Is Citrix Cloud Enterprise Ready? Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Citrix Cloud Deployments

One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in to the helpdesk complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving such issues? A Citrix deployment has many infrastructure tiers and dependencies. Where do you initially focus your investigations, what do you analyze, and how do you triage? George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting.

Check out this presentation and learn how the new SaaS-based monitoring service from eG Innovations helps Citrix customers with performance management of their digital workpace environments.

This webinar highlights how next-generation application performance monitoring & analytics provides deep visibility into the Java stack to accelerate the diagnosis of application performance issues and quickly restore user experience. During the live demonstration, we will show how to: - Have a single unified monitoring solution that addresses your application monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting needs; - Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance inside the Java stack and across the tiers of your IT environment to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis; - View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate Java application performance metrics to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more; - Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI;

See live the brand-new release of eG Enterprise v6 – the first intelligent performance monitoring solution designed to simplify the management of today’s complex and distributed IT environments. Find out how eG Enterprise helps you make IT Operations more productive, reduce IT support cost & complexity, and keep your end users happy & productive. During the demonstration, we will show how you can: - Have a single unified solution that addresses your application monitoring, database monitoring, server monitoring, network monitoring, virtualization monitoring, service monitoring and even mobile device monitoring needs; - Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance across the tiers to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis; - View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate performance metrics to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more; - Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI; - Address gaps in your current monitoring for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), multi-tier Java applications and heavily virtualized IT environments – in the cloud or on-premise;

A great user experience is key for the success of any Citrix application virtualization or desktop virtualization initiative. To ensure user satisfaction and productivity, Citrix administrators should monitor the user experience proactively, detect times when users are likely to be seeing slowness, pinpoint the cause of such issues and initiate corrective actions to quickly resolve issues, thereby ensuring user satisfaction and productivity. A key question is where should the monitoring of the Citrix infrastructure be performed from - the network, the server infrastructure, or from the client? View this presentation to: • Learn about the different approaches to Citrix user experience monitoring, their benefits and shortcomings • Hear about a hybrid approach that provides the most cost-effective yet comprehensive monitoring for a Citrix server farm • See a live demonstration of the hybrid Citrix monitoring approach and its ability to cover all aspects of Citrix user experience

Logon is a user's first interaction with the Citrix digital workspace service, and hence, a slow logon can influence a user's opinion of the service in a way that no other metric can. Therefore, logon time is the #1 key performance indicator (KPI) in Citrix environments. Slow logons have an impact not just on user perception, but also on productivity. When each logon takes minutes — maybe on multiple systems — it results in lost work time and costs the business. So, it is imperative that logons be as quick and non-intrusive as possible. But how can we make this happen? Learn some of the best practices for Citrix Logon time optimization.

This document outlines a presentation about using eG Enterprise to provide fast and easy performance monitoring of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop environments. It discusses how current Citrix performance management can be slow and manual when issues span multiple tiers. eG Enterprise provides comprehensive, automated monitoring across infrastructure tiers to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks through a single intelligent dashboard. The presentation includes examples of how eG Enterprise detected and alerted on memory, CPU, and disk I/O bottlenecks through automated diagnosis and pre-emptive detection.

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 business revenue can be negatively impacted. Check out these slides from Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, a Citrix-Ready Partner, so you can discover how to address common performance challenges as well as learn some Citrix performance monitoring best practices, including how you can: • Resolve user complaints at the helpdesk, without escalating issues to Citrix experts • Troubleshoot and resolve Citrix logon slowness issues quickly • Find the root-cause of "Citrix is slow" complaints and determine what is causing the problem - i.e., network, VMware, Active Directory, application, Citrix, storage, etc. • Respond to 'my browser is slow in Citrix' - is it the browser users are accessing or something else? • Go from reactive to proactive monitoring of your Citrix services and keep users satisfied and productive

VMware Horizon View allows IT organizations to deliver virtual or hosted desktops and applications through a single platform to users. The success of these virtual desktop deployments is linked to the user experience: virtual desktops have to deliver better performance than physical desktops. This webinar presentation helps you learn how you can unlock the benefits of desktop and application virtualization by enabling your organization to monitor, diagnose and report on the performance of your VMware Horizon View infrastructure.

