News events
Root-cause analysis made easier
July 30, 2010
Alaska Airlines slashes troubleshooting with ExtraHop Network's unique network management appliance [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks Changes the Troubleshooting Game: Interop Video
May 21, 2010
At Interop this year, TMCnet had the opportunity to speak with a number of key industry players, including Jesse Rothstein CEO and Founder with ExtraHop Networks. Rothstein visited the TMCnet media booth for an interview captured in this video. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks Demo at Interop Las Vegas 2010
May 4, 2010
Jesse Rothstein, Founder & CEO interviews with Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director [Watch video…]
Interop Las Vegas 2010 – Cloud Based Stream Analysis
May 4, 2010
Raja Mukerji, President and co-founder of ExtraHop, discusses Network Timeout, a free public service that provides a community-based analysis system to examine data flows in context. [Watch video…]
April 28, 2010
Category: Best Startup
ExtraHop Networks
As a relative newcomer to the network management space, ExtraHop Networks gets its foot in the door with a promise of performance and scalability combined with simplicity. [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
Category: Network Management, Monitoring & Testing
ExtraHop Networks -- Network Timeout
ExtrahHop's Network Timeout is a free application analysis tool that takes packet captures and presents application analysis reports that can be used for trouble-shooting and application performance management. [Read more…]
Interop's hot new tech products
April 27, 2010
Product name: Network Timeout
Key features: Free Web service provides "sophisticated analysis of network packet captures" and gives network and application experts a place to collaborate and troubleshoot problems. ExtraHop says the community-based Web site will "improve access to network- and application-analysis solutions and build a broad technical knowledge base among IT professionals." [Read more…]
Free Service Analyzes Packet Traffic Offline
April 27,2010
ExtraHop Networks wants to make an impression on network managers with a new free service that allows them to analyze packet traffic patterns offline. [Read more…]
April 26, 2010
Seattle-based ExtraHop Networks, a network-management technology startup, said today it has formed an alliance with F5 Networks (NASDAQ GS: FFIV), also based in Seattle, to collaborate on new products and marketing and distribution efforts. [Read more…]
10 IT management technology start-ups to watch
November 30, 2009
Why it's worth watching: In the realm of advanced computing and virtual systems, the network matters. And more important, application performance across a next-generation network matters because it directly impacts business transactions. ExtraHop provides data that both network engineers and application performance managers need to understand how to fine-tune the environment to best support business transactions. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Goes Extra Mile For Network Monitoring
October 28, 2009
Why You Should Care: ExtraHop says its Application Delivery Assurance System is the first network monitoring tool to provide visibility across all seven OSI layers of the network, leading to better network troubleshooting and application performance. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks - Favorite Startup
NWJobs People's Picks 2009
This Seattle-based network management company is, in the words of one happy employee, "a model startup." Launched in December 2008 by two engineering veterans of F5 Networks, it's got all the essential elements: a vibrant energy among a razor-sharp group of people who want to introduce something new to the market; a work-hard-play-hard mentality that finds the whole staff out together playing bar trivia one night and chatting online about cloud technology at 2 a.m. the next; and yes, a ping pong, er, conference table. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance System v2.0
July 17, 2009
Tools that help IT managers manage and view network applications can be difficult to use and offer little application visibility. However, ExtraHop’s Application Delivery Assurance system v2.0 provides just the opposite. [Read more…]
Marc Andreessen Sees Big Opportunity in Web's Infrastructure
July 5, 2009
WebappVM, Apptio, ExtraHop and Good Data are some of their current investments in the infrastructure of the web. Marc said they would be looking at more investments in cloud computing startups. “We think that networking is going to follow the same curve as the workstation,” Andreessen said. Moore’s law is going to allow companies to build smart, next-generation devices that are based on a commodity infrastructure platform. [Read more…]
Network performance management evolution: Involving other IT domains
June 11, 2009
"I think ExtraHop is doing a great job of jumping right in and giving details that both the network people want to see, as well as the application support people want to see," he said. "And by providing that combined viewpoint, they really get buy-in from both those teams." [Read more…]
ExtraHop Networks upgrades troubleshooting system
May 26, 2009
As more network equipment vendors take on 10 Gigabit Ethernet, ExtraHop Networks instrumented its network and application performance management technology to be able to monitor such large-scale 10G environments. [Read more…]
Interop: les premiers signes de la reprise dans la dépense IT?
