Following up on my previous post, Layer Models are Alive and Well, this article dives deeper into event management and monitoring. The purpose of event management and monitoring is to make sense of events, and while this may require some analytics...
Many have made the claim that the ISO 7-layer model is dead, and since it’s been around since the 1970’s it’s easy to understand why. But that doesn’t mean ALL layer models are dead. In fact, a layer model remains an easy way to quickly...
I read an interesting report from the Citrix Technology Office which used the term “infotoxification”: People today are expected to filter, understand and act upon an enormous mountain of data. Consequently they are overwhelmed; they are...
Monitoring is one of the most critical aspects of IT administration and management. Various means can be adopted for performance monitoring — many administrators use a commercial monitoring solution, others rely on open source tools (e.g., Nagios...
Installing performance management and monitoring software may not be the same as implementing telemetry throughout an IT organization. As the scope of performance management and monitoring software evolves, investments in management software can...
As a follow up to our previous post, we have some more poll data to share from our Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x webinar in late August. During the webinar we polled the 500+ attendees to find out where they were with the Citrix XA/XD 7.x...
As part of our Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x webinar in late August, we polled the 500+ attendees to find out where they were with the Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.x rollout: These numbers...
Peak performance and a positive user experience are the keys to the success of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop deployments to virtualize your applications and desktops. When application slowness occurs – and users notice – productivity and...
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...
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...