This week ExtraHop announced new monitoring capabilities for Citrix VDI deployments, developed using the latest protocol specifications from Citrix and verified as Citrix Ready for both XenDesktop and XenApp.

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) continues to gain interest for its promise to centralize desktop and application management and provide end users with greater flexibility. Initially, IT organizations tasked with implementing a VDI infrastructure are mostly concerned with provisioning server, storage, and network capacity. But once those VDI deployments are in place, the concern swiftly shifts to monitoring performance.

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Next week will undoubtedly be one of the busiest, most exciting weeks for IT Operations professionals this year. Thousands of IT pros in the Citrix universe will be heading down to San Francisco for Citrix Synergy 2012. And thousands more will be off to what has become the Mecca of enterprise IT: Interop Las Vegas.

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[This post is written by Owen Cole, EMEA Vice President at ExtraHop Networks.]

For companies that operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, keeping critical business systems running is non-negotiable. Ecommerce is an obvious example of a business-critical application, but there are others: trading systems for financial services firms, electronic medical records systems for hospitals, ticketing and weight-and-balance applications for airlines, or warehouse and supply-chain applications for retail companies.

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The APM space is expanding and evolving at a rapid pace, leading to older established firms acquiring newer technologies to fill in the gaps in their solutions. As this evolution is certain to continue, it’s worth considering the two traditional approaches to any large enterprise IT effort, whether it be APM, BSM, BPM, SOA, ERP, SCM, or another three-letter acronym.

Read more on Best-of-Breed: A Cost-Effective Alternative to “Death Star APM”…

Virtualization continues to be something of a double-edged sword for businesses. One edge boosts the efficiency of IT infrastructures by providing improved flexibility, scalability, and significant cost savings. According to Veeam Software’s recent V-Index quarterly survey, the ratio of VMs to physical hosts is about 5 to 1, proving that VMs are good for an impressive 80 percent savings in physical machine investments.

Read more on Getting Clear on Virtual APM Appliances by Seeing Intra-VM Traffic…