• User state can be stored separately and delivered just-in-time to enable workers to roam from workspace to workspace
• Users’ profiles can co-exist in mixed OS environments or automatically migrate from one OS to the next, making OS upgrades easy and essentially irrelevant during a point-in-time upgrade
• Integral policies and self-managed settings, such as local and network printer management, as well as security policies, can be readily restored in the event of a PC failure or loss (disaster recovery)
  

The technology of cloud computing has caught up with virtual desktop infrastructures. Tapping into the agility and flexibility of cloud-hosted infrastructures, Citrix Cloud enables organizations to simplify digital workspace delivery. With many of the critical components of the Citrix delivery infrastructure hosted in the cloud and managed by Citrix, organizations can speed up deployment, lower hardware footprint, increase ROI, simplify IT operations. Despite the many benefits of Citrix Cloud, the performance management challenges still persist, just as they do in traditional on-premises Citrix deployments.

Read this eG Innovations white paper, and understand:

• The two popular Citrix Cloud deployment options
• Performance monitoring challenges in Citrix Cloud infrastructures
• Stakeholders involved and their respective domains of responsibility
• The various monitoring tools and options available
• Best practices to set up performance monitoring

Mobility, security and compliance, automation, and the demand for “the workspace of the future” are just some of the challenges that businesses face today.

The cloud is best positioned to support these challenges, but it can be hard to pick the right kind of cloud and find the right balance between cost and benefits.

Parallels Introduction
Parallels is a global leader in cross-platform technologies and is renowned for its award-winning software solutions that cut complexity and lower costs for a wide range of industries, including healthcare, education, banking and finance, manufacturing, the public sector, and many others.

Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) provides easy-to-use, comprehensive application and desktop delivery that enables business and public-sector organizations to seamlessly integrate virtual Windows applications and desktops on nearly any device or operating system.

ThinPrint Introduction
ThinPrint is a global leader in solutions that support an organization’s digital transformation, helping ensure users can draw on highly reliable and innovative print solutions that support today’s and tomorrow’s requirements.

Joint Value Statement

Together, Parallels and ThinPrint allow an organization to become a cloud-ready business on its own terms, with unprecedented ease and cost-effectiveness.

We support any endpoint device from a desktop PC to a smartphone or tablet, can deploy on-premise or in the cloud, and follow your business as it completes its digital transformation.

You may decide to start digitally transforming your business by delivering applications or desktops from an existing server in your datacenter and move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure later. You can also replace user workstations with newer, more mobile devices, or expand from an initial pilot group to new use cases for the entire company.

Whatever your plans are, Parallels and ThinPrint will help you implement them with easy, cost-effective solutions and the ability to adapt to future challenges.

In The Forrester Wave: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring, Q2 2019, Forrester identified the 13 most significant IASM providers in the market today, with Zenoss ranked amongst them as a Leader.

“As complexity grows, I&O teams struggle to obtain full visibility into their environments and do troubleshooting. To meet rising customer expectations, operations leaders need new monitoring technologies that can provide a unified view of all components of a service, from application code to infrastructure.”

Who Should Read This

Enterprise organizations looking for a solution to provide:

• Strong root-cause analysis and remediation
• Digital customer experience measurement capabilities
• Ease of deployment across the customer’s whole environment, positioning themselves to successfully deliver intelligent application and service monitoring
  

Our Takeaways

Trends impacting the infrastructure and operations (I&O) team include:

• Operations leaders favor a unified view
• AI/machine learning adoption reaches 72% within the next 12 months
• Intelligent root-cause analysis soon to become table stakes
• Monitoring the digital customer experience becomes a priority
• Ease and speed of deployment are differentiators
  

With digital transformation a constantly evolving reality for the modern organization, businesses are called upon to manage complex workloads across multiple public and private clouds—in addition to their on-premises systems.

The upside of the hybrid cloud strategy is that businesses can benefit from both lowered costs and dramatically increased agility and flexibility. The problem, however, is maintaining a secure environment through challenges like data security, regulatory compliance, external threats to the service provider, rogue IT usage and issues related to lack of visibility into the provider’s infrastructure.

Find out how to optimize your hybrid cloud workload through system hardening, incident detection, active defense and mitigation, quarantining and more. Plus, learn how to ensure protection and performance in your environment through an ideal hybrid cloud workload protection solution that:

•    Provides the necessary level of protection for different workloads
•    Delivers an essential set of technologies
•    Is structured as a comprehensive, multi-layered solution
•    Avoids performance degradation for services or users
•    Supports compliance by satisfying a range of regulation requirements
•    Enforces consistent security policies through all parts of hybrid infrastructure
•    Enables ongoing audit by integrating state of security reports
•    Takes account of continuous infrastructure changes

Citrix application and desktop virtualization technologies are widely used by organizations that are embarking on digital transformation initiatives. The success of these initiatives is closely tied to ensuring a great user experience for end users as they access their virtual apps and desktops. Given the multitude of components and services that make up the Citrix delivery architecture, administrators constantly face an uphill challenge in measuring performance and knowing what key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor.

We have invited George Spiers (https://www.jgspiers.com/), who is a Citrix architect with rich experience in consulting and implementing Citrix technologies for organizations in various sectors, to write this guest blog and enlighten us on the topic of Citrix monitoring. George is also a Citrix Technology Professional and has contributed immensely to the Citrix community. Read on to see what George thinks are the top 10 most important metrics that Citrix administrators must monitor.