The Oracle database platform is powering many of today's business-critical applications and services. As applications and IT infrastructures are getting more complex and interconnected, performance issues anywhere in the IT infrastructure can quickly cascade and negatively impact end user experience. When Oracle database access is slow, is the issue with the Oracle database configuration or sizing? Or could it because of the storage tier? Virtualization platform? Application queries? Network? Join this live demo to see how next-generation performance monitoring & analytics provides deep visibility into Oracle database environments to accelerate the diagnosis of application and server performance issues, and quickly restore user experience. During the live demonstration, we will show you how to: • Have a single unified monitoring solution that addresses your database, virtualization, network and storage monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting needs; • Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance inside the database server and across the other tiers of your IT environment to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis; • View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate performance metrics regarding the database and other tiers to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more; • Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI;

This document discusses maximizing performance and end user experience in Citrix Workspace projects. It emphasizes the need for end-to-end visibility across all layers and tiers, from the user experience down to infrastructure, to quickly diagnose and resolve issues. eG Innovations provides a unified performance management solution that monitors every component to reliably deliver business services and optimize the user experience.

This document provides a summary of a webinar about troubleshooting Citrix performance problems. It discusses the impact of poor Citrix performance, including lost productivity and costs. It outlines a 3-step process for troubleshooting Citrix problems: 1) determine the scope of the problem, 2) determine the magnitude of the problem, and 3) determine the source of the problem. Specific tips are provided for troubleshooting common Citrix problems like slow logons, slow application launches, session disconnects, and frozen sessions. The role of monitoring, automation, and keeping systems updated is also discussed.

Citrix XenDesktop 7 represents a radical change in the desktop virtualization space, providing a unified solution for delivery of virtual desktops and applications on demand. But is the best virtual desktop platform alone sufficient to guarantee desktop virtualization success? Attend this webinar to learn about next-gen performance monitoring best practices that you need to put in place to get the most out of your XenDesktop 7 investments and reliably deliver virtual desktops to more users and without glitches or cost/time overruns. Join desktop virtualization expert Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) and learn how to: - Deliver superior end-user experience, simplify management, and reduce total cost of ownership of Citrix XenDesktop 7 virtual desktop environments - Utilize next-gen management solutions that complement Citrix Director/EdgeSight to accelerate troubleshooting - Boost user productivity by means of powerful analytics and reporting, deep performance visibility, and auto-correlated diagnosis - across every layer, every tier of the XenDesktop 7 infrastructure - Assure virtual desktop user satisfaction by pre-emptively detecting and resolving performance issues - before users notice - Ensure maximum ROI by right-sizing your XenDesktop 7 infrastructure using powerful reporting & analytics

If you are managing or operating Java-based web applications, you have probably heard your users complain many a time that "the application is slow". After spending hours, you find out that the issue was not your application, but with a third party service that your application relies upon. Web application performance issues can also occur due to code problems, database table locks or slowness on the browser, to name a few reasons. Learn how to troubleshoot four real-world performance issues with Java-based web applications in minutes.

Competition in the digital services world is about managing the customer experience. The cloud is an operating model, and migrating workloads to the cloud involves much more than ‘lift & shift’. In fact, the heavy lifting of cloud migrations may be much more about people than technologies. Managing customer expectations requires that the user experience be at least as good—if not better—after a cloud migration than it was before the migration took place. Customers really don’t care about the ‘cloud’ per se, they care about the outcomes that cloud-based services can provide. Learn how you can manage customer expectations and leverage services-oriented monitoring as a program of work within a cloud migration.

