Nexthink announced the general availability of Nexthink V4.2. The strengthened VDI assessment and capacity planning module, improved performance speed of real-time visualization and support for Windows 8 are among over 60 new features available today.
Nexthink combines in an interactive dashboard readiness metrics, cost savings analysis, end-user experience assurance and capacity requirements to ensure the success of VDI transformation projects.
With Nexthink V4.2 real-time monitoring ensures better end-user support, shortens the transformation project timeline, and enables comparisons of before and after compliance, performance and service levels, all from the end-user perspective.
Nexthink runs investigations across millions of events in less than a second. Performance improvements in Nexthink V4.2 drastically enhance the user experience, with real-time investigations and historical searches up to 6 times faster. Users can now obtain desired information more intuitively, quickly and easily to solve challenging IT issues.
Over 60 new features and improvements of Nexthink V4.2 include:
Virtualization
- New VDI assessment and capacity planning interactive/live dashboards
- Turnkey monitoring and analytics for all types of Citrix desktops and applications
Real-Time Visualization
- View IT services from multiple vantage points simultaneously
- Real-time (root cause) investigations up to 6 times faster
- Search IT infrastructure from Windows taskbar
Platform management
- Central administration for large multiple-engine deployments with audit trail
- Additional privacy controls for anonymity
- Support for Windows 8
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