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How do you really know if your EHR running on Citrix is ready for the workday?

Healthcare environments must ensure application availability around the clock to serve the needs of their patients. In many hospitals, while they serve patients 24×7, there is typically a lighter overnight load, but by the time the sun rises, healthcare teams start staffing in full force. Oftentimes applications in healthcare are deployed via Citrix. The Citrix infrastructure can be complex and adding an EHR application such as EPIC can make early morning health checks take a long time.

The Truth About AIOps

If you are in IT Ops or DevOps, hardly a day goes by without someone mentioning AIOps. There are a few who think AIOps can replace IT Ops tools today. Others debate this, saying that AIOps is still a nascent field, and it will take a few more years until we see a full-fledged AIOps platform for IT operations management. But there’s always been a lot of confusion on how AIOps really works.

Web browser security. Is it really safe?

If there is still a reason why you have a post-it covering the webcam of your laptop, if you have not yet had the audacity to delve into the deep web despite all the mysteries they say it contains, if you only enter the Internet in incognito mode, sitting in your armchair with a blindfold: then you’re worried about one thing: safety. Today, in our blog, we will discuss Web browser security. Which are the safest? Is there life beyond Google Chrome?

What's Next for Observability

In the industry, the long-held theory behind observability is that a successful stack consists of three key components – metrics, logging, and tracing. “This is a mental model for people who are often new to observability which helps them get a handle on what they need to implement to be successful,” said Grafana Labs VP of Product Tom Wilkie during a keynote presentation he delivered at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in May alongside Red Hat Software Engineer Frederic Branczyk.

Introducing the Wi-Fi Analyzer for OpManager's Android app: A perfect team for sustained IT infrastructure management

Addressing Wi-Fi issues can be challenging Tracking the availability, speed, and performance of a large number of systems, servers, VMs, routers, access points, firewalls, interfaces, and WAN links, plus monitoring their health is not a simple task. Tackling angry emails from employees about Wi-Fi running slowly, or it taking a lifetime to download a simple setup file or load a business-critical application, can hamper productivity.

NCSAM 2019: Cybersecurity Tips for Enterprise IT Pros

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the US. IT departments are tasked with protecting more than ever. Today’s IT department is responsible for creating, maintaining and managing a myriad of systems. Not only do you need to secure internal connections, but you also need to ensure availability for cloud-based applications and your company website. Many of the suggestions below may be already in place.

Introducing CloudWisdom, A SaaS Platform that Reduces the Cost and Risk of Operating Public Cloud Infrastructure

We are excited to announce CloudWisdom, a SaaS platform that reduces the cost and risk of operating public cloud infrastructure for enterprise businesses. CloudWisdom optimizes public cloud computing and capacity by recommending configurations unique to your application workloads using machine learning algorithms. This enables our customers to avoid performance bottlenecks and financial waste commonly associated with environments hosted in the public cloud.

Virtual Instruments is now Virtana!

I’m excited to announce that today we’re changing our company name to Virtana. Over the past three years, we have been steadily reinventing Virtual Instruments. You will still find the same deep infrastructure expertise, the same commitment to mission critical workloads, but now our portfolio offers a lot more breadth across the data center and into the public cloud.