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Saving a Healthcare Citrix Build gone Sideways – 6 LESSONS

March 11, 2017

With 100+ agents working from a local Starbucks or with clients and patients in their homes, a government healthcare organization we met with a few weeks ago relies heavily on Citrix to make their EMR (Electronic Medical Record system) available anytime, anywhere. Read More

10 Ways Having Whitehat Manage Your Citrix Environment Saves You Time

February 21, 2017

We could all use a little more time each day but time just seems to get away from us. That stuff is either very slippery or we are just all very bad at remembering where we put it.  Read More

Is Your IT Staff Working Against You?

May 31, 2016

To be honest, this is a difficult topic, but it is so common we have to talk about it. Several hundred thousand companies have bought Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View or any number of other technologies based on the promised features, capabilities, cost savings and productivity enhancements the new software promises to bring.  Unfortunately […] Read More

The Case of the “I’m an Expert” Non-Experts

April 12, 2016

In our most recent blog, we described how we often encounter clients where the IT staff has been timidly afraid to “mess” with a new, pristine Citrix environment. As we wrote, the problem with this way of thinking is that a well-run Citrix environment needs regular care and feeding in order to remain fully functional. […] Read More

“Set it and Forget it” Doesn’t Work with Citrix

April 6, 2016

So here’s a problem we see all the time. We’re called in to investigate a Citrix environment gone bad and we see that virtually nothing’s been changed/upgraded/updated in the X number of months/years since the system was initially architected and set up. Outdated software, old hardware — nothing’s current, and the environment isn’t functioning properly. […] Read More

Top 5 Reasons Citrix is Slow and Why IT Can’t Seem to Fix It

February 29, 2016

Quite possibly the No. 1 complaint you hear from your end users is frustration about the speed — or lack thereof — of their Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop environment. You and they both know that not only is a slow system inordinately annoying, but it’s also a productivity-killer. Moments spent watching the blue donut of death […] Read More

10 Reasons why Moving to the Cloud is the Best Choice

December 1, 2014

10 Reasons why Moving to the Cloud is the Best Choice                                         Whitehat’s CloudOffice is the first bundle in the market to include a full suite of cloud solutions for a business all in one package. CloudOffice […] Read More

Managing Virtualized Citrix: 4 Tips to Help Find the Right Tool

February 7, 2013

Trying to manage physical Citrix environments and “seeing” what is going on inside the box has always been a bit challenging.  Then the hypervisor showed up and suddenly the size, cost and consumption of physical servers no longer made sense and Citrix went virtual. Read More

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