Name: Will VDI Save You in the Next Generation Workplace?
Start: 2012-03-15T15:00:00Z
End: 2012-03-15T15:59:44.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Hosted and virtual desktops provide an obvious benefit for organizations looking to roll out standardize desktops quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Whether it is remote desktop virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, thin clients, remote desktop services or even Desktop as a Service, join this channel to learn best practices and industry trends about desktop virtualization

GPU technology improves Citrix virtual desktops and applications, but to truly deliver an immersive user experience that scales, organizations need to manage the complete GPU deployment lifecycle – from designing the infrastructure, to managing and optimizing a production environment, to responding to user issues dynamically, in real-time.  

eG Innovations in partnership with NVIDIA is delivering comprehensive monitoring capabilities that enable IT to better manage all aspects of the user experience, tapping into new GPU-sourced insights that aid in design right-sizing, proactive infrastructure optimization and help desk issue remediation.  This new joint solution integrates eG Enterprise with NVIDIA GRID software to provide actionable insights through host-level, guest-level, and application-level analytics.

Attend this webinar to learn how to deliver complete lifecycle management of the end user experience for GPU-powered applications and desktops.

Managing the End User Experience with GPU-Powered Insights

Performance management of Citrix technologies has always been a challenge. Determining if user complaints of Citrix logon slowness, session disconnects,  screen freezes, etc. are caused by the Citrix stack or by one of the supporting tiers has often been a time consuming and knowledge intensive process. Virtualization of Citrix applications has only added to the challenge. 

Join this webinar "A Deep Dive Into Comprehensive Citrix & VDI Monitoring with eG Enterprise" to learn how eG Innovations, one of the earliest Citrix-focused monitoring software vendors, has been adapting its eG Enterprise solution to keep pace with Citrix technology evolution. 

In this webinar, Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations will join Trond Eirik Haavarstein (aka Eric) of xenappblog.com to discuss how eG Enterprise provides: 

– Proactive monitoring of the Citrix user experience, to discover problems before users complain;
– Embedded best practices for end-to-end visibility in the Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop 7.x stack;
– End-to-end performance visibility combined with automated root-cause diagnosis that helps answer even the toughest of Citrix performance questions;
– Performance optimization and right-sizing so you can get the most of your Citrix investments;
– Integration with built-in Citrix monitoring solutions - Citrix Director, Citrix – NetScaler Insight and Citrix SCOM management packs; 
– The discussion will also cover new capabilities in the latest eG Enterprise 6.1 release.

Deep Dive Into Comprehensive Citrix & VDI Monitoring with eG Enterprise

93% of respondents to the 2016 Citrix Performance Survey see Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop as 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 common complaints that Citrix administrators have to deal with these days. 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.

Join us for this webinar, ‘Choosing a Citrix Monitoring Strategy: Key Capabilities and Pitfalls to Avoid‘, where Citrix Certified Expert Rob Beekmans, Senior Consultant with PQR, a Citrix Platinum Advisor, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, will discuss the key requirements of effective Citrix performance monitoring as well as common pitfalls you need to avoid.

Choosing a Citrix Monitoring Strategy | Key Capabilities & Pitfalls to Avoid

Today, poor user experience is a business problem, not just an IT problem. If the performance of your web applications is consistently poor, your users will take their business to a competitor.

Traditionally, IT managers have been “data center” focused, looking at system resource metrics rather than the end user experience. Even when performance is considered at the application level, the metrics are based on individual elements (SQL response time, application heap usage, etc.) and are not focused on what is really happening from the users’ perspective. The data center-centric approach is insufficient for effective application performance management. Performance could be perfectly fine on the server-side, but be horrible when viewed from the end user perspective. 

Watch this webinar to learn how to monitor, diagnose and report on the real user experience for your business-critical web applications.

How to Monitor the Real User Experience for Your Web Applications

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are among the most performance-critical technologies being used in enterprise networks today. Just a small glitch - anywhere in your infrastructure - can result in a poor user experience. The growing number of tiers in the Citrix stack and the increased use of virtualization technologies and cloud-based services all make Citrix performance management even more challenging.  
 
