Category: ExtraHop News
ExtraHop Wins Best of Interop 2013 in Las Vegas
IT Operations teams are under the gun. They need to tackle a growing list of new internal and business projects while supporting all the existing applications that keep the business running. It’s no easy task, but ExtraHop is here to help. Our solution provides IT operational intelligence, helping IT answer the question, “What is happening [...]
How to Answer the SharePoint Monitoring Questions You Care About
Microsoft has sold more than 125 million licenses of its SharePoint collaboration platform to over 65,000 organizations. With SharePoint environments scaling to accommodate more users and more content, IT professionals responsible for managing SharePoint performance are under more pressure than ever to keep things running well. The good news: ExtraHop now offers a free add-on [...]
Reimagining Packet Capture in Light of Riverbed’s Opnet Acquisition
ExtraHop recently announced a method of packet capture that enables network and security teams to capture packets of interest with surgical precision. This capability preserves all the benefits of packet capture—namely, an exact record of what caused a performance slowdown or policy breach—without the downsides of traditional methods. Scroll down to the bottom of this [...]
Why Visibility Across Tiers Is Important for DBAs
Database administrators (DBAs) are feeling the heat. Database profilers cannot be run continuously in production due to the overhead they impose. Without them, though, DBAs are flying blind. What DBAs need is a better way to understand database performance in production environments. That’s the message we heard repeatedly at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 last week in [...]
Why ExtraHop + Splunk Integration Matters
The new Splunk App for ExtraHop captures real-time metrics that are otherwise difficult or impossible to log. Splunk has made headlines over the past few months for its successful IPO and powerful Big Data approach to log file analysis. IT Operations teams all over the world use Splunk Enterprise software to free them from the [...]
Lowering the Cost of Entry for Application Performance Management (APM)
The application performance management (APM) industry is evolving rapidly in response to two intertwined trends: Businesses are placing a greater emphasis on application performance, and IT Operations teams need a holistic view across the datacenter in real time. At ExtraHop Networks, we’re doing our part to speed the development of the industry both in terms [...]
ExtraHop is Up for a Stevie, the Oscar Award of the Business World
What do you know about The Stevie Awards? Upon their introduction in 2002, the New York Post called them “the business world’s own Oscar Awards.” The awards’ founder, Michael P. Gallagher, conceived of them after the Enron scandal as a way to recognize commendable business leaders and “restore public confidence and investor trust.” The name Stevie is [...]
ExtraHop Application Performance Monitoring Comes to the Cisco UCS Express Platform
Cisco continues to promote its Unified Computing System (UCS) vision for simplifying IT at Cisco Live this week where ExtraHop will be exhibiting at booth #2110. UCS products combine x86 server hardware, virtualization platforms including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and Cisco networking fabric to tie it all together. The UCS push shows that, although Cisco [...]