ExtraHop Networks

ExtraHop Networks Expands Operations into the EMEA Market

Justin Baker — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:05:12 +0000

Leading Application Performance Management (APM) Innovator Gains International Momentum, Forms Channel Partnerships in EMEA

LONDON, UK – 9 February 2012 – ExtraHop Networks, recently named an “APM Innovator” by Gartner Research, announces its entry into the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) market. Building on an extensive customer base in the USA including Adobe, Concur, Microsoft and other industry leaders, ExtraHop continues to win EMEA customers and is executing a ground-breaking channel partner programme in the EMEA region to further accelerate growth.

Forrester Application Performance Management Market Overview Report for Q4, 2011

Tyson Supasatit — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:25:06 +0000

Forrester Research recently published a report on the application performance management (APM) market, titled “Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011.” Led by Principal Analyst and Forrester Vice President Jean-Pierre Garbani, the research proposes an APM reference model that customers can use to plan their APM strategies. The report goes on to evaluate 26 APM vendors, including ExtraHop Networks, in the context of the Forrester APM reference model.

Finding the APM Solution That’s Best for Your Company

Tyson Supasatit — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:00:47 +0000

Selecting the right application performance monitoring (APM) solution can make a huge difference in the long run, especially when keeping in mind several important factors that influence the final decision. First, the product needs to meet or exceed the technical requirements for the project. Cost is another important consideration—not only the cost of the product itself, but any attendant deployment and ongoing management costs. There is another consideration that might not be top-of-mind for APM decision makers yet is important nonetheless: innovation.

ExtraHop Networks Named an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Innovator by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Justin Baker — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:06 +0000

ExtraHop’s Holistic Network-Based View, Deep Visibility, and Zero-Impact Deployment Is Driving Innovation in the APM Market

SEATTLE, WA – January 5, 2012 – ExtraHop Networks, a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced its inclusion in the December 2011 Gartner report, “APM Innovators: Driving APM Technology and Delivery Evolution.” Authored by Gartner Research Vice President Will Cappelli and Gartner Research Director Jonah Kowall, the report examines seven innovative companies that APM decision-makers should take into consideration.

2011 – A Banner Year for ExtraHop

Justin Baker — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:28:32 +0000

With the holiday decorations packed away and a new year upon us, we can’t help but reflect on 2011. At ExtraHop, we had a fantastic year filled with many milestones as we continued to revolutionize the application performance management (APM) market.

EMA Report: ExtraHop Fills Critical Real-Time Application Performance Monitoring Gaps Left by NetScout Systems

Justin Baker — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:08:15 +0000

In a new white paper released yesterday, distinguished EMA Managing Research Director and former NetScout Vice President Jim Frey documents the value many enterprise IT shops have found in adding top-down, real-time application performance monitoring to their existing NetScout deployments. As Frey elaborates in the report, a majority of Fortune 500 enterprise IT organizations rely on packet-based NetScout Systems products to monitor network performance from L2 to L4 and perform forensic investigations on the root cause of problems. However, to get the real-time application-oriented performance monitoring that is so critical for today’s highly complex IT environments, many IT teams are finding great value in deploying the ExtraHop network-based application performance management (APM) solution in parallel with NetScout.

Report from Analyst Firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Documents Benefits of Pairing ExtraHop Networks with NetScout Systems for Application Performance Management

Justin Baker — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:18:22 +0000

EMA Analyst Jim Frey Highlights Complementary Nature of ExtraHop Networks (L7) and NetScout Systems (L2–L4) Application Monitoring Solutions

SEATTLE, WA – December 14, 2011 – ExtraHop Networks, a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today released a new white paper by analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) titled “Multi-Layer Performance Management: Co-Deploying ExtraHop Networks and NetScout Systems Solutions.” Written by EMA Managing Research Director and former NetScout Vice President of Marketing Jim Frey, the white paper discusses the importance of real-time application visibility in addition to deep-dive forensic analysis. The white paper documents the experiences of three enterprise IT organizations that have deployed solutions from both ExtraHop Networks, a fast-growing network-based APM provider, and NetScout Systems, the largest industry provider of packet-based performance monitoring solutions.

Performance Metric of the Month: Packet Loss, Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) and Round-Trip Times in Virtualized Systems

Tyson Supasatit — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:54:16 +0000

Retransmission timeout and round-trip time metrics can reveal virtual packet loss.

This month’s Performance Metric turns to retransmission timeouts (RTOs) and round-trip times, particularly for transactions travelling to virtualized systems. Both high RTOs and high levels of jitter on round-trip times in these instances likely indicate virtual packet loss, a hard-to-detect performance problem that plagues underprovisioned virtual environments.

It’s Time to Rethink Application Performance Management

Jesse Rothstein — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:38 +0000

By ExtraHop Networks CEO Jesse Rothstein

When Raja Mukerji and I founded ExtraHop Networks in 2007, we had a vision for a powerful and elegant approach to application performance management (APM). We realized that legacy APM tools had become untenable due to exponential increases in IT complexity. The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system was based on the premise that the health and performance information needed to manage business-critical applications is available on the wire. Previously, this valuable information was discarded, and due to gains in processing power and storage capacity, we were able to engineer an innovative solution that enabled a truly application-aware, network-based approach to APM.

“It’s the Network’s Fault”: Avoiding the IT Blame Game with Network-Based Application Performance Management

Justin Baker — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:36:05 +0000

Blame the network? Sure, but what about cosmic rays?
Play the IT Blame Game at www.itblame.com.

“I think the greatest measure of a good network engineer is to have the ability to demonstrate and prove to non-networking teams the reasons why the network is not to blame (and to take the flak when it is),” wrote one engineer on a networking forum. “It’s a fact of life that people will look to the network first at the first sign of trouble.”