Posts
1.26.16
TCP RTOs: Retransmission Timeouts & Application Performance Degradation
Learn about RTOs, what causes TCP retransmission timeouts, and how to eliminate them quickly to improve application performance.
Justin Baker
6.25.13
Tap the Wire Data Inside Your Cisco UCS Environment for IT Operational Intelligence
ExtraHop takes a better approach to monitoring performance in UCS environments, equipping IT teams to confidently migrate business-critical applications to UCS.
Justin Baker
5.8.13
ExtraHop Wins Best of Interop 2013 in Las Vegas
ExtraHop for AWS does something that's not been possible before – offers visibility into how all parts of a customer's systems are performing in the cloud.
Justin Baker
2.19.13
How to Answer the SharePoint Monitoring Questions You Care About
Learn how to get answers quickly for SharePoint questions that teams can spend days trying to tease out with legacy monitoring tools with real time SharePoint tools from ExtraHop.
