Spent a couple of days down at Interop last week, meeting with the press, analysts and customers, talking about our 2.0 release. Unfortunately the direct link no longer works. To view it, you have to go to: http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/interoptv/ and then select the On Demand Content / Review Cam and Show-n-Tells, scroll down to find ExtraHop.
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Time sure flies when you’re having fun.
It seems like just yesterday when we came out of stealth and launched the 1.0 version of our Application Delivery Assurance system. Here we are, not quite 6 months later and already v2.0 is about to go out the door. Working with customers like you, we’ve focused this release [...]
We all knew it was coming, and Amazon EC2 is taking baby steps today with the new Cloud Watch announcement. CPU load, Disk I/O rates, and Network I/O rates are your very bare minimum metrics for monitoring purposes, but it’s a start. As cloud providers and users both get more sophisticated, we’ll expect to see [...]
Just saw this while perusing Google News, Information Week reports an overall 5% decline in internet traffic Thu morning due to some Google issues. 5%? Wow, I mean I know they practically run the internet, but 5%?
Their VP of Ops explains that a “routing error had sent some of the company’s Web traffic to Asia, [...]
ExtraHop had a great customer advisory board meeting yesterday, this is a semiannual event where we bring together representatives from key customers to share our roadmap, so they can provide feedback to help us better serve their network and application management needs in the future. We had a great discussion, there was a lot of [...]
Network World reports there were 4 vendor announcements on 10 GbE solutions this week, from Brocade, Extreme Networks, 3Com and Force10 respectively. Demand is driven by application growth, massive virtualization deployments and hunger for more storage. In fact, the article claims that 10 GbE is expected to peak in 2009, as vendors readies for the [...]
We had a great conversation with Steve Steinke from 451 Group a couple of weeks ago, and was just informed that he covered us in an impact report called “ExtraHop stakes a claim in the frontier between network and application management“. 451 clients can access the full report via the link above, Steve really got [...]
On Network World today, the Robot Fight Club and this article on “The Internet Sky is Falling” has been dueling all morning for Most Read supremacy.
Although a lot of the reader comments derided the author for the alarmist tone of the article, I think some of its main points are valid. Just like that Brown [...]
It’s no surprise to any of our reader that Virtualization brings unique challenges for application and network performance management, it’s a topic that was covered in a previous post.
This week, Network World came out with an article based on a Network Instruments survey on this very topic. 442 IT professionals were surveyed, and highlights of [...]
IT is really a pretty hard job, like it or not, we seem to take abuses from all directions: management, irate customers on the phone, idiot users etc. But you shouldn’t have to put up with additional frustration from the tools you use. The sad part is, many of you are fighting with the management [...]