Last week Seattle Business Magazine recognized us for Innovation of the Year in its 2011 Information Technology Awards. While we won for our product innovation overall, what really sealed the deal was our newest technology, Application Inspection Triggers, which we introduced in May of this year to analyst acclaim.
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One of the many advantages of a network-based approach to application performance management is that it requires no host-based instrumentation, which can often impose an onerous amount of overhead on production systems. Another advantage is that with network-based APM companies can easily get a dynamically updated, comprehensive view of application performance—all transactions passing over the network are analyzed at L2 to L7.
Cloud computing is finally a reality in most IT organizations. Research shows a major shift from companies merely thinking of the cloud as a far-off ideology to actually implementing it (and successfully, too!). In fact, a survey released at GigaO
M Structure last month suggested that we’ll see a 67 percent compound annual growth rate for cloud services over the next five years. The survey also found that 75 percent of participants expect two-thirds of their compute power to be in the cloud within the same timeframe.
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Real-time insight into web-services application performance is still an elusive holy grail for Web Operations teams. Fortunately for these groups, ExtraHop is helping them to get a lot closer.
Today, we announced two new modules for memcached and AMF that bring significant improvements to application-performance visibility for Web Operations teams and raise the bar for application performance management (APM) in general. While monitoring applications across the web tier always has been a core component of the ExtraHop system’s capabilities, these new modules extend that support further on both the front and back ends of the tier.
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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 popular applications and websites, including Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter, have made SSL encryption standard. In heavily regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services, HIPAA compliance and other data-protection laws also contribute to this elevated use of SSL encryption. In fact, according to the seventh edition of Palo Alto Networks’ Application Usage and Risk Report, more than 40 percent of businesses’ applications now are encrypted by SSL.
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