In this webinar, you will discover why enterprises utilizing Citrix technologies must look to adopt a monitoring strategy that is focused on three key dimensions - reach, depth and speed. You will learn why:  
 
-  Reach of performance monitoring to cover every layer of every tier of the Citrix infrastructure is important to help identify and remediate slowdowns - regardless of their origin  
-  Depth of visibility into the Citrix stack and the other tiers matters for ensuring truly preventive performance management  
-  Speed of problem resolution is critical for ensuring user satisfaction and how it can be achieved through automatic analysis, baselining and root-cause diagnosis  
 
In addition, we will address how a comprehensive performance monitoring solution goes well beyond routine troubleshooting and problem isolation by helping to optimize and right-size the infrastructure as well as deliver maximum value for the organization's IT investment.

Monitoring Citrix in 3D: A Must for Delivering Great User Experience

Application and desktop virtualization offer so much promise for smart growth, flexibility and cost savings in healthcare IT today, but along with this potential comes substantial risk. Poor performance and a bad end-user experience can degrade productivity, inflate management costs and, worst of all, negatively impact quality of care and patient satisfaction. At the same time, the healthcare IT infrastructure has increased in both scale and complexity. Hence, administrators struggle to determine when a slowdown happens, what is the cause: Citrix? VMware? Storage? Windows? A Specific Application? 

Join us  for this webinar where, along with HiMSS,  Wendy Howard, Infrastructure Engineer with St. Charles Healthcare and Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO with eG Innovations, will discuss how implementing unified performance management powered a transformation from difficult, slow and reactive performance troubleshooting to well-planned, strategic rollouts, proactive maintenance, simple executive reporting and rapid caregiver support.

Leveraging Unified IT Performance Management for Patient Care & Satisfaction

The goal of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is to lower the operational costs of supporting an organization’s desktops and laptops. A VDI project should make it easier for IT to support users, keep the organization safe from viruses and better protect its data assets. The key to a successful VDI project is user adoption. But while many organizations consider using an All-Flash Array (AFA) to deliver the performance that will lead to user adoption, the problem is AFAs drive up the cost per desktop, increase the vulnerability of the architecture and encourage additional storage silos. 

Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudistics for an informative webinar that will provide an alternative approach that meets user’s performance expectations while leveraging existing – and often already paid for – storage hardware and does not introduce new silos of storage.

Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems

Citrix application infrastructures are very performance sensitive. A small problem anywhere in your infrastructure can quickly lead to frustrated users complaining to the help desk that “Citrix is slow” or “Citrix is not working”. You then have to spend hours finding out where the real problem lies before you can resolve it and restore a positive user experience. Is it really a Citrix issue, or is the issue actually originating somewhere else in the infrastructure – i.e., the network, application, virtual platform, storage, etc.?
 
In this webinar, Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, will discuss how you can extend Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor and manage Citrix infrastructures end to end, so when a user complains that Citrix is slow, you can pinpoint exactly where the cause of the problem lies — in just one click.

Monitor & Manage Citrix Application Performance Using Microsoft SCOM

To extend Microsoft SCOM for heterogeneous environments that include Citrix, SAP, Siebel, VMware, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Java, etc., 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.

The eG Enterprise Microsoft SCOM Management Pack allows you to centrally monitor performance both across your entire infrastructure and deep throughout each individual tier, automatically identifying the root causes of performance issues, improving service delivery, saving time and increasing IT value. 

In this live solution tour, you will learn 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.

Transform MS SCOM into an End-to-End Monitoring Powerhouse w/ The "One Monitor"

Virtual desktops are being widely adopted as a cost-effective way of providing users access to enterprise applications. Performance of these desktops and the scalability of virtual desktop deployments are a key to the success of these IT initiatives.

In this webinar, Jeff Stokes, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft and Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO, eG Innovations will focus on Windows virtual desktops and VDI image creation best practices that you can adopt to get the most of your virtual desktop infrastructure investments. Some topics will include:

- Best practices for building images in persistent and non-persistent virtual desktop deployments 
- Tools for building optimized virtual desktop images 
- Optimization techniques for Windows 7, 8 and 10 workloads
- Performance impact of changes and how to measure them at the desktop level

Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Windows Virtual Desktop Deployments

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. 

The heterogeneous, multi-tier, inter-dependent nature of the underlying infrastructure makes performance monitoring, diagnosis and reporting a challenge. When users complain that “the virtual desktop or application is slow”, IT administrators often struggle to determine the actual cause of the problem. Is it the network, database, application, virtualization platform, connection server, storage or the virtual desktop?

This webinar will help you learn how to 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.

