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...
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...
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...
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 increase in adoption of virtualization technologies...
Cloud Based Monitoring for Top System Performance 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...
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...
Clearly, anything cloud is hot these days. 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...
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 to realize that applications hosted in...
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...
If you are responsible for a virtual 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...
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...
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...