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Srinivas Ramanathan
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Citrix NetScaler MAS for XenApp and XenDesktop Performance Management
Citrix Monitoring

Citrix NetScaler MAS for XenApp and XenDesktop Performance Management

Extend NetScaler MAS for End-to-End Citrix Monitoring Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) is a centralized management solution that provides administrators with the ability to manage and monitor Citrix application networking products from a single, unified console. NetScaler MAS includes a number of modules...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
June 4, 2018
Unified Citrix Management in the Limelight
Citrix Monitoring

Unified Citrix Management in the Limelight

This week, Citrix made several interesting announcements about the future of their product suite. Among the key announcements was the forthcoming Excalibur release which will include a common management console for their XenApp and XenDesktop technologies. While Excalibur will provide users flexibility to decide how to deliver different applications and...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
October 20, 2012
Challenges in Virtualizing SAP
SAP Monitoring

Challenges in Virtualizing SAP

Here is an interesting blog post on the challenges and opportunities in virtualizing SAP. A recent Aberdeen Group survey indicates that only 31% of SAP deployments have been virtualized so far. When SAP users were questioned about the reasons for not moving to a virtualized infrastructure for supporting SAP, four key areas of concern were mentioned: Uncertainty as...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
September 8, 2012
Interesting Virtualization Statistics
VMware Monitoring

Interesting Virtualization Statistics

Below are some interesting trends regarding the adoption and growth of virtualization technologies. These virtualization trends are from a recent VMware presentation. What percent of workloads are virtualized currently? The results indicate a continued increase in adoption of virtualization technologies in the enterprise. Which applications are being...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
August 31, 2012
Three Perspectives of Cloud Monitoring: From the Cloud, of the Cloud, For the Cloud
Cloud Monitoring

Three Perspectives of Cloud Monitoring:
From the Cloud, of the Cloud, For the Cloud

The Three Perspectives of Cloud Monitoring For long, cloud performance management and monitoring has been an overloaded term. Many refer to this term as the ability to collect metrics from public cloud providers like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. At eG Innovations, we believe that there is a whole lot more to...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
August 30, 2011
eG Enterprise Performance Monitoring Solution is SAP Certified!
SAP Monitoring

eG Enterprise Performance Monitoring 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 management solution. Yes, eG Enterprise now has an SAP Certified Integration for eG Enterprise...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
August 11, 2011
How Quickly are Enterprises Adopting the Cloud?
Cloud Monitoring

How Quickly are Enterprises Adopting the Cloud?

Clearly, cloud adoption is on the rise. A recent survey by CDW, the distributor, offers interesting insights into what enterprises think about Cloud computing and where it plays in their future plans. The survey which covered organizations in business, government, healthcare and education found that 28% of US organizations are implementing a specific...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
June 8, 2011
Outages Bring Cloud Monitoring in Focus!
Cloud Monitoring

Outages Bring Cloud Monitoring in Focus!

The outage of Amazon’s cloud service impacted many businesses hosted in their cloud data center 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 as well!) are beginning...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
April 23, 2011
Designing High Performance Java Applications is not Easy!
Java Monitoring

Designing High Performance Java Applications is not Easy!

Use of Java Applications 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 core Java principles like...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
April 19, 2011
Providing 360 Degree Virtual Machine Monitoring – Inside and Outside
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Providing 360 Degree Virtual Machine Monitoring – Inside and Outside

If you are responsible for virtual machines in an IT infrastructure, you’re probably already aware that metrics like CPU ready time, balloon memory, IOPS, etc. are important indicators of how the virtual infrastructure is performing. These metrics together provide what we refer to as the “outside view” of...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
April 10, 2011
Agility – Not Cost – is Driving Private Cloud Computing
Cloud Monitoring

Agility – Not Cost – is Driving Private Cloud Computing

According to Gartner, agility (not cost) is the most important driving factor motivating private cloud computing deployments. If you have used a public cloud service provider and experienced a cloud-based service first hand, this is not surprising. Having the ability to get a server you need in minutes with the applications you...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
March 13, 2011
Don’t Blame it on Virtualization
VMware Monitoring

Don’t 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 problems. Coincidentally, in both these cases, our analysis using eG Enterprise proved that...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
March 6, 2011
Configuration Monitoring Tools Can Help with Root Cause DiagnosisW
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Configuration Monitoring Tools Can Help with Root Cause DiagnosisW

What is Configuration Monitoring? 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 software installed and...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
February 7, 2011
eG Innovations Named Niche Player in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation & Analysis
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

eG Innovations Named Niche Player in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation & Analysis

Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, 2010. This Magic Quadrant addresses mature and emerging products that help IT organizations consolidate, analyze and respond to component-level IT infrastructure events, improve event-to-incident/problem...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
January 23, 2011
Good Marketing Does Not Age!
Citrix Monitoring

Good Marketing Does Not Age!

