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CIO Insights: The New Normal and Automation

As I wrote in a previous blog post, the world has undergone massive changes that have created chaos for CIOs as they struggle to ensure operational continuity, including when in scenarios where things change in an unprecedented fashion overnight. What does operational continuity look like as the world moves forward in the paradigm of the new normal? In the previous blog post, I highlighted some significant paradigm shifts the new normal will include, with an intensified focus on these key areas.

How to Report on Remote Worker Productivity and Experiences on Citrix or VMware Horizon

Learn how Goliath can help you better document the end-user productivity experience for your home workers using Citrix or VMware Horizon with end-user productivity and activity reports, experience reports tracking logon speeds, and other key performance indicators, and overall IT Performance for host, VMs, and storage.

[Webinar] Understanding federation in Sensu Go

Sensu Developer Advocate Jef Spaleta walks through setting up a multi-site federation from scratch. He also goes over a few security best practices — implementing RBAC and TLS — and will demo the etcd replicator, a new feature that makes it easy for you to tie your clusters together. Jef will also demo how federation works — and looks — in the Sensu web UI.

Monitoring for Citrix Digital Workspaces

eG Innovations has been a Citrix partner since 2003. Those were the days when Citrix’s messaging was around “access”. Thin client computing and then server-based computing were the hot topics. Discussions around the efficiency of RDP and ICA ruled and Citrix Resource Manager was the best way to monitor a Citrix server. What was then Citrix MetaFrame soon became Citrix Presentation Server, then Citrix XenApp, and now Citrix Virtual Apps.

Catchpoint Digital Monitoring: Offering lowest cost options without compromising quality

SaaS monitoring platforms must provide a flexible set of capabilities to their customers. A platform with the ability to adjust according to business needs reduces costs (e.g. the cost to switch) and tool sprawl since the need to perform different monitoring functions can be accommodated in a single place. A monitoring platform should allow you to adjust, for example: Not all digital experience monitoring platforms are the same.

Reign in the Chaos of Security Threats with ChaosSearch

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an incredible impact on the world as nations work to keep their economies moving, secure the health and welfare of their citizens through social distancing, testing, and an immediate transition to remote work and classrooms. The world is adopting these measures while anxiously waiting for the great scientific institutions and private enterprises to test and deliver a vaccine to eradicate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus we know as Covid-19.

Logging Best Practices Part 4: Text-based logging

Isn’t all logging pretty much the same? Logs appear by default, like magic, without any further intervention by teams other than simply starting a system… right? While logging may seem like simple magic, there’s a lot to consider. Logs don’t just automatically appear for all levels of your architecture, and any logs that do automatically appear probably don’t have all of the details that you need to successfully understand what a system is doing.