Healthcare workers are finding themselves more overwhelmed than ever with COVID-19, and the Health IT Professionals that support these workers with technologies that must be online and high performing are equally stressed. There is no time for EHR (Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, MEDITECH) or other system failures. All technology vendors must work in concert to deliver […]
CVE-2019-19781 Impacts Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Devices: What You Need to Know
In December of 2019, a vulnerability was found in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (Citrix ADC) and the Citrix Gateway. These products were both formerly known under the NetScaler name. This Vulnerability has been widely discussed in both the Citrix and Information Security communities. According to NIST, the severity of this vulnerability is Critical. What […]
Top 3 Ways to Identify Root Cause of Poor Performance issues in your Citrix or VMware Horizon Deployment
Enterprise troubleshooting is not an easy task with many enterprises. Administrators are typically left maintaining many different solutions, attempting to evaluate root cause manually, or are left with solutions that do not give broad visibility into all aspects of the deployed Citrix or VMware Horizon deployment. This can leave systems down for longer than necessary […]
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, so you […]
Troubleshooting Insights for Success Within your Epic Deployment
Healthcare organizations that deploy Epic to support the patients that they see every day have a responsibility to ensure that Epic is always online and performing well. Take for example, a hospital that uses Epic for all its patient services to keep the patients healthy and to ensure their safety Epic needs to be online […]
Get Wise about the Health of your Citrix Environment
When it comes to monitoring the health of your Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop environment understanding it’s overall health can be critical. The level of criticality can vary of course depending on what your organization uses Citrix for, but there are many industries that rely on their Citrix deployments for their critical applications. That being said, the solutions […]
Top Announcements from Citrix Summit
Citrix Summit for partners wrapped up in Anaheim with much news and excitement. While there were many outstanding announcements some of them are still NDA. That being said and after reviewing the list of announcement these are the ones I am most excited about today. Citrix Acquires Unidesk! This news was more than exciting to […]
Microsoft and Citrix: A New Cloud-based Application Virtualization Service
Azure Remote App is the current Microsoft solution for cloud-based application virtualization. The offering is very similar from a conceptual perspective to Citrix XenApp and offers the ability to run your corporate applications on Windows Server in the cloud. Similar to Citrix XenApp that companies have been deploying locally within their enterprises for years; this […]
How to Read Tech Articles with a Critical Eye
I was a library geek throughout my childhood. The library in our town was too far to get to on my own and we didn’t have buses. I loved the Bookmobile, until I read every book on it. One of the main reasons I loved school was because I could go to the library! I […]
What you NEED to Know about choosing a Remote Monitoring and Management Tool
If you’re an Enterprise systems administrator, you’ll have some structured tools in place to support your servers and desktops. In a Microsoft-centric world, you’re likely to have a Standard Operating Environment, locked-down control via Group Policy, and SCCM and SCOM servers for configuration and management control. Or perhaps you’ve invested in third party monitoring tools, […]