May 25, 2009
ExtraHop is a startup specializing in network performance management, run by some of the engineers who worked on BIG-IP from F5. Their agent-less solution aims to identify the origins of performance problems by analysing the data moving over the network from layers 4 to 7. Their solution appears very promising in a very fragmented market. [Read more…]
NYK Business Systems Americas - ExtraHop customer profile
May 4, 200449
I recently had the opportunity to communicate with the Application Support Manager at NYK Business Systems Americas, Inc. to learn more about what the company was doing and why they chose to deploy products from ExtraHop Networks (see the post, ExtraHop for more information about ExtraHop). [Read more…]
ExtraHop enters competitive networking management space
April 23, 2009
Seattle-based startup ExtraHop Networks, which develops tools that allow large companies to monitor and manage their networks, faces tough competition. Among the large tech companies that already sell networking management software and hardware include IBM (IBM.N) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) and Microsoft (MSFT.O). In addition, ExtraHop competes against Austin, Texas-based NetQoS Inc. and Westford, Mass.-based NetScout Systems Inc. [Read more…]
ExtraHop raises $5.1M to manage your network
April 14, 2009
ExtraHop, a company that makes devices for application and network management, has raised $5.1 million in a first round of venture funding from Madrona Venture Partners, as well as well-known angel investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. [Read more…]
Network Companies Secure Nearly $20 Million in VC Cash
April 14, 2009
Despite the economic downturn, investment firms are putting their faith and funding into network start-ups that promise to help corporate IT better manage application performance, virtual systems and information. While many companies consider layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, ExtraHop Networks… [is] securing venture capital funding, which could help them grow their compan[y] during the recession. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Hauls In $5.1M to Help Companies Manage Their Networks Efficiently
April 14, 2009
And the hits keep coming. In a busy week for financing deals, Seattle-based ExtraHop Networks is announcing today it has raised a $5.1 million Series A round, led by Madrona Venture Group. Prominent angel investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz also participated in the funding round, which closed at the end of February. [Read more…]
Marc Andreessen, Madrona back ExtraHop Networks with $5 mil.
April 14, 2009
ExtraHop Networks today is announcing $5.1 million in funding from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, former Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz and Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. [Read more…]
March 31, 2009
Management of systems, applications and various services has always been challenging. Add virtualization into the mix and the task becomes much more complex. I’ve spoken with a number of companies that have taken it upon themselves to address this issue. This time, I had an opportunity to speak with Jessie Rothstein, co-founder and CEO, of ExtraHop Networks about their Application Delivery Assurance system. [Read more…]
NSRI USA Deploys ExtraHop's Application Delivery Assurance System
March 25, 2009
NSRI, the IT division of a global Japanese shipping company and a marine transportation provider, reportedly has streamlined their application delivery support system by deploying ExtraHop’s Application Delivery Assurance system. [Read more…]
How to Save Time in Network Troubleshooting
March 23, 2009
The ExtraHop system starts auto-discovery, monitoring all apps, devices and transactions (tens of thousands of them, all in real time). The system sends out proactive alerts on potential problems, so network engineers don’t have to sift through mountains of offline packet dumps. [Read more…]
ExtraHop: like Google Maps for your network
February 9, 2009
Mission: Provide IT directors with an adjustable map of their computer network, with the ability to get a long-range view and to zoom in on specific areas. [Read more…]
December 17, 2008
ExtraHop Networks landed on the scene recently with an appliance designed to cut troubleshooting time for applications and network teams. Now the vendor is making its packet capture and analysis technology available via the iPhone. Because network engineers are increasingly mobile, ExtraHop designed its product with a user interface that was both minimal and complete. "We simplified the visualization and tried to expose the most useful metrics at a glance, to help users determine the right course of action quickly." [Read more…]
December 9, 2008
Every once in a while, a new company with an innovative technology comes along that makes you say “Wow, this is the beginning of something big.” Well, that was just the feeling I had when the ExtraHop Team first explained to me their vision and demonstrated their interface. [Read more…]
December 8, 2008
You don't see many new companies launching computer network appliances in this climate. But ExtraHop, a Seattle startup backed by Madrona Venture Group and led by former F5 Networks (engineers), is taking the leap. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Eases Application Performance
December 8, 2008
Many products on the market today are too high level or too detailed, with few capabilities to bridge the gap. ExtraHop recently said its ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance appliance provides both high-level, aggregate performance statistics, application-aware processing, and packet-level decodes, making the product suitable for both the business manager monitoring status and the network and application engineer troubleshooting issues. [Read more…]
ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance System
December 8, 2008
New start-up ExtraHop Networks' flagship product offering is a network traffic monitoring and analysis appliance that can be used by network administrators for such tasks as performance tuning, network troubleshooting, and capacity planning. The appliance is deployed passively on the network—off of a SPAN or TAP—and is able to automatically sniff and decipher the protocols it understands, displaying collected information in drill-down, point-and-click screens in a Web-based GUI. [Read more…]
ExtraHop's New Take on App Monitoring
December 5, 2008
Despite decades of effort, troubleshooting applications is still hard. ExtraHop, which comes out of stealth today with the launch of its Application Delivery Assurance Appliance, thinks it’s got the answer. Backed with $1.5 million from Madrona Venture Partners, the 10-person company is capitalizing on recent increases in switch and processing capacity that make it possible to analyze all the traffic on a network. [Read more…]
Start-up aims to reduce troubleshooting time
December 4, 2008
Seattle-based start-up ExtraHop Networks next week will unveil its flagship appliance that 10 beta customers put in place earlier this year to more quickly identify application performance problems across sophisticated, distributed networks. [Read more…]