News Articles
The BYOD Dilemma - February 4, 2013
[By ExtraHop EMEA VP Owen Cole] Whilst there’s a misconception that productivity will instantly increase once workers are able to bring their own devices into the office, it is true that in workplaces where a BYOD culture doesn’t exist, there’s a demand for it. The challenge of having a multitude of devices is how best to monitor and manage them so that they don’t end up disrupting IT operations. In order to accommodate for new technologies coming into the workplace, organisations must adjust how they monitor these new devices on the network, rather than relying on the software already installed on the products, which is a method of monitoring made nearly untenable by BYOD. [Read more...]
The Mystery of Application Performance Management - January 15, 2013
[By ExtraHop EMEA VP Owen Cole] In today’s overcrowded technology space, it’s easy to see why IT managers struggle with clarity around cloud computing. With so many new devices and applications coming on to the network, the entire management of IT as a whole can become cloudy itself. What’s more important is that the IT department has full visibility of the whole network as well as all the applications running over the network. Currently, IT departments are primarily using traditional agent-based monitoring tools, which frankly, aren’t cutting it. Organizations are struggling to achieve visibility due to additional day-to-day pressures, the complexity around how to manage traditional tools, and the difficulty of adjusting to a rising number of applications and servers. [Read more...]
How to Build a Private Cloud: Advice from the Experts - January 7, 2013
The Practice Fusion IT team used the ExtraHop system to baseline several key performance indicators, including application response time, and then they spun up a parallel virtual infrastructure to compare performance. “We could prove that performance was the same or slightly better on the virtual infrastructure. Because the HP servers were reaching end-of-life, we would have spent up to $75,000 purchasing new hardware and revalidating the software for the new platform,” Hluboky said. With performance metrics in hand, Practice Fusion was able to avoid that expenditure, and they were able to prove to the rest of the organization that cloud-based performance would live up to their expectations. [Read more...]