With XenApp 6.5 nearing EOL in June 2018, organizations around the world are planning an upgrade to XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x. While the move from one version of 7.x to another could be considered an easy, in-place upgrade, the shift from 6.x to 7.x...
When I hear the word SIAM today, I think of two things. First, I think of Yul Brynner in The King and I….and second, I think of Service Integration and Management. Service Integration and Management (SIAM) seeks to combine the benefits of...
eG Innovations, a global Citrix technology partner, and DABCC joined hands to conduct an industry survey across 795 Citrix professionals worldwide. The survey was conducted between November 2017 and February 2018 across all verticals and industry...
For years, monitoring has used the terms ‘black box’ and ‘white box.’ Black box monitoring is outside-in; it tests externally visible behavior. Real user monitoring and service-level monitoring are examples. White box monitoring is...
The migration to cloud computing is like the gold rush days, a mad stampede of companies betting the farm on new business models powered by shiny nuggets of emerging technology-driven capabilities. But I think it’s worth a reminder that ‘the...
The continual cycle of monitoring and control has been – and will remain – a basis for setting strategy, design, delivery and improvement to digital business services. From a technology monitoring standpoint, as IT infrastructures evolve in...
With hundreds of monitoring products on the market and more on the way, there’s always been confusion in this space. Marketers use words like ‘root-cause’, ‘proactive’ and even ‘dashboards’ and ‘topology’ as if they were magical...
Evaluating a monitoring tool can be both time-consuming and frustrating. There are hundreds of products available, and each tends to serve a particular niche, so all of them seem to have some degree of value. But in most cases the...
Business transaction monitoring is a critical component of application performance monitoring (APM). It helps application owners get visibility into how server-side processing of the application code happens as end-users interact with web...
In a recent APMdigest article, eG Innovations Senior Product Marketing Manager Vinod Mohan offered a series of predictions for application performance monitoring in 2018. Here’s an excerpt: Application and Infrastructure Monitoring Will Need...