Many of today's business-critical applications and services are running on heterogeneous server platforms. Most enterprise have a mix of UNIX servers running Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux, HPUX, Novell SuSE Linux, CentOS or Free BSD and Microsoft Windows servers. As applications and IT infrastructures are getting more complex and interconnected, performance issues anywhere in the IT infrastructure can quickly cascade and negatively impact end user experience. Watch this webinar to see how next-generation performance monitoring & analytics provides deep visibility into UNIX and Windows environments to accelerate the diagnosis of application and server performance issues, and quickly restore user experience. During the live demonstration, we will show you how to: • Have a single unified monitoring solution that addresses your server & application monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting needs; • Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance inside the server and across the tiers of your IT environment to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis; • View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate server performance metrics to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more; • Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI;

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a leading monitoring platform for Microsoft applications. However, SCOM is limited in its support for non-Microsoft systems and applications (e.g., Citrix, SAP, Siebel, VMware, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Java, etc.). To extend SCOM for heterogeneous environments, multiple management packs are often deployed - one for each non-Microsoft platform. But the lack of integration between management packs leads to long problem identification and diagnosis cycles, resulting in poor user experience and loss in productivity. This is where eG Enterprise Microsoft SCOM Universal Management Pack comes in. View this presentation to see how to escape siloed monitoring and leverage your SCOM environment to gain real-time insight into every factor that affects your end users’ experience, across your entire infrastructure.

Achieving a single pane of glass for performance management has been an elusive goal for most organizations, as they are faced with an increasingly complex mix of legacy, physical, virtual and cloud technologies. Organizations now have a variety of cloud-based options for delivering virtualized applications and desktops. A key question to answer on their cloud adoption journey is: “Does Citrix Cloud services make performance monitoring easier than it was for on-premise deployments?” Check out these slides and learn: -- What Citrix Cloud is and how it works -- What deployment options are available -- What performance challenges to expect -- What monitoring options are available You will also learn best practices for setting up end-to-end performance management for Citrix Cloud environments.

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Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x have introduced radical enhancements in the delivery architecture of virtual applications and desktop infrastructures, key enhancements include new components, delivery mechanisms, protocols, configurations, and policies. Additionally, Citrix has also introduced new services, features and enhancements in the Citrix Cloud to deliver Secure Digital Workspace. In light of the magnitude of these enhancements, the best practices used for monitoring earlier versions of XenApp and XenDesktop are not sufficient any longer. Here are some performance monitoring best practices you need to have in place to deliver a great digital workspace experience for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x and Citrix Cloud Services.

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This document outlines a presentation about Citrix performance management. It discusses the challenges of managing performance in complex virtualized environments and introduces eG Innovations' product, eG Enterprise, as a solution. eG Enterprise provides full-stack visibility across networks, servers, applications and more to help automatically diagnose issues, enable preemptive detection and alerting, and optimize resource usage for better ROI. The presentation encourages an approach of monitoring the overall user experience rather than individual infrastructure silos.

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Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are two of the most performance sensitive technologies in use in enterprise networks today. Slow logins, frequent session disconnects and slow screen refreshes are just some of the common complaints that Citrix administrators have to deal with. Furthermore, often when a user complains that their desktop is slow or an application is slow to launch, the issue is not in the Citrix tiers – but instead in the network, the virtualization platform, or storage tiers. End-to-end visibility, root-cause diagnosis and proactive alerting are therefore key requirements for Citrix administrators. Watch this CUGC webinar by Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, as he discusses - - Key requirements for Citrix performance monitoring - Where Citrix Director helps, and its limitations - When you will need to consider Citrix NetScaler Insight Center - The pros and cons of the Citrix management packs for Microsoft SCOM - How can we augment the built-in Citrix tools, providing end-to-end visibility, rapid diagnosis and advanced reporting for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

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This document discusses monitoring applications deployed across multiple cloud platforms. It notes that 92% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy and that operational complexity increases in these environments. A demo application is described that is deployed across AWS and Azure to showcase issues that can occur. The presentation emphasizes that traditional monitoring tools are insufficient for multi-cloud and that capabilities like auto-discovery, intelligent alerting, visualizations and root cause analysis are needed to effectively monitor applications in these environments.

