Recently the FSLogix team was working with a customer, and was posed with a dilemma about whether their toolset would solve a problem with large address book latencies in VDI and Skype for Business. Essentially the problem is that the Skype address book would download every time a user opened Skype for Business which was […]
The Top 10 Technology Predictions for 2017
There are many new and evolving technology trends that have been what I will call “intriguing” to evaluate this year. I do feel that in the upcoming year many of the trends from last year will make a heavier footprint on the way we consume technology within business this upcoming year. Below you will find […]
VMWare VSAN for Cost Reduction Webinar
In the past couple of years, VMware released a product call the VMware VSAN. So what is the value of this particular product you may ask? VSAN allows you take take your already existing storage infrastructure, and re-purpose that hardware to create an environment that is similar to hyper-converged infrastructure. For SMB companies that are doing “more […]
The Future – Monitoring Your Virtual Server Environment
So if I could image what monitoring would look like in the future I would want the solution to be “unicorns and rainbows” out-of-box. So what do I mean by this? I would want a solution that analyzes my environment for me and tells me exactly where my issues are based upon my environment. I […]
The Present – Monitoring Your Virtual Server Environment
Today server virtualization is advanced compared to its early days of inception over a decade ago, but the best part is that are our monitoring capabilities. When setup correctly we can have a proactive monitoring design that actually allows your Virtualization Team the ability to sleep at night. No longer being woken up by untimely […]
The Past – Monitoring Your Virtual Server Environment
When I step back and think about how we did monitoring in the past it amazes me how we survived in our infrastructure roles in IT. More specifically when server virtualization was introduced was there really any monitoring available? We were closing our eyes, and crossing our fingers hoping that our design could meet the […]
Keep Your Web Apps Running Lean & Mean
Web apps – from websites to SharePoint® – are getting more complex, which means troubleshooting can get complicated when there’s a slowdown. But, keeping things in high gear is easier than you think. Join Phoummala Schmitt, Theresa Miller and Steven Hunt in this webinar to learn how to deliver high performance of web applications powered […]
Is Outlook Performance Suffering in your VDI deployment?
When organizations deploy non-persistent VDI or Published Desktop type solutions it unfortunately is very typical to have your users to struggle with performance issues when using the full Outlook client. It can be extremely frustrating to a user that when something perceived to be as simple as accessing email is just miserably slow. That being […]
Monitoring your Exchange Servers to Prevent and Troubleshoot Common Issues
It’s just email… Almost every Exchange administrator has heard those words said before. But what happens when email is down or running slow? It would appear to be as the world has completely ended. In today’s world email is the main form of communication for the majority of businesses. Without email there is loss of […]
How to use Monitoring to Optimize Resources in a Virtualized Environment
It’s a virtual world in our enterprise workplaces. Organizations that have server virtualization often choose to deploy virtual servers before considering server hardware purchases. With a virtualization first and hardware second strategy; businesses are able to maximize how they use their compute and disk resources. So How Is Monitoring a Factor? If I can maximize […]