Our SysTrack product collects a lot of invaluable data points across a potentially very large and diverse IT environment. Each individual system provides up to 10,000 data points every 15 seconds and the IT landscape can include everything from physical desktops and endpoints to a myriad of servers with various functions to the Citrix XenApp…
Note: An updated version of this discussion (2018) can be found here. Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are available in two general licensing models: Â Concurrent licensing. This model is intended for one connection to a virtual desktop or unlimited apps for any user and any device – Â a license is only consumed for the duration of…
My good friend and former colleague Chris Fleck (@chrisfleck)Â is a well-known enthusiast for mobile work styles and the latest gadgets. His recent blog post asks his readers why they are not using their iPad or other tablet for all of their work. His embedded poll lists all the right reasons, but the first thought that…
Lakeside will be at VMworld 2014 San Francisco, August 23-28 in Booth 821. Stop on by! 100% of your Users’ Experience 50% of your IT budget 0% Visibility That’s the problem.  Most organizations spend about half of their IT budget and effort on delivering quality experience to 100% of their people, but they…
The Problem is EUC Visibility Most organizations spend about half of their IT budget and effort on end user computing (EUC): on endpoint hardware, applications, support, and more. It’s a huge cost, and literally all of their users are touched by the experience that they get from that investment. Unlike some more intangible expenses there’s…
Lakeside again this week expanded the number of vendors for which SysTrack MarketPlace solution-specific reporting is available, with the addition of SysTrack MarketPlace reporting for HP Thin Clients and VMware Horizon 6. Read the VMware blog. This follows on the announcement just last week of the addition of SysTrack MarketPlace reporting for RES Software, Samsung…
Back in March, Ben Murphy and I had the pleasure of speaking at the NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference in San Jose about best practices for the implementation of virtual GPU loads with virtual desktops and apps. Since then, I had the pleasure of speaking to numerous customers, partners, and analysts about the power of NVIDIA…
Lakeside Software’s announcement of SysTrack MarketPlace support for RES Software, Samsung and X-IO Technologies represents a large step in the continual expansion of SysTrack vendor-specific reporting. What is SysTrack MarketPlace? SysTrack MarketPlace is a dynamic library of customized, vendor-specific reports that IT administrators run anytime to evaluate, measure and tune their IT solutions. SysTrack MarketPlace leverages vendor-specific algorithms…
At Lakeside Software, we’re all about the end-user computing experience and our SysTrack product is well known to instrument desktops and servers across the physical and virtual world. We realize that each use case and environment is different and that customers often like to have information readily available that is relevant to their specific environment…
At this year’s Citrix Synergy conference, Lakeside Software won the Citrix Best of Synergy 2014 Award in the virtualization category. Lakeside Software was selected for this top award in the virtualization category by popular vote of the Synergy attendees. This award is thus the latest confirmation that SysTrack is the solution of choice for improving XenApp…
With the recent launch of SysTrack 7.0 it’s a perfect time to introduce one of the newest (and best, in my opinion) features: SysTrack Dashboard Builder. Even though it’s currently still just a tech preview it’s fairly feature complete, and there are some cool ways to present and customize data from SysTrack or other sources….
With the recent launch of SysTrack 7.0 it’s a perfect time to introduce one of the newest (and best, in my opinion) features: SysTrack Dashboard Builder. Even though it’s currently still just a tech preview it’s fairly feature complete, and there are some cool ways to present and customize data from SysTrack or other sources….