Category: Good Reads
Wire Data: The Visibility You Need for Microsoft Environments
If you run a “Microsoft shop,” then this blog post is a must-read. ExtraHop can help you improve the performance, efficiency, and security of your Microsoft environment by delivering real-time visibility through wire data. Wire data is complete applications and infrastructure communications—not just who is talking to whom, but what they are saying. ExtraHop analyzes the [...]
Understanding Data Integrity: Preserving Meaning in Aggregation
By Ryan Kosai, Senior Engineer, ExtraHop Networks. Ryan’s focus at ExtraHop is data analytics and machine learning. Every business-type I’ve ever met loves buzzwords, and the term du jour is “big data.” This is approximately the idea that when confronted with a giant pile of data, a computer can shake it and meaningful insights will [...]
Monitoring the Performance of Citrix XenDesktop 7 with ExtraHop
Citrix officially launched XenDesktop 7 at Citrix Synergy 2013 this week in Los Angeles. We’re at the conference to demonstrate how the ExtraHop platform equips IT organizations with the correlated, cross-tier visibility that they need to manage ever-growing XenDesktop deployments. In addition to real-time end-user experience insights, ExtraHop enables Citrix administrators to see into the [...]
Under the Hood: How ExtraHop Delivers 20Gbps of Real-Time Transaction Analysis
This post is authored by ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein. When we talk to IT teams who are considering ExtraHop, there’s often a discussion about scalability. People are skeptical, and rightfully so. Many monitoring vendors sell the dream of real-time, off-the-wire transaction analysis. In reality, they only do so for a subset of traffic and for [...]
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 [...]
Aberdeen Report: The Value of End-to-End APM and How to Achieve It
“Taking an end-to-end approach to application performance management can seem like the obvious thing to do. But it hasn’t been the way that performance management has traditionally worked. In order to implement an end-to-end performance management system, organizations need to overcome both internal divisions between IT teams and the old school performance management and monitoring [...]
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 [...]