Just back from the Citrix Sales Kickoff meeting in Orlando. eG Innovations was one of 15 vendors invited to exhibit at the event. We had a great turn out at the booth. The big take away from the event for us was that the “Its Not Citrix” marketing campaign we came up with in 2004 still resonates with the audience! Amazing to see how the guy with the bruised...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
January 17, 2011
Virtualization Technologies
Cloud Monitoring

Virtualization Technologies

Fulfilling the Promise of Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technologies 2011 is almost here and it promises to be an exciting and challenging year!  Here are my top 10 predictions in the monitoring and management space. Virtualization and cloud computing have garnered a lot of attention recently. While virtualization has been successfully used for server...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
December 18, 2010
Scalability of IT Management Systems
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Scalability of IT Management Systems

How to Measure Scalability of an IT Management System I was part of an interesting discussion recently about how one measures the scalability of an IT management system. In the olden days, the focus was on fault management and the big challenge that management systems faced was event storms. In those days, SNMP agents were the primary means of monitoring...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
December 5, 2010
Five Myths of Virtualization Management
VMware Monitoring

Five Myths of Virtualization Management

The virtualization market has seen a dramatic growth in the last few years. Many recent industry surveys have pointed that a majority of enterprises are over 30% virtualized. Monitoring and management has become crucial as virtualization further penetrates the enterprise. In this article, we consider five of the most common misconceptions about...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
November 21, 2010
Customer Testimonial – Citrix Monitoring
Citrix Monitoring

Customer Testimonial – Citrix Monitoring

Many thanks to Mr. Jacob Ackerman, Director of Information Technology at Horizon Business Services for taking the time to write about his experiences with the eG Innovations software and services. We value every one of our customer relationships and it is accolades like these that motivate us to even greater heights. In his recent blog post, Mr...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
November 13, 2010
Why VMware and Virtualization Monitoring is Different from Standard Server Monitoring?
VMware Monitoring

Why VMware and Virtualization Monitoring is Different from Standard Server Monitoring?

You have management software that you’ve used for your Linux or Windows servers. Can’t you just deploy a Linux agent and monitor a VMware vSphere/ESX server, or a Windows agent to monitor a Microsoft Hyper-V server? This is a very common question that comes up in any discussion on VMware monitoring...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
November 7, 2010
Justifying the Cost of A Monitoring Tool
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Justifying the Cost of A Monitoring Tool

Procuring a monitoring tool is like getting insurance coverage for your IT infrastructure! As long as your infrastructure is working fine, monitoring is not at the top of the mind. The moment there is an incident, the first questions are: what changed? what parts of the infrastructure are not working? where is the root-cause of the problem? The best way to...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
October 25, 2010
eG VDI Monitor Capabilities Video
Citrix Monitoring

eG VDI Monitor Capabilities Video

Just back from VMworld Europe. Lots of people had heard about eG’s new VDI monitoring announcement and stopped by our booth to see our demos. While the Europe event had only about 1/3rd the attendance compared to the US event, we ended up with the same number of leads! If you are one of those deploying virtual desktop technology, you will find our new...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
October 15, 2010
Consolidating IT Monitoring Tools? We have the answer!
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Consolidating IT Monitoring Tools? We have the answer!

While a lot of attention has centered around server consolidation, a similar move is happening in the IT monitoring space too. Many enterprises are looking at ways to consolidate their IT monitoring tools. eG Enterprise offers several compelling advantages if you are looking to consolidate monitoring tools: Single tool for monitoring physical...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
October 10, 2010
How eG Enterprise value-adds to Citrix XenDesktop
Citrix Monitoring

How eG Enterprise value-adds to Citrix XenDesktop

Lots of announcements from Citrix at Citrix Synergy in Berlin yesterday. One of the most significant ones is Citrix’s announcement of XenDesktop 5 – the latest and greatest in VDI connection broker technology. XenDesktop 5 features a simpler and more powerful user interface, enhanced HDX user experience and new support for the iPad. You...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
October 7, 2010
Why Should Your VMware Management Solution Be VMware Ready Certified?
VMware Monitoring

Why Should Your VMware Management Solution Be VMware Ready Certified?

