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 GigaOM 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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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 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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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 invasive performance agents.

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Secure $14 million? Check!

Deliver unprecedented flexibility for real-time transaction analysis? Check!

Customize APM without legacy agent-based solutions? Check!

ExtraHop is on a roll. Today, just shortly after securing $14 million in series B financing from Meritech Capital Partners, a leading late-stage venture capital firm, and other investors, we released Application Inspection Triggers as part of version 3.5 of the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system. This new technology not only delivers an unprecedented level of flexibility for real-time network and application monitoring to customize performance monitoring of business-critical applications, but does it all without the cost, overhead, and deployment headaches of agent-based technologies.

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