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…
In most companies workforce costs average about 70%. These costs are the single biggest expense of any company and companies have struggled, particularly in the economic environment of the last few years, to gain workforce efficiencies. Many of them have used the sledge hammer approach – hiring freezes, layoffs, company reorganizations – because they’ve lacked…
I’m excited about Lakeside’s announcement today of the release of the latest major version of its SysTrack product: SysTrack 7. SysTrack 7 represents a significant advancement in the creation and utilization of Big Data to enhance end user computing, and a major milestone in the evolution of SysTrack. In its essence, SysTrack provides IT with the data they…
When I started working at Citrix in the summer of 2005 in the consulting organization it was considered a special honor to attend the Citrix Synergy events (back then, it was called iForum and the format was slightly different, but we’re talking generally here about the large annual customer conference). As an employee, one had…
When you’re looking into enterprise storage options, the amount of information available to you and the in-depth knowledge you need of your environment to make an informed decision can become overwhelming. It’s easy to ballpark how much overall space you need and tack on some extra for expected growth and overhead, but that can quickly…
Citrix has made some waves in the IT community with the recent releases of XenDesktop 7.5 and XenApp 7.5. Whether it be an app or a large desktop infrastructure, the newest versions of these leading products provide some of the best the market has to offer for virtualization solutions. Here at Lakeside we get pretty…
Citrix has made some waves in the IT community with the recent releases of XenDesktop 7.5 and XenApp 7.5. Whether it be an app or a large desktop infrastructure, the newest versions of these leading products provide some of the best the market has to offer for virtualization solutions. Here at Lakeside we get pretty excited over software and…
With GTC coming up shortly it seems like an ideal time to discuss some of the key concepts that we’ll be covering in our talk at the conference about designing and optimizing a virtual environment with complex graphical needs using NVIDIA’s innovative GRID technology.  A recurring theme with us here at Lakeside is a focus on…
Managing large computing environments can be a real challenge for any IT administrator. Simple tasks such as ensuring every user has the latest version of Microsoft Excel can cause a great deal of headaches. A small company IT staff, with maybe 10 or 20 users, can simply check each employee’s device to see which version…
One of the most expensive mistakes anyone can make in life is ignoring the details. Whether it’s that stack of parking tickets piling up on the dining room table or your crippling addiction to Steam sales, the possibility of being overwhelmed by the small costs in life is very real. Even worse is the fact…
At Lakeside Software, we are very excited that XenDesktop 7.5 is being released – the third 7.x iteration in a few months puts customers on a great footing with the first unified architecture for both application and desktop virtualization. Citrix has been doing a great job integrating design principles into the products for a couple of…