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Unleashing the power of Stratusphere UX

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Introduction

Stratusphere™ UX, an advanced user experience monitoring and diagnostics solution, offers a wide array of capabilities that can transform the way enterprises manage their IT environments.
In an exciting upcoming webinar on 20th June, product marketing manager James O’Regan and Stratusphere UX subject matter expert Chris Walker will delve into the top five impactful enterprise use cases that unleash the true power of Stratusphere UX. Whether you’re looking to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, enhance security, or extend the lifecycle of your PCs, this webinar is a can’t-miss event.

Understanding the Full Capabilities of Stratusphere UX

Many organizations may not be fully aware of the extensive capabilities that Stratusphere UX brings to the table. This webinar aims to bridge that knowledge gap and explore the potential of Stratusphere UX across various use cases. James and Chris will provide in-depth insights and practical examples to help you leverage the full potential of this powerful product.

Optimizing Stratusphere UX License Costs

Managing software license costs is a crucial aspect of IT budgeting. Stratusphere UX offers features and functionalities that enable organizations to effectively optimize their license costs. In this webinar, our experts will discuss best practices and strategies to maximize the value of your Stratusphere UX licenses while ensuring optimal performance.

Integrating Stratusphere UX with ServiceNow

Seamless integration with existing IT service management systems is essential for streamlining operations. By integrating Stratusphere UX with ServiceNow, enterprises can leverage the rich data and insights provided by Stratusphere UX to enhance incident management, problem resolution, and overall service delivery.

Extending the PC Lifecycle

Proactively managing and extending the lifespan of PCs can significantly reduce hardware replacement costs. Stratusphere UX equips organizations with the necessary visibility and analytics to identify and address performance issues, bottlenecks, and resource utilization inefficiencies. Another benefit of Stratusphere UX is its ability to help organizations reduce e-waste. By providing valuable information about user behaviour and application usage, Stratusphere UX can help organizations identify areas where they can streamline their IT environment, reduce the number of devices they need, and extend the lifespan of their existing hardware.

Assessing Applications for a migration strategy

Part of any application strategy can be where to start, with Stratusphere UX you can determine and assess the applications installed against what is actually used. With this data, you can determine what applications are necessary for migration. This assessment can save time, effort and licensing costs. Once you have determined the applications for migration, Stratusphere UX can also assess the complexity of the applications to assist in determining the best image strategy.

Enhancing Security Posture

Maintaining a robust security posture is paramount in today’s threat landscape. Stratusphere UX provides valuable visibility into user behavior, application usage, network connectivity, and more. By analyzing this data, enterprises can identify potential security risks, proactively address vulnerabilities, and enforce compliance.

Live Demonstration of the Cutting-Edge User Interface

To conclude the webinar on an exhilarating note, James and Chris will treat attendees to a live demonstration of the new, cutting-edge, user interface (UI) for Stratusphere UX. Experience first-hand how the intuitive UI enhances usability and simplifies the management of your IT environment.

Conclusion

If you’re looking to expand your usage of Stratusphere UX or simply want to discover its full potential, the upcoming webinar is an event you can’t afford to miss.
Join James and Chris as they explore the top five impactful enterprise use cases for unleashing the power of Stratusphere UX!

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Going Green with Liquidware Stratusphere UX: How Workspace Monitoring Drives IT Sustainability

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In today’s world, sustainability is more important than ever. As we become increasingly aware of the impact of our actions on the environment, it’s important to consider the sustainability benefits of the products we use in our daily lives. Liquidware Stratusphere™ UX is not only a powerful user experience monitoring and diagnostics solution but also an eco-friendly solution, that helps organizations improve their IT performance while contributing to a more sustainable environment. 

In this blog, we will examine the ways Stratusphere UX can be used to make an organization’s IT infrastructure more sustainable. By optimizing resource usage and reducing energy consumption, Stratusphere UX not only improves IT performance but also contributes to a more sustainable environment. 

