Category: Press Coverage
The 2012 Gartner MQ for APM: What IT Operations Teams Need to Know
Gartner has released its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report, highlighting growth in APM spending and a rapidly evolving market. This year’s report evaluated vendors according to Gartner’s five dimensions for APM and added the requirement that APM vendors include Java and .NET code instrumentation in their solution which requires agents. Despite [...]
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 [...]
From Tech Startup to Tech Powerhouse – Two Key Additions to the ExtraHop Team: Sujal Patel and Eric Scollard
Today, we are delighted to announce two great additions to the ExtraHop team: Sujal Patel and Eric Scollard. Both join ExtraHop from Isilon Systems and bring impressive experience in turning a tech startup into a tech powerhouse. Isilon Systems CEO, Sujal Patel, Joins ExtraHop Board Sujal joins ExtraHop as a Board Member while remaining CEO [...]
Forrester Application Performance Management Market Overview Report for Q4, 2011
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, [...]
Going the ExtraHop for Real-Time SSL Decryption
The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is now capable of completely hardware-driven SSL decryption at network speeds up to 10Gbps Events such as the recent hacking of U.S. Government officials’ Google Gmail accounts and Sony’s PlayStation Network as well as the RSA SecurID breach have highlighted the need for greater data security. In response, more [...]
ExtraHop at Interop Las Vegas 2011
Recently at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, InformationWeek TV stopped by the ExtraHop booth to see the latest in network-based application performance management. In the video below, titled “ExtraHop Tackles Application Performance Management,” reporter Andrew Conry Murray interviews ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein about how the ExtraHop system extracts detailed, real-time health and performance information without [...]
ExtraHop and Keynote Deliver Plug-and-Play End-to-End Application Performance Management
Today we announced a partnership with Keynote Systems, an Internet and mobile cloud monitoring provider. The partnership is a natural fit, as our solutions are exceptionally complementary; Keynote provides the outside-looking-in view of critical web applications, while ExtraHop provides the agentless inside-looking-out view of the datacenter. The joint solution is great news for our customers [...]
Alaska Airlines uses ExtraHop to ensure that flights take off
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article titled Ensuring That Flight Takes Off – From The Data Center. The article describes why Alaska Airlines turned to ExtraHop Networks to help solve its application performance issues. Chris Grey, Alaska Airlines’ director of IT operations, explains, “We’ve definitely seen a positive impact, in many cases [the [...]
Virtual Packet Loss: The Silent Killer of Network Performance
A few weeks ago, Virtualization Journal published an article contributed by ExtraHop called Virtual Packet Loss: The Silent Killer of Network Performance. In the article we describe a common problem called virtual packet loss (VPL) that many of our customers face in heavily virtualized environments.