It’s all worth it, though, as we’ll be joined at the Summit by several hundred F5 customers, partners, and staff, as well as exhibitors, including Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, and NetApp, to name but a few. The Summit will showcase some of the latest technologies that are helping shape the future of agile infrastructure.

Kicking things off on Monday morning is a welcome and F5 update keynote session with John McAdam, F5 President & CEO, and Dave Feringa, F5 VP of Sales, Americas. Check out the rest of the keynotes for some great topics and speakers. There will also be a cool event on Tuesday evening at The Field Museum where we’ll meet Sue and then listen to Grammy Award Winning Bluesman Robert Cray.

F5 is, of course, where our founders Jesse and Raja made a name for themselves with the development of the BIG-IP v9 product. And now we’re proud to count F5 as one of our key technology partners. To learn more about how the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system can help optimize application delivery controllers, check out our Load Balancer/ADC solutions page.

And if you’re planning to visit the Windy City for the F5 Summit, please make sure to drop by our booth.

We did a few rounds of a straight-forward 8GB sequential read and write for each drive.

Here are the results from the write test (time in seconds to write an 8GB file directly to the USB device):

Kymera Magic Wand Universal Remote control

Nintendo Wii

Flip HD Camera

It’s also your chance to meet with some of the ExtraHop Networks founding executives, including our CEO, Jesse Rothstein. Several of ExtraHop’s Technology Partners will also be exhibiting, including Anue Systems and Gigamon, so you can see how the ExtraHop system is aligning with other leading technology providers.

We’ll be in booth #2342. Hope to see you there!

The event will feature a series of seminars on trends in the technology market, including a keynote from David Reilly, Managing Director and Global CIO of Enterprise Infrastructure for Morgan Stanley. Senior members of the Morgan Stanley Technology Staff will hold in-depth seminars to provide customer perspective on pertinent IT topics. In addition, Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking team will present a seminar on the M&A and IPO markets.

The Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) group at Morgan Stanley manages over $1.3 billion in technology infrastructure spending, with over 3,200 resources serving all of Morgan Stanley around the globe. This group clearly understands complexity.

Good luck, guys! Make us proud.

We received some great news a few weeks back: ExtraHop has been selected as one of just three companies to present at Globespan Capital’s Bi-Annual Technology Briefing Lunch taking place on May 25^th in Boston. Globespan’s CIO Advisory Board is comprised of select CIO’s from Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations who represent a wide range of industries including financial services, high technology, manufacturing, and consumer goods. This group of technology experts meets twice every year to discuss evolving technology trends and emerging enterprise needs. They also collaborate on projects in specific technology areas with Globespan’s investment team.

Globespan Capital Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $1 Billion under active management and has invested in many notable technology companies, including: Akorri, BladeLogic, Brocade, Cerulean Technology, Fortisphere, oDesk, and Palo Alto Networks, to name but a few.

Here is a picture of Jesse with the judges on the Interop main stage holding our two newest awards!

Congratulations to all of the winners. Here is the official InformationWeek Analytics press release.

Be sure to stop by our booth (#1275) to meet the team, get a demo, and enter a drawing to win some great prizes!

You can also check out NetworkTimeout.com, a free web service for offline packet analysis powered by the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system. The idea: upload packet captures, quickly identify issues, and then collaborate with a community of networking experts to discuss and share troubleshooting tips.

Finally, remember to check out our CEO Jesse on the Advances in Network Management panel (Thursday, April 29^th from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM) with EMC and CA.

Here’s what panel moderator Jim Metzler had to say: “ExtraHop’s take is that the technologies have really changed over the last eight to 12 years in terms of Moore’s Law and what you can do. So I can do deep packet inspection of all packets and get much better management information than with some other techniques. Here’s a start-up out of Seattle that is going to apply that to network management.”

Interop is fast upon us, next week in Las Vegas (April 25–29). Not only are we exhibiting–booth #1275, come by and say hi–but we’re also participating in the “booth crawl” from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday the 28th.

As one of my co-workers says, everyone should stop by to get some (Extra)Hops!

The next day, our co-founder and CEO, Jesse Rothstein, will be on a panel called Advances in Network Management (Thursday, April 29th, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.). He’ll be joined by product management directors from both EMC and CA, and the session will be moderated by Jim Metzler, Vice President of Ashton Metzler & Associates.

For more information on the session, here is the official speaker alert. Take a look–then come check out Jesse in action on Thursday.

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably familiar with Interop (held this year in Las Vegas, April 25–29). But take a minute to look at the current nominees and past winners. We’re proud to be in such good company–and we’re eager to compete!

We’ll be taking the wraps off Network Timeout at Interop, a new community website built by networking geeks (that’s us) for networking geeks (that’s you).

If you’re headed to Interop this year, be sure to stop by our booth (#1275). We’ll be giving demos of the ExtraHop system and Network Timeout, and we’ll be giving away lots of free stuff–including a Nintendo Wii, a Flip Video camcorder, and a Kymera Magic Wand.