading

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Outages Bring Cloud Monitoring in Focus!

Over the last week, Amazon’s cloud service had a serious outage that caused many popular web businesses to go offline for several hours and resulted in significant loss of business.   All of a sudden, many in the press (and users … Continue reading

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Designing High Performance Java / J2EE Applications is not Easy!

Business applications developed in Java have become incredibly complex. Java developers have to have expertise with numerous technologies – JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, Struts, Hibernate, JDBC, JMX, JMS, JSF, Web services, SOAP, thread pools, object pools, etc., not to forget the … Continue reading

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Blame it on Virtualization!

Over the last month, we’ve seen two different cases where applications were moved to a virtualization platform and in both cases, a few days after the migration, the applications had problems. The move to virtualization was immediately blamed for the … Continue reading

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Configuration Monitoring Can Help with Root-Cause Diagnosis!

Historically, configuration monitoring has been looked at primarily for compliance – to see what software and hardware is in which servers and which locations and to make sure that standard procedures are being followed for software deployment (e.g., is antivirus … Continue reading

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