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.
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, including ExtraHop Networks, in the context of the Forrester APM reference model.
Read more on Forrester Application Performance Management Market Overview Report for Q4, 2011…
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.
Read more on Going the ExtraHop for Real-Time SSL Decryption…
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.