How Stratusphere UX Helps Make Your IT Environment More Sustainable 

Stratusphere UX is a comprehensive workspace monitoring and user experience solution for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), virtual application environments as well as physical desktops. It provides valuable insights into user behavior, application usage, and infrastructure performance, helping organizations optimize their IT environments and improve user experience. But beyond its immediate benefits, Stratusphere UX also offers significant sustainability benefits. 

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Reduce Energy Consumption 

Firstly, Stratusphere UX can help organizations reduce their energy consumption. Providing detailed insights into application usage and infrastructure performance, it can help organizations identify areas where they can optimize their IT environment to reduce energy usage. This includes identifying and removing unused applications, optimizing virtual machine settings, or identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks that are causing unnecessary energy consumption. 

Reduce Carbon Footprint 

In addition to reducing energy consumption, Stratusphere UX can also help organizations reduce their carbon footprint. By optimizing their IT environment, organizations can reduce the amount of energy they consume and, in turn, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This is particularly important in today’s world, where reducing carbon emissions is essential to combatting climate change. 

Reduce E-Waste

Another sustainability benefit of Stratusphere UX is its ability to help organizations reduce e-waste. By providing valuable information about user behavior and application usage, Stratusphere UX can help organizations identify areas where they can streamline their IT environment, reduce the number of devices they need, and extend the lifespan of their existing hardware. This not only reduces the amount of electronic waste generated by organizations, but also reduces the number of resources needed to produce new devices. 

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Conclusion

Liquidware Stratusphere UX is not only a powerful workspace monitoring and user experience solution, but also offers significant sustainability benefits. Helping organizations reduce their energy consumption, carbon footprint, and e-waste, it is an important solution in the fight against climate change and environmental degradation. If you’re looking for a way to improve your IT environment and reduce your environmental impact,  you should definitely consider Stratusphere UX. 

If you want to learn more about the sustainability benefits of Stratusphere UX, be sure to check out our website. 

Any Desktop, Any Broker, Anywhere: Future-proofing Your Windows Desktop Deployment with Liquidware

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The world of Windows desktop deployment has become increasingly complex with so many options available in the market today. From traditional laptops and desktops, to virtual desktops deployed on-premises, or in the cloud using solutions like Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream, Nutanix Frame, Citrix Virtual Apps, Microsoft AVD, or Microsoft CloudPC – there are numerous choices to make.

However, choosing a deployment method also means choosing a broker and deciding whether to deploy on-premises or in the cloud. This can lead to vendor lock-in where your users’ profiles might be tied to a specific deployment method, making it difficult to move to another option. Moreover, you may not be able to move your applications from one deployment method to another, and the user experience might not be consistent across different deployment methods.

To address these issues, Liquidware offers a “Switzerland” approach to Windows desktop deployment with its ProfileUnity™, FlexApp™, and Stratusphere™ UX products. With these solutions, you can abstract your user’s profile and application deployment from the underlying OS and platform, making it easier to switch deployment methods without affecting user experience.

ProfileUnity abstracts the user’s profile from the OS with any deployment method, whether physical, virtual, or cloud based. By using ProfileUnity, you can future-proof your deployment options by putting your users under management with your existing deployment method. ProfileUnity’s portability engine ensures that the user’s profile can be saved to any storage medium, including SMB and cloud storage, and restored to any OS, of any version, on any platform.

FlexApp abstracts application deployment from the OS and platform, allowing you to take advantage of fewer images and pools to manage. By abstracting your applications with FlexApp, you can easily move to any new deployment method while keeping the same application delivery model. This ensures that your users have access to the same applications, regardless of the deployment method.

Stratusphere UX helps you monitor user experience on your existing deployment method and ensures that users get the same, or better, experience when you switch to a new deployment method. It continuously monitors your user’s experience to make sure you don’t unknowingly decrease user satisfaction.

In conclusion, with the current state of acquisitions and the evolving end-user computing market, it is essential to future-proof your Windows desktop deployment options. By using Liquidware’s ProfileUnity, FlexApp, and Stratusphere UX products, you can abstract the user’s profile and application deployment from the OS and platform, making it easy to switch deployment methods without affecting user experience. With Liquidware’s solutions, you can ensure that your users have a consistent and seamless experience regardless of the deployment method you choose.

