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3.29.12
Getting Clear on Virtual APM Appliances by Seeing Intra-VM Traffic
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…
Adam Sinnett
3.26.12
ExtraHop Recognized as one of the Hottest Companies in Seattle
For the third year in a row, ExtraHop is thrilled to be recognized as one of Lead411's "Hottest Companies in Seattle." ExtraHop is one of only 44 Seattle-based businesses to win, selected from 1,130…
Adam Sinnett
1.6.12
Finding the APM Solution That's Best for Your Company
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…
Adam Sinnett
1.4.12
2011 – A Banner Year for ExtraHop
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…
Adam Sinnett
11.23.11
It's Time to Rethink Application Performance Management
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…
Adam Sinnett
11.16.11
"It's the Network's Fault": Avoiding the IT Blame Game with Network-Based Application Performance Management
Blame the network? Sure, but what about cosmic rays?Play the IT Blame Game at www.itblame.com. "I think the greatest measure of a good network engineer is to have the ability to demonstrate and…
Adam Sinnett
11.10.11
ExtraHop Honored for Innovation of the Year by Seattle Business Magazine
Last week Seattle Business Magazine recognized us for Innovation of the Year in its 2011 Information Technology Awards. While we won for our product innovation overall, what really sealed the deal was…
Adam Sinnett
11.4.11
Why Network-Based Application Performance Management (APM) Is Perfect for Monitoring Virtual and Cloud-Based Apps
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…
Adam Sinnett
9.13.11
Troubleshooting Today's Distributed Data Center: ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein Speaking Today at the AFCOM Data Center World Conference
Troubleshooting Today's Distributed Data Center will be the topic when our co-founder and CEO, Jesse Rothstein, speaks at the AFCOM Data Center World Conference this week at the Orlando World Center…
Adam Sinnett
8.24.11
Leading Analyst Praises ExtraHop's Network-Based Application Performance Management (APM) Approach
The application performance management (APM) market has been soaking up the spotlight lately, and for good reason. A recent NetForecast survey, for example, shows that good APM processes can…
Adam Sinnett
8.4.11
Application Performance Management (APM) in the Era of Big Data
Big Data is a tremendous challenge for enterprise IT management in general, and especially for application performance management (APM). A few weeks ago Virtual-Strategy Magazine published an article…
Adam Sinnett
7.11.11
ExtraHop Takes Application Performance Management (APM) to the Cloud
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…
Adam Sinnett
6.22.11
Getting Storage Teams on Board with Application Performance Management (APM)
When trying to determine the value of application performance management (APM) tools within your IT department, often the first step is to consult both the application and network teams. They deal…
Adam Sinnett
6.14.11
ExtraHop Introduces Performance Monitoring for Memcached and AMF
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…
Adam Sinnett
6.6.11
Going the ExtraHop for Real-Time SSL Decryption
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…
Adam Sinnett
5.26.11
ExtraHop at Interop Las Vegas 2011
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…
Adam Sinnett
5.6.11
Application Performance Management (APM) + Database Activity Monitoring (DAM): It's [Not] All About the Agents!
Adrian Lane, CTO of Securosis, recently wrote an article titled Database Monitoring Best Practices: Using DAM Tools for SearchSecurity.com. The article plays on a security angle but provides a nice…
Adam Sinnett
5.5.11
Introducing Application Inspection Triggers: Just Another Day in the Life of an ExtraHop Agent Buster
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…
Adam Sinnett
4.29.11
ExtraHop and SevOne Partner for Application-Aware Network Performance Management
Earlier this week we announced a partnership with SevOne to deliver the industry's ultimate end-to-end application-aware network performance management (ANPM) solution for monitoring business- and…
Adam Sinnett
4.19.11
Troubleshooting SAP with Application Performance Management (APM)
Computerworld UK reporter Leo King recently highlighted a global survey by PAC Consulting that found that 43 percent of SAP customers are dissatisfied with the system's response times across all…
Adam Sinnett
3.30.11
Enabling ITIL with the ExtraHop Application Performance Management Solution
As most IT professionals know, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) helps to identify good processes, practices, and structures for IT organizations, giving them a framework to…
Adam Sinnett
3.7.11
Database Performance Monitoring: The ExtraHop Application Performance Management Solution Now Monitors All Seven Major Databases
In December, Oracle launched SPARC Supercluster, claiming that the new database system can perform 30 million database transactions per minute—three times faster than the previous record set by IBM's…
Adam Sinnett
2.28.11
The Argument for Solving Database Performance Problems with Application Performance Management (APM)
Independent analyst and ZDNet blogger Dan Kusnetzky recently published a paper titled "Solving Database Performance Problems with Better Storage Performance." Then, last week, he included an…
Adam Sinnett
2.14.11
ExtraHop Talks Big Growth at 7th Annual AGC Conference
This week, ExtraHop Co-Founder and CEO Jesse Rothstein will be speaking at the America's Growth Capital 7th Annual West Coast Emerging Growth Conference. During the two-day event in San Francisco…
Adam Sinnett
1.19.11
Monitoring Storage I/O Latency with Application Performance Management Solutions
APM vendors need to focus on monitoring storage I/O latency as part of end-to-end transaction analysis There is a lot of conflicting information about what constitutes a great application performance…
Adam Sinnett
1.12.11
ExtraHop and Keynote Deliver Plug-and-Play End-to-End Application Performance Management
Today we announced a partnership with Keynote Systems, an Internet and mobile cloud monitoring provider. The partnership is a natural fit, as our solutions are exceptionally complementary; Keynote…
Adam Sinnett
1.4.11
Blackouts, Brownouts, and Application Aware Network Performance Management (AANPM)
ReadWriteWeb recently posted an article titled Major Internet Incidents and Outages of 2010 in which they describe the ten biggest Internet and website outages of the past year. The list of companies…
Adam Sinnett
12.21.10
Alaska Airlines uses ExtraHop to ensure that flights take off
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article titled Ensuring That Flight Takes Off – From The Data Center. The article describes why Alaska Airlines turned to ExtraHop Networks to help solve its…
Adam Sinnett
11.18.10
Virtual Packet Loss: The Silent Killer of Network Performance
A few weeks ago, Virtualization Journal published an article contributed by ExtraHop called Virtual Packet Loss: The Silent Killer of Network Performance. In the article we describe a common problem…
Adam Sinnett
10.15.10
ExtraHop Speaks on Both Coasts - Interop in New York and NCA Security & Technology Conference in Bellevue
The Fall 2010 Interop IT Conference is taking place in New York, NY next week. ExtraHop co-founder and CEO, Jesse Rothstein, has been invited to reprise his role on the Advances in Network Management…
Adam Sinnett