Independent Product Reviews of Goliath Technologies
Trouble Finding Citrix Expertise? The Answer is Technology
By George Spiers, Citrix CTP Why is it so difficult to find the Citrix expertise you need to successfully manage the end-user experience? It is all in the numbers. And the numbers are not changing anytime soon. Citrix sites support over 400,000 customers. On average, [...]
Why Troubleshooting Tools are Important to Any Citrix Upgrade
By George Spiers, Citrix CTP The Extended Support end-date for XenApp 6.5 is just under two months away, so the remaining customers, which I expect to be a fair few, should be on their migration journey to the Flexcast Management Architecture versions of Citrix Virtual [...]
Top 3 Ways to Identify Root Cause of Poor Performance Issues in Your Citrix or VMware Horizon Deployment
By Theresa Miller, Citrix CTP, VMware vExpert 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 [...]
Advanced Logon Duration Troubleshooting with Goliath Performance Monitor
Originally published by George Spiers on jgspiers.com When we virtualise desktops and applications in a Citrix environment, one of the most important success factors is providing end-users with quick logons to those resources. This is often a difficult challenge that usually result in [...]
How UHS uses availability and performance monitors to ensure Cerner is optimal for its physicians
Universal Health Services runs more than 15,000 tests per day to ensure that patient-critical applications and records are available for physicians and clinicians. Universal Health Services is one of the 10 largest for-profit health systems in the United States, and it relies heavily [...]
VDI Stack Monitoring with Goliath Performance Monitor
*This post was originally published by Johan van Amersfoort Quite often I run projects at existing VMware customers that are building a new Digital Workspace. And quite often, that Digital Workspace contains a VDI. Especially when a customer is already using VMware technology in their [...]
Goliath Technologies Delivers Unmatched Troubleshooting Capabilities in New Release
* This article was originally published by George Spiers Whilst Citrix Synergy 2019 was in full-flow in Atlanta, GA, Goliath Technologies were also keeping busy with the 11.7.8 release of Goliath Performance Monitor, which adds several features that were in demand by many customers. [...]
Independent Review: Using Exclusive Channel Metrics to Solve ICA Latency
Editor’s note: This post about proactively identifying and resolving ICA latency issues is written by Ed Duncan, a former Citrite and one of the IT industry’s foremost experts on Citrix end user logon optimization. Ed’s post is written to be a resource, so please share [...]
Advanced Logon Duration Troubleshooting with Goliath Performance Monitor
Read the latest blog from George Spiers (CTP) where he reviews the Logon Duration feature of the Goliath Performance Monitor. Even proclaiming, "Without a doubt, there is no comparison between the level of detail found in Goliath Performance Monitor and other tools like Director, etc." [...]
Automatically Map, Visualize and Troubleshoot Your Citrix Infrastructure with Topology View
One of the single biggest issues that Citrix administrators are forced to deal with is the sheer complexity of their Citrix systems. Not only is there complexity associated with the Citrix software itself, but the Citrix software also has a dependency upon a number of supporting [...]
Goliath’s Software Featured on the Official Citrix Blog
Schedule a XenApp & XenDesktop Health Check-up: Start During POC
Proactive Management of Citrix-Delivered Clinical & Business Applications in Healthcare
Goliath Application Availability Monitor is Now Citrix Ready
Proactive Performance Monitoring of Citrix XenServer & NVIDIA GRID Infrastructures