SysTrack Verified as Citrix Ready for XenDesktop 7

- Verified compatibility with the latest XenDesktop release delivers new capabilities that accelerate implementation, speed problem resolution and enhance end user experience

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan, July 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lakeside Software, the leading provider of IT analytics and business intelligence solutions, today announced that SysTrack has been successfully tested and verified by Citrix as Citrix Ready® for XenDesktop® 7. Verified SysTrack compatibility with XenDesktop® 7 makes it easier for IT professionals to collect and utilize environmental and user data to deliver improved XenDesktop end-user performance and accelerate the roll-out of desktop virtualization projects enterprise-wide.

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New SysTrack enhancements for XenDesktop 7 that accelerate the virtualization process include:

• Environment Characterization — SysTrack thoroughly analyzes user group behavior for insight into commonality of usage to develop groups for mobile device enablement and application characterization to determine optimal delivery group and image definitions.
• Virtualization Deployment Planning — Utilizing integration with Citrix AppDNA for application analysis, SysTrack collects deep user and application data that drives complex predictive and inferential analysis to generate high-precision mathematical modeling necessary to enable accurate deployment planning and fast implementation.
• End User Experience Optimization — SysTrack provides visibility into XenDesktop 7 guest operating system and supporting infrastructure performance characteristics with enhanced deep data coordination with the XenDesktop Director management console to provide the maximum possible insight into capacity planning and end-user experience optimization.

SysTrack support for XenDesktop 7 is included in SysTrack 6.1 with immediate availability.

Read the new white paper explaining the technology behind SysTrack support for XenDesktop 7.

Supporting Quotes

Aimee Catalano, vice president, alliance marketing at Citrix:
"Lakeside's SysTrack integrations with Citrix products and technologies, achieved with our close collaboration, reinforce the value Citrix and Lakeside together deliver to our customers: faster desktop transformations, efficient infrastructure utilization and superior user experience."

Brinton Baker, chief marketing officer, Lakeside Software:
"Validation of SysTrack is Citrix Ready for XenDesktop 7 is the latest confirmation of SysTrack compatibility with Citrix technologies. SysTrack provides Citrix users with more power to better understand, measure and tune their environment to enhance end user productivity and maximize the ROI of their Citrix infrastructure."

About the Citrix Ready Program

The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including XenDesktop®, XenApp®, XenServer®, NetScaler®. 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. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over partners who have demonstrated more than 22,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program, which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/ready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.

About Lakeside Software

Lakeside Software is the leading provider of IT analytics and business intelligence solutions. SysTrack solutions for user experience scoring, end-to-end monitoring, problem diagnosis, VDI assessment, design and planning, and Windows® migration empower IT professionals with the knowledge to dramatically improve end user experience and reduce costs. SysTrack aggregates user-level data unmatched in depth and quality, enabling SysTrack's sophisticated reporting intelligence to deliver unprecedented insight into application usage and resource utilization. Visit www.lakesidesoftware.com for more information.

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