Application Performance Management

OPNET Technologies, a provider of application and network performance management solutions, placed its Application Performance Management Xpert solution suite into a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop.

The verification guarantees that OPNET’s high definition application performance management solution can be deployed to enhance Citrix networking and virtualization solutions. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering.

High definition application performance management is characterized by very fine-grained metrics, as well as detailed transaction tracing to obtain a more accurate picture of the behavior and performance of all components of the application infrastructure. OPNET claimed that high definition application performance management in its products is delivered with a greater degree of integration and forensic analysis than any other solution suite in the industry. The company added that it consistently redefines its solution suite to more clearly convey its breadth and depth, including introducing a cohesive product naming scheme that more clearly reflects the roles of all of our domain solutions and the tight integration among them.

John Fanelli, vice president of solutions and community marketing at Citrix, commented that application availability and responsiveness is extremely important to their customers. OPNET APM (News - Alert) has verified support for Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp to enable enterprises to keep their applications running smoothly. They are pleased to work closely with OPNET to help IT organizations achieve this goal.

Some of the features and benefits that Citrix customers are going to avail from the OPNET's Application Performance Management suite are: monitor end user experience in real time, 24/7; trace user sessions through all application tiers in production environments; pinpoint the root cause of performance problems; maintain visibility by decoding the ICA protocol; and more.

OPNET maintained that Citrix is a leader in virtual computing, so there is a strong and steadily increasing demand for application performance management solutions designed to understand the Citrix infrastructure. Achieving Citrix Ready status furthers OPNET's high definition application performance management strategy, which empowers clients to understand user behavior, rapidly solve performance problems, and improve IT efficiency.