Business Profitability And RDS Monitoring

The Cloud is changing the way businesses operate. This has brought the spotlight onto RDS (Remote Desktop Services) monitoring. RDS systems are seen as the need of the hour for most small businesses. Monitoring comes close on the heels of any system that makes work easier for you, through automation or application of logic.

Why choose RDS, if monitoring is so essential to it?

RDS is the way to go, for enterprises small-sized businesses. The RDS system can reduce costs for these businesses especially when combined with an effective monitoring system.

Benefits of RDS set-up

> Outsource all time-consuming operational and administration needs to optimize time and effort.
> Cut down on the need for heavy, one-time investment in infrastructure and manpower needs.
> Harness professional expertise, even across geographically distant areas.

There are several other benefits to deploying RDS systems, all of them basically helping ensure more productivity and increased savings, ultimately.

Profitability and monitoring

Like with other applications, optimal working translates into money and time saved for your business. RDS monitoring can help generate alerts and red flags well before an application shuts down, thus preventing the end-user from experience problems. In the case of RDS, end users are employees, and thus, problems and issues can lead to loss in productivity and wastage of time.

In case of comprehensive RDS monitoring systems, real time monitoring could be combined together with specific application monitoring, to ensure problems are caught before they grow into bigger issues.

Choosing RDS Monitoring

RDS monitoring needs to incorporate several elements, including:

> History of effective monitoring in Application monitoring.
> Flexibility to adapt to changes in monitoring needs, including technical adaptations.
> Adequate expertise to cover a range of needs, as per different businesses.
> Expertise and professional know-how to cover diverse industries and RDS deployment in them, including areas needing monitoring.
> Ability to carry out different kinds of monitoring, including real time monitoring, capacity planning, as well as performance testing.
> Good understanding of Cloud technology, and how it works, to be able to provide for repairs, if needed.

Ideally, when choosing an RDS monitoring provider, you should check for all of the attributes, and also the following features:

> Does the vendor support different types of business applications?
> Do they have knowledge and understanding of very complex business applications such as Thick client?
> Do they give you the option of a single monitoring solution that could test all applications hosted within RDS Cloud?
> Cloud technology is dynamic and ever-changing. Will your vendor be able to adapt and provide you comprehensive monitoring cover, accordingly?
> Are the solutions simple to deploy and manage?

About the Author:

Tevron develops and delivers Application Monitoring Solutions, Service Level Agreement, RDS Monitoring, and End to End Performance monitoring solutions available globally. Tevron has also successfully delivered enterprise Application Monitoring Solutions and Testing solutions to support every IT enterprise application to hundreds of customers across the globe. Tevron's solutions designed to support diverse environments, business processes and applications with a service oriented management.

Significance of Remote Desktop Services Monitoring

Remote desktop services monitoring is indispensable for keeping an eye on applications running on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Monitoring is essential to make sure that all applications are running as designed, particularly regarding their performance and response. Remote Desktop Services (RDS) monitoring can help detect problems in these applications before they blow up into issues of larger proportions.

However, RDS monitoring systems work better when:

> They are sensitive to catching responses and gauging problems
> They create alerts at the relevant time

Why install RDS monitoring at all?

Small businesses have limited budgets. This can translate into reduced infrastructure as well as restricted manpower. Remote desktop protocol (RDP) thus works very well for small businesses, while reducing the need for heavy investment in dedicated IT systems and manpower. Remote desktop services monitoring enhances and helps optimize RDP by ensuring it is performing at its peak.

Delays in detecting problems can result in delayed resolution time, leading to loss in productivity and, more seriously, business.

Effective remote desktop services monitoring

An effective RDS monitoring system has certain characteristics that enable it to optimize the work of Remote Desktop Protocol systems, as well as applications running on RDP.

Complete monitoring

RDS monitoring can engage the RDP like a human user, thus effectively testing applications and their performance. Moreover, engaging applications like a human user includes replicating moves and keystrokes. This allows for inconsistencies to be caught, even if they are at various different stages of the application.

Regular monitoring

Regular monitoring is essential to ensure problems are detected before they grow into bigger issues. Regular monitoring also provides understanding of the normal or usual behavior of a particular application while highlighting any aberration or deviation.

Real time monitoring

Real time monitoring is a very effective way of nipping trouble at the root. In case of problems with your RDP, your RDS monitoring system should ideally generate real time alerts that allow you to grab the problem and resolve it before it affects your users' systems.

An effective RDS monitoring system will replicate user behavior to access and test functioning of applications on the RDP effectively. Further, it should be independent and not make its presence known to the users. This in turn allows for increased efficacy as well.

Utilized effectively, an RDS monitoring system can save up immensely on cost and time - both of which are ingredients essential to the success of the small business.

About the Author

Tevron develops and delivers powerful and comprehensive Application Monitoring Solutions including RDS monitoring, Service Level Agreement, End to End Performance, and Automated Testing Solutions available globally. Tevron has also successfully delivered enterprise Application Monitoring Solutions and Testing solutions to support every IT enterprise application to hundreds of customers across the globe.

Tevron's solutions are scalable, flexible, and easy to maintain; they are also designed to support diverse environments, business processes and applications with a service oriented management.