Summary: ExtraHop offers a great application performance management solution for the healthcare industry that helps healthcare IT teams efficiently support initiatives such as mobile applications, electronic health records (EHR), and policy compliance. Also, we’re at the HIMSS12 Conference this week in Las Vegas, booth #5238.

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Blame the network? Sure, but what about cosmic rays?
Play the IT Blame Game at www.itblame.com.

“I think the greatest measure of a good network engineer is to have the ability to demonstrate and prove to non-networking teams the reasons why the network is not to blame (and to take the flak when it is),” wrote one engineer on a networking forum. “It’s a fact of life that people will look to the network first at the first sign of trouble.”

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If you’re just getting back from summer vacation, be sure to check out this feature article written by Beth Schultz in Network World. In it, she details how Alaska Airlines is using the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system to more effectively perform root-cause analysis. Read more on ExtraHop Makes Root-cause Analysis Easy for Alaska Airlines…

It’s time for a little fun.

When something goes wrong with the network, or with an application, do you always get the blame?

When an app crashes, a server goes down, a database disappears, or squirrels eat the cords for dinner, it always seems to be your fault, doesn’t it?

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In any enterprise architecture, there are a lot of “middle boxes”. I’m talking about your load balancers, application delivery controllers, firewalls, NAT devices, proxy servers, and increasingly common these days, WANOp devices. These devices sit between the network and an end host and operate more or less transparently. While prevalent, middle boxes are really getting the short shrift when it comes to application-level metrics.

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