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Citrix Ingress Controller is an emerging enterprise-grade ingress controller for load balancing microservices in the Kubernetes environment. It provides advanced load balancing, rewrite/responder policy support, advanced content routing, SSL/TLS support, TCP/UDP protocol support, Canary deployment support and much more. In this article, we will discuss different deployment modes for Citrix Ingress Controller and deploy it via the Rancher catalog.

It’s all about User Experience! New release available for MetrixInsight for CVAD. A CITRIX® Ready SCOM Management Pack for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. We have included some new important metrics to measure User Experience for Citrix based SBC/VDI: Session Round Trip Time, also known as ICA Round Trip Time (ICA RTT).

With most of the world on lockdown due to the COVID-19 virus, many aspects of IT services and digital transformation have been put into the fast lane. There are reports of massive surges in the use of tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Office 365, etc. in order to communicate and collaborate. At the same time organizations are required to scale up access to their internal applications.

The COVID-19 crisis has put organizations in a position where 100% of employees need to work remotely from their homes. Popular technologies used for supporting remote employees include Citrix virtual application and desktops, virtual desktop technologies based on VMware Horizon, cloud-hosted desktops (DaaS), or just VPN connectivity. Until now, remote access from home was something a small percentage of employees used.

GREAT NEWS for us today: As of today we are listed in the Citrix Ready Marketplace. This means our product MetrixInsight for CVAD has been verified by Citrix and is now certified as Citrix Ready!

Over 100 million users across 400,000 organizations use Citrix virtual apps and desktops technologies for accessing different types of business applications. There are many software products for monitoring the availability, performance, and usage of Citrix technologies. Of these, Microsoft SCOM is the most popular.

Kubernetes and containers are changing how applications are built, deployed and managed. Rancher makes application deployment simple and easily portable regardless of location or infrastructure. At Citrix, we operate on the same core principle. We provide application delivery and load balancing solutions for a high-quality user experience, to any device, across any network, for your web, traditional and cloud-native applications regardless of where they are hosted.

Now how many of you have better monitoring as part of your New Year’s resolution? You want to implement better monitoring into your Citrix environments, right?You want your end-users to experience less technical faults by having a system in place that allows you and the team to be more proactive. OK, probably not what you have been thinking as the clock struck midnight, but it should be part of your professional goals for 2020.

New release v1.2.20027.0 available for MetrixInsight for CVAD with several improvements and lots of new metrics to monitor user experience.

We're delighted to welcome Merijn Overgaauw, Service Monitoring and Automation Consultant at GripMatix, back for another guest blog. This time, he explains the creative process behind the useful topology overview of GripMatix's latest SquaredUp Dashboard Pack. Fascinating stuff!