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The 2012 Gartner MQ for APM: What IT Operations Teams Need to Know
- Justin Baker
- August 20, 2012
Gartner has released its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report, highlighting growth in APM spending and a rapidly evolving market. This year's report evaluated…
TCP: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 1
- Justin Baker
- August 9, 2012
This post is written by Eric Thomas, Principal Solutions Architect at ExtraHop Networks. Many organizations struggle to find the right level of instrumentation to monitor the performance of their…
Dealing with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Data Overload, Part 2
- Justin Baker
- July 24, 2012
Last week, we summarized TRAC Research's Market Insight report, "Improving the Usability of APM Data: Essential Capabilities and Benefits." Read that post here. This week's post lays out one of…
Best-of-Breed: A Cost-Effective Alternative to "Death Star APM"
- Justin Baker
- April 4, 2012
The APM space is expanding and evolving at a rapid pace, leading to older established firms acquiring newer technologies to fill in the gaps in their solutions. As this evolution is certain to…
Getting Clear on Virtual APM Appliances by Seeing Intra-VM Traffic
- Adam Sinnett
- March 29, 2012
Virtualization continues to be something of a double-edged sword for businesses. One edge boosts the efficiency of IT infrastructures by providing improved flexibility, scalability, and significant…
Forrester Application Performance Management Market Overview Report for Q4, 2011
- Justin Baker
- January 18, 2012
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…
Finding the APM Solution That's Best for Your Company
- Adam Sinnett
- January 6, 2012
Selecting the right application performance monitoring (APM) solution can make a huge difference in the long run, especially when keeping in mind several important factors that influence the final…
2011 – A Banner Year for ExtraHop
- Adam Sinnett
- January 4, 2012
With the holiday decorations packed away and a new year upon us, we can't help but reflect on 2011. At ExtraHop, we had a fantastic year filled with many milestones as we continued to revolutionize…
EMA Report: ExtraHop Fills Critical Real-Time Application Performance Monitoring Gaps Left by NetScout Systems
- Justin Baker
- December 15, 2011
In a new white paper released yesterday, distinguished EMA Managing Research Director and former NetScout Vice President Jim Frey documents the value many enterprise IT shops have found in adding…
Performance Metric of the Month: Packet Loss, Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) and Round-Trip Times in Virtualized Systems
- Justin Baker
- November 30, 2011
Retransmission timeout and round-trip time metrics can reveal virtual packet loss. This month's Performance Metric turns to retransmission timeouts (RTOs) and round-trip times, particularly for…
It's Time to Rethink Application Performance Management
- Adam Sinnett
- November 23, 2011
By ExtraHop Networks CEO Jesse Rothstein When Raja Mukerji and I founded ExtraHop Networks in 2007, we had a vision for a powerful and elegant approach to application performance management (APM). We…
Why Network-Based Application Performance Management (APM) Is Perfect for Monitoring Virtual and Cloud-Based Apps
- Adam Sinnett
- November 4, 2011
Virtualization and cloud computing are taking enterprise IT by storm. Every customer that we work with is either expanding their virtualization practice or looking to see how they can take advantage…