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.

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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.

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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.

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I love statistics—who doesn’t? Stats are a great way to identify important trends, behaviors, and market challenges—which is precisely why a recent infographic published on ReadWriteWeb about data storage grabbed my attention.

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This week saw the release of the Gartner 2011 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring* (APM). In February 2010, Gartner issued its first Magic Quadrant for the APM industry in which it placed 19 vendors in its famous (or perhaps infamous) Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, and Niche Players quadrants based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. In addition, Gartner introduced five dimensions of functionality that are required for any comprehensive APM offering. The first four dimensions monitor end-to-end application performance, while the last dimension provides real-time and historic correlation and analysis of that data. In the latest 2011 Magic Quadrant, Gartner devotes 9 out of 40 pages to describing the five functional dimensions.

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