Things You Need to Know! A couple of years back, VMware announced a VMware Ready Management certification program for management systems. This rigorous program provides: Simplified management – simplify comprehensive management of virtual data center OS environments and across the enterprise with vCenter-integrated partner...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
October 4, 2010
Virtualization Best Practices for Better Monitoring and Management
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Virtualization Best Practices for Better Monitoring and Management

Virtualization offers excellent benefits - cost savings, agility, resource sharing, etc. but one thing it does not do is reduce the amount of monitoring you need to do to keep your IT infrastructure working well. Check out why by reading this post.
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
September 19, 2010
Collaborative Management – An Approach to Achieving IT Service Management Excellence
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Collaborative Management – An Approach to Achieving IT Service Management Excellence

For long, we at eG Innovations have propagated the concept of “Collaborative Management” – something that Gartner analysts have also mentioned in recent times. Many organizations have looked at ITIL as a way to achieve IT service management excellence. Most of these initiatives are driven...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
August 28, 2010
CSC Solves Challenge of Monitoring VDI Desktop Service with the eG VDI Monitor
Citrix Monitoring

CSC Solves Challenge of Monitoring VDI Desktop Service with the eG VDI Monitor

Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments are starting to emerge. At eG Innovations, we have been involved in some of the largest VDI deployments in the world over the last year. VDI plays to our strengths. For several years, we have had one of the best Citrix XenApp monitors in...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
July 18, 2010
Aligning IT Operations with the Business is Not Easy!
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Aligning IT Operations with the Business is Not Easy!

The importance of having your IT operations teams focused on the IT services and ultimately the demands of the business is highlighted by Gartner’s IT Operations Maturity Model below. Gartner’s IT operations maturity model A recent self-assessment by around 200 enterprises indicated that about 89% of organizations were at levels 1-3...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
July 14, 2010
Move Away from the Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud Debate and Focus on Business Value!
Cloud Monitoring

Move Away from the Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud Debate and Focus on Business Value!

There has been a lot of debate on how cloud computing is going to evolve. This year’s Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations and Management Summit a couple of weeks ago was all about cloud computing. Clearly, the public cloud is here already. One can use Amazon, GoGrid, and others to get pay-per-use...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
June 29, 2010
The Changing Landscape of IT Infrastructure Management
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

The Changing Landscape of IT Infrastructure Management

I’ve attended many sessions at the Gartner IT Operations and Management Summit over the years. One of the most interesting of these sessions was by David Williams, a Gartner analyst who delivered a thoroughly enlightening and enjoyable session providing points to consider for those in the IT infrastructure management space. Among these...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
June 20, 2010
VMware Hypervisor Market Share and Hypervisor Market Share Predictions
VMware Monitoring

VMware Hypervisor Market Share and Hypervisor Market Share Predictions

Virtualization and Hypervisor Market Statistics and Predictions by Gartner This week, I attended an interesting presentation on the state of virtualization and the hypervisor market at the Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations and Management Summit. A number of very interesting statistics/observations were made in this...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
June 18, 2010
Its Not a Numbers Game Any More!
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Its Not a Numbers Game Any More!

I was just going through an article where a prominent virtualization monitoring vendor was asking their prospects to see which other solution monitored what they claimed were 20 key metrics for a virtual infrastructure. Far too many vendors look at monitoring as a numbers game – “I can collect these 1000 metrics. Can you?”. A few years ago, one...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
June 6, 2010
What is Web Based Monitoring?
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

What is Web Based Monitoring?

Web-based monitoring is almost a requirement today. Having the ability to monitor your infrastructure from a web browser means you can know how your infrastructure is performing from anywhere, at any time. Almost every monitoring solution today has a web-based user interface. So, what then is a 100% web-based monitoring solution and why is it important? Here are your...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
May 30, 2010
Desktop Virtualization at Citrix Synergy
Citrix Monitoring

Desktop Virtualization at Citrix Synergy

At Citrix Synergy this week. Great chance to meet several of our key customers in one place. Feels different from VMworld – lots of room, more focused conversations and good audience, nevertheless! The big focus is on desktop virtualization. Attended a great session on VDI yesterday – Steve Greenberg of ThinClient explained how VDI and XenApp...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
May 13, 2010
Flat is NOT the New Up!
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Flat is NOT the New Up!

Growth and Performance Highlights Given the way the economy has been worldwide, many many times in the last couple of years, the phrase “Flat is the new up” has come up when discussing any business, meaning that if you can sustain your business its as good as growing in a better economy. Now, if you’re business has actually grown in the last year, how...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
April 27, 2010
eG Innovations listed in Gartner Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management 2010
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

eG Innovations listed in Gartner Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management 2010

Gartner cool vendors list for IT Operations Management for 2010 just came out – and eG Innovations is one among the five vendors in this list!  Quoting from the report “Innovation by the vendors referenced in this report has led to important new functionality for application performance monitoring (APM)...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
April 5, 2010
Not All Monitoring Agents are the Same!
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

Not All Monitoring Agents are the Same!

One of the primary ways that enterprises assess whether an IT monitoring solution is useful or not is by the number of times the monitoring solution alerted them to a problem before they had a catastrophic failure. Another important metric is when they had a problem, did the monitoring solution provide additional information that helped them drill down to...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
March 28, 2010
Do Monitoring Solutions Have to be Rearchitected to Monitor the Cloud?
AWS Monitoring

Do Monitoring Solutions Have to be Rearchitected to Monitor the Cloud?

Anything cloud is hot these days, and monitoring is no exception. Check out “cloud monitoring” on Google and you’ll see how many vendors have jumped on this bandwagon. Adding to the confusion is the usage of different terms – e.g., “monitoring the cloud” vs. “monitoring in the...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
March 23, 2010
Cloud Computing – Hype vs. Reality
Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Computing – Hype vs. Reality

When was the last time you attended a presentation or a webinar that did not have a mention of the “C” word? Many folks have gone overboard with this – check out the Citrix Cloud Center web page on the Citrix web site. Try reading through the page and see if you get the gist of the Citrix Cloud Center. All i could get was “cloud proven...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
March 14, 2010
Business Service Management (BSM) for Virtualized Infrastructures
VMware Monitoring

Business Service Management (BSM) for Virtualized Infrastructures

Had a very interesting discussion this week with a leading industry analyst who covers the Application Performance Management (APM) space. It had been more than two years since we had briefed her. Getting into the briefing she was a sceptic. She had been introduced to eG as an APM vendor several years ago, and wanted to know what...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
February 27, 2010
eG Enterprise Now Available as a Virtual Appliance
End-to-End Monitoring (E2E)

eG Enterprise Now Available as a Virtual Appliance

A few weeks back we made the eG Enterprise Manager available as a Virtual Appliance. If you are already using VMware vSphere/ESX, you can simply import the appliance on one of your servers and within a matter of minutes have the eG manager up and running. You wont need to find a system, install the OS, install the Java Development Kit (JDK), and...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
February 22, 2010
eG Enterprise is Citrix Ready Certified Too
Citrix Monitoring

eG Enterprise is Citrix Ready Certified Too

Its official! Three of our products – the Citrix Virtual Apps (XenApp) Monitor, the Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) Monitor, and the XenDesktop Monitor – are now Citrix Ready Certified. Please see these products in the Citrix Ready Products Catalog here. eG Enterprise is one of a handful of monitoring solutions today that are certified by...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
February 16, 2010
VMware Ready Certified
VMware Monitoring

VMware Ready Certified

Only a handful of products are VMware Ready certified. Find out why this matters and which products are certified and which ones are not!
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
February 8, 2010
Virtual Desktop Service – Who Should be Responsible?
Citrix Monitoring

Virtual Desktop Service – Who Should be Responsible?

You will be surprised at how many times thought provoking questions come up during conversations with prospects and customers! A few days back, we were on a WebEx, presenting our virtual desktop monitoring solution to one of the major telcos. They had all the experts involved in the VDI rollout on the conference call – the network...
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
February 1, 2010
Virtual Desktops – Boon or Bane?
Citrix Monitoring

Virtual Desktops – Boon or Bane?

Deploying virtual desktops? Know the monitoring and management challenges that await you along the path!
Srinivas Ramanathan
by Srinivas Ramanathan
January 25, 2010

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