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Citrix Admin? John Smith's Blog Can Make Your Life Easier
- Chase Snyder
- August 4, 2015
Citrix administrators can take their days back and stop troubleshooting other teams' problems with John Smith's advice.
The Return of the Generalist in IT
- John Smith
- May 20, 2014
I recently spoke at Citrix Synergy about the return of the generalist. It was a Geek Speak Live! session with several hundred Citrix engineers in attendance. It was an honor for me and something I've…
Seattle Children's Busts the "Ghost in the Machine" with ExtraHop
- Rachel Pepple
- May 7, 2014
Like many hospitals, Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Institute relies heavily on a Citrix-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to provide doctors and nurses with access to critical data…
HTTP Compression and Other ADC Optimization Wins
- Tyson Supasatit
- March 15, 2014
Most enterprise IT organizations use application delivery controllers (ADCs) to improve the availability, speed, and efficiency of the IT infrastructure. However, ADCs offer limited metrics to help in…
How McKesson Found the Perfect Rx for Slow Citrix Apps with ExtraHop
- Rachel Pepple
- February 27, 2014
Over the past decade, healthcare has grown to be the largest industry in the US, accounting for roughly 20 percent of GDP and 13 percent of the U.S. workforce. If there's ever been an industry where…
Monitoring the Performance of Citrix XenDesktop 7 with ExtraHop
- Tyson Supasatit
- May 22, 2013
Citrix officially launched XenDesktop 7 at Citrix Synergy 2013 this week in Los Angeles. We're at the conference to demonstrate how the ExtraHop platform equips IT organizations with the correlated…
ExtraHop Application Performance Monitoring Comes to the Cisco UCS Express Platform
- Justin Baker
- June 12, 2012
Cisco continues to promote its Unified Computing System (UCS) vision for simplifying IT at Cisco Live this week where ExtraHop will be exhibiting at booth #2110. UCS products combine x86 server…
Five Reasons ExtraHop Beats the Competition at Monitoring Citrix VDI
- Justin Baker
- May 9, 2012
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…
Join ExtraHop at Interop Las Vegas and Citrix Synergy!
- Justin Baker
- May 3, 2012
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…
Why Healthcare IT Teams Need Agentless Application Performance Monitoring
- Justin Baker
- February 20, 2012
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…
To Nagle or Not to Nagle, That is the Question
- Justin Baker
- February 25, 2009
In our work with customers, we've come across the question of Nagling quite a few times. When we show network engineers that they have a relatively high number of Nagle Delays, it's not unusual to…
Replay of an IT Support Incident - ExtraHop In the Wild
- Justin Baker
- February 12, 2009
A fun part of the ExtraHop customer engagement model is something we call the "Show-n-Tell". For any customer evaluation, we'll install the box (a 15-minute process), let the box "soak-in" for a few…