Ensure The Success of VMware Horizon View Deployments

IDC Announces the Best Vendors for Client Computing Software

In the multi-device workplace, there are many vendors IT can choose from to better manage applications and desktops.  So, which vendors offer the best client computing solutions with a commitment to long-term end-user computing innovation?  

Find out how a variety of vendors compare and the reasons why VMware has moved into the Leaders category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Virtual Client Computing Software 2015 Vendor Assessment.

Join us and learn:
Which vendors are well aligned when it comes to customer needs
Which vendors offer the best client computing solutions with a commitment to long-term end-user computing innovation?
Which vendors have the commitment to providing resources and continued expansion of the EUC infrastructure

IDC MarketScape: 2015 Vendor Assessment - Virtual Client Computing Software

Last year, VMware announced the launch of VMware Horizon® 6 with RDS and full support for remoted applications. This release supported end users with seamless access to all of their virtual desktops and applications—including RDS hosted apps, packaged apps with ThinApp®, SaaS apps, and even virtualized apps from Citrix—through a single unified workspace.

Watch this on-demand webcast to see the six key enhancements to Horizon 6, including features that help you deliver unlimited access to desktops and apps at lower costs, with better performance (think 3D!) - at unprecedented scale, and new technology demonstrations that bring together virtual networking, storage, desktops and apps.

Accelerate your Desktop Transformation Strategy

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 are fast becoming the standard platforms for deploying application and desktop virtualization. Based on the new Flexcast Management Architecture (FMA), XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 provides a unified platform that makes application and desktop delivery fast and easy.
 
Join us for the Top Eight Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 live webinar to learn how to take advantage of all the new Citrix features and enhancements to improve the security, manageability and remote access of your virtual applications and desktops.

Deploying Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop 7.6 | Top 8 Best Practices

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.

Watch this webinar to learn how to optimize your virtualized Citrix infrastructure for peak performance and end user satisfaction as the five most common performance problems and best practices are discussed.

Detect & Resolve 5 Common Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop Performance Challenges

A growing number of companies are virtualizing Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop on VMware vSphere to reduce cost and boost flexibility. While Citrix virtualization seems like a straightforward project, some issues - like performance problems, delayed deployments, cost overruns and frustrated users - can occur. In this webinar, find out how to prevent these issues through discovering the top five challenges and best practices for virtualizing Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop environments on vSphere.

Virtualizing Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop on VMware vSphere | Top 5 Best Practices

Desktop computers have been in existence for over 30 years, but the innovation in the last 10 years has fundamentally transformed the way we use them.  The desktop is now increasingly found in the cloud, thanks to the technological advancements leading to the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).  While VDI has been in existence for the past 8 years or so, it has become more relevant in the banking and insurance industries in recent years.  Insurance agents and Wealth Managers work in a heavily regulated industry.  While adhering to heavy regulations, the Insurance Agents and Wealth Managers have a critical need to access important information in real time to better serve their clients. 
 
Now with VDI they’re able to break free from the limitations of the traditional infrastructure, being able to access real time information any time anywhere, enabling them to focus on their clients’ needs. Join us in this session to learn from Craig Beattie from Celent and Muthu Somasundaram from VMware, how VDI has helped accelerate the pace of innovation in the Insurance and Wealth management industry, while maintaining compliance with all regulations.

Unleashing the Power of VDI in Banking & Insurance

Configuring a VDI image is a complex task for the systems engineer. This session will help prepare the engineer for creating an image as well as vetting and troubleshooting it before it gets to production. Topics include:
 
- Image Creation Best Practices (Scripts, What-to-dos, What not-to-dos)
- Image Testing (Tools free and not)
- Troubleshooting (How to find out what’s wrong when it goes wrong)
- VDI Deployments (Why?)
- User Experience Monitoring (You need it, but how?)

VDI Workshop: Image Creation, Optimization and Troubleshooting

The desktop landscape is changing and the future is uncertain. With mobile devices and bring-your-own devices becoming more popular in the workplace, IT departments will need to find a solution to bridge all devices in the enterprise. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) may be that solution. Join this panel as industry experts discuss whether VDI can save your organization as the traditional desktop dissolves in the next generation workplace. Key topics of this discussion will include:

- Differences between VDI, desktop virtualization and desktop management
- Benefits and drawbacks of mobile devices and desktop virtualization
- VDI and its role in the next generation workplace

Will VDI Save You in the Next Generation Workplace?

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