As more businesses adopt cloud technologies for their various benefits it must be noted that not all cloud offerings are the same and provide different services or infra SLA. Do you know that not all SLA from cloud providers mean your application will be ensured similar availability? Depending on whether you are leveraging Saas, Paas, Iaas, etc to deliver your applications, you will have a different level of visibility and control of how you manage performance and deliver the user experience expected by your users. Join the session and find out what remains within your responsibility and how you can monitor the various cloud infrastructure/services to give yourself the needed visibility to deliver the expected user experience without over-provisioning to ensure better performance.

Historically, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools have mainly been focused on providing code level visibility for web applications. IT managers have had to deploy these solutions to complement infrastructure monitoring solutions to get end-to-end visibility across applications and services. To understand how the APM needs of organizations have evolved in the next normal, eG Innovations and DevOps Institute conducted a survey. Over 900 software professionals - DevOps engineers, SREs, ITOps teams and system admins – shared their knowledge and thinking. We’ve invited Eveline Oehrlich, Chief Research Officer at DevOps Institute and ex-Forrester VP and Research Director to join us to dissect the results of this survey. Eveline will share her experiences and knowledge within the APM space, discuss trends and will discuss what the future of APM should look like. Also joining the discussion will be Arun Aravamudhan, Head of Java APM and Web Products and web products at eG Innovations. We are looking forward to you joining this webinar. Here are some highlights on what we will cover: - Why APM is no longer just about code-level analysis - The need for converged application and infrastructure monitoring - The strategy for Kubernetes and cloud monitoring in the next normal - The challenges with native cloud monitoring options - Application performance management has gained management attention Register now and learn the current state of APM adoption and how business needs in the next normal will change how APM should be leveraged.

By offering a unified place for people to access any app, whether SaaS, web, mobile or virtual digital workspaces have become mission-critical for the new way of work. As digital workspaces evolve in scale, complexity and business importance Citrix Admins need unified visibility and actionable insights to diagnose and resolve performance issues across the entire IT environment—both physical and virtual; both on-premises and cloud.   This requires deep Citrix domain expertise along with end-to-end visibility across Citrix and non-Citrix tiers; which can quickly overwhelm most Citrix administrators. Citrix Admins need a virtual assistant to:   • Proactively monitor digital workspace user experience • Automatically isolate and remediate performance issues • Align capacity to changing business and user requirements • Improve user experience with embedded analytics   Join John Worthington, Director Customer Success and Nanda Kumar, Director Solutions Engineering at eG Innovations, for an action-packed demonstration of how eG Enterprise is the digital assistant every Citrix Admin needs.

Many IT monitoring tools fail in the real-world because they are reactive to events that have happened. The first time the IT team knows there is a problem is when the service desk sees a pile of tickets with users complaining that their “application is slow.” Adding a layer of synthetic monitoring can make ITOps go from being reactive to proactive. This helps the ITOps team to cut down on the number of service desk tickets because you can see where the bottlenecks are before end-users even notice. While logon simulators are ubiquitous for Citrix and VMware Horizon environments, users really care about whether the applications they use in their job such as SAP, Office, Epic or Salesforce are responsive and usable. Join us for this webinar where you will learn: - How to record and automate REAL workflows to test any application – web apps or thick apps within a published desktops like Citrix, VMware Horizon, Amazon WorkSpaces, Microsoft AVD, etc. - How to check that web apps used by your employees are not just responsive but working as expected – this is critical for businesses that rely on SaaS applications like Office 365 and Salesforce - How to validate that employees are able to logon to published desktops AND perform routine tasks in applications like SAP and Epic - How to correlate the performance of the application with the underlying IT infrastructure to determine if bottlenecks are on the users’ network, in the third-party application or within your infrastructure If you are struggling to be proactive, or to shift from monitoring resources to monitoring the digital experience of your users, then you need to attend this webinar to see just how easy it is to get started with synthetic monitoring.