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...
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...
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...
Below are some interesting statistics regarding the adoption and growth of virtualization technologies. These stats are from a recent VMware presentation. What percent of workloads are virtualized currently? The results indicate a continued...
For long, cloud performance management has been an overloaded term. Initially, it referred to the ability to collect metrics from public cloud providers like Amazon EC2. At eG Innovations, we believe that there is a whole lot more to cloud...
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...
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 they...
Last week featured the big announcement regarding vSphere 5 and VMware’s cloud offerings. A lot of discussion has been prompted by VMware’s new vRAM-based licensing model. One of the better articles on the new vSphere licensing can be...
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...
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...