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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Summary: ExtraHop offers a great application performance management solution for the healthcare industry that helps healthcare IT teams efficiently support initiatives such as mobile applications, electronic health records (EHR), and policy compliance. This week we’re at the HIMSS12 Conference in Las Vegas, booth #5238.

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Forrester Research recently published a report on the application performance management (APM) market, titled “Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011.” Led by Principal Analyst and Forrester Vice President Jean-Pierre Garbani, the research proposes an APM reference model that customers can use to plan their APM strategies. The report goes on to evaluate 26 APM vendors, including ExtraHop Networks, in the context of the Forrester APM reference model.

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Virtualization and cloud computing are taking enterprise IT by storm. Every customer that we work with is either expanding their virtualization practice or looking to see how they can take advantage of the public cloud. Even so, we know many owners of business-critical applications are prudently cautious about migrating from physical to virtual infrastructure or adopting public cloud computing. 

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When trying to determine the value of application performance management (APM) tools within your IT department, often the first step is to consult both the application and network teams. They deal with application and network traffic day in and day out and in many organizations are the first to jump up in support of an APM solution. However, don’t overlook the storage team, an important stakeholder and potentially strong supporter of APM. Storage teams may not be the easy targets or the ones who use these tools every day, but there are several important scenarios where they will be sorely remiss without an APM solution in place that can monitor the storage tier:

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