Liquidware, IGEL and ServiceNow Team Up to Enhance Endpoint Visibility and Performance

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Visibility into endpoint metrics and new digital workspace experience management capabilities deliver critical insight to keep work from anywhere productive Liquidware has teamed up with IGEL and ServiceNow to provide unparalleled visibility and insight into end-user experience.  Leading the Charge in Digital Workspace Management  Monitoring the user experience of your virtual desktop environment, regardless if it … Continue reading →

New Work from Home SpotCheck in Stratusphere UX!   

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Our product management team just added a new Work from Home (WFH) SpotCheck in Stratusphere UX. Now it’s easier than ever to quickly check the health of your WFH desktops, no matter where they are.

Stratusphere’s distributed architecture allows you to install the “Connector ID” agent on any Windows, Linux, Mac OS based machine and quickly start gather User Experience metrics via your network, or in this case, the Internet. If you’ve recently started or expanded a WFH program in the wake of social distancing, and you are responsible for supporting those users, you really need to check this out.

Stratusphere can monitor the end user device (usually a PC) and/or a virtual desktop session, such as those from Citrix or Amazon.

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Leveraging Your DMZ for Seamless, Rapid WFH Monitoring

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As a follow up to my 10 Steps to a Work-from-Home program. I reached out to my colleagues, Steve Hajek and Mark Knouse, here at Liquidware for some additional advice on utilizing Stratusphere UX to monitor the effectiveness of your Work-From-Home (WFH) options.

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Key Monitoring Objectives for WFH Programs

As I mentioned in my previous blog, monitoring WFH environments allows you to answer three key questions:

  1. Who is connecting?   You need to see who is logging in at what times.   These metrics provide  basic information that lets you know that your workers are able to sign  on to the system.
  2. Who is operational?   This set of metrics allows you to get basic performance stats for your users.  Login times, network latency and app response times among them.  This data helps you determine that your users are having an acceptable level of performance and are not frustrated in trying to accomplish work with sub-optimal workspaces.
  3. Who is productive?   This set of metrics can validate what applications are being used, how long they are being used, how they are responding to users’ needs.  Applications are the backbone of work and this information validates that workers are leveraging them to perform their tasks.

Obviously, this is important information for organizations to have in order to validate that their WFH programs are sound, reliable and effective for workers.

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10 Steps To A Work-From-Home Plan

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LiquidwareWFHblogCOVID-19 ushers in a new reality for supporting remote work.

The urgency imposed by the COVID-19 virus has put pressure on organizations to quickly ramp up work-at-home options to allow their employees to remain safe during this uncertain time.  Many of the country’s largest companies are addressing the risks of COVID-19 by limiting travel, canceling or postponing large events, replacing in-person events with virtual ones, and allowing or even requiring some people to work remotely.

Dealing with a pandemic adds just another key reason to support employee work flexibility.  But organizations have an equal responsibility to make sure work is getting done, and that employees are empowered to be as productive as possible.

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Stratusphere UX integration with Business Intelligence, Data Mining and ServiceDesk Workflows

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The Stratusphere UX platform has always been about getting enterprises the data that it needed to make better decisions. This was often accomplished through dashboards and custom reports available to administrators. Additionally, the data within Stratusphere UX plays a key role in troubleshooting exercises across any platform. At its core Stratusphere UX will always provide great focus around collecting and analyzing desktop, application and infrastructure metrics for the enterprise to consume.

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The Best Tool to Measure and Trend User Experience (UX)

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Preface

I want to start by discussing monitoring in general.  Monitoring products are in a funny place in the IT world.  Many companies consider them a luxury and not necessarily a requirement.  When they do start going down the monitoring road they almost always start by looking for a product that can do it all.  This will typically lead to the conclusion (correctly) that there is no singular product that can do it all.  One thing I learned while growing up with grandparents and my dad being produce farmers, you always pick the right tool for the job.  As they say, and I believe this applies to monitoring software as well, if all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail.

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