Posted By Dane
August 22, 2019
If you are attending VMworld 2019, visit us at Booth 1651 to see how ControlUp can give you virtualization superpowers. We’ll be showing our most recent solutions and some old favorites: We’ll demonstrate ControlUp Real-time Automated Actions, which allows IT admins to proactively solve recurring problems in their infrastructure. We published over a dozen brand-new […]
Posted By Dane
August 20, 2019
In early 2019, we conducted many customer interviews to learn about the challenges they face when managing their virtualized data center. Using those insights, we began work on a solution to make it easier for data center administrators to control and manage their virtualized data centers. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability […]
Posted By Trentent
August 09, 2019
Session optimization is a common challenge, whether you’re managing a Citrix, VMware Horizon, RDS, or WVD environment (or an environment composed of all three). We’ve been working on a approach to attacking the problem, creating scripts and adding triggers to make the result more comprehensive and powerful. And we’ve done it! These new trigger/script action […]
Posted By Trentent
June 18, 2019
How do you measure user experience (UX)? When I worked with end users I used various methods to measure the quality of their experience. If the user was in close proximity, I would visit them and actually watch them work, otherwise I’d do some sort of screen share. I found it amazing observing users work […]
Posted By Trentent
June 03, 2019
Server Silos When I was a Citrix administrator, I hated having server silos. I worked extremely hard to minimize the number of silos in our environment. This made management of virtual machines easier, reduced configuration sprawl and made the environment more consistent. This is a very big challenge, though. When you are able to […]
Posted By Trentent
June 03, 2019
Wow. An amazing powerful new feature from ControlUp was released with ControlUp Real-Time Console 7.4. Automated Actions. This article is going to dive into this exciting new feature and what it is capable of and what value it can offer. ControlUp Automated Actions has several different categories where it can improve the ability of an […]
Posted By Dan Levtov
May 17, 2019
ControlUp keeps the new and innovative features coming at a steady pace, and we all love the new and continually improving capabilities. But once in a while there will be a new release which is so profound, it makes a big splash. We believe ControlUp 7.4 is that one giant leap, and we hope you’ll […]
Posted By Trentent
May 16, 2019
Another day, another call had come in. I knew all too well what this was going to be about. Our Citrix users were getting an error message when trying to launch their applications. We encountered this sporadically, but often enough that the process to fix this was well known. This fix was simple, but time […]
Posted By Ton de Vreede
April 29, 2019
Datastores in any typical virtualized environment are critical components that hold virtual disks, snapshots, and other data that keeps your VMs alive. Like any storage, over time datastores tend to fill up, and when the percentage of used space reaches worrying levels it’s time to look for stuff that can be thrown away in order […]
Posted By Trentent
March 19, 2019
Where it all began Time. It’s something you never get back. I’ve heard it be called the most precious resource in the universe because once it’s gone, it’s gone. Something I’ve found I love about the end user computing space is we all share a lot of the same challenges. We share the same successes. […]
Posted By Trentent
February 12, 2019
Using the ControlUp Logon Simulator gives you the ability to have proactive notifications when applications become unavailable to your users. Each run by the simulator generates an event giving you the results of that run. This allows you to create an event based task to execute an action, or use the ControlUp Realtime Console to […]
Posted By Dan Levtov
January 25, 2019
ControlUp keeps evolving and bringing bigger and greater capabilities to your fingertips, based on our vision and your requests and needs. In a constantly changing IT landscape, you can bet on ControlUp to be a solid solution for your IT management, monitoring and troubleshooting needs. Introducing our latest version – ControlUp 7.3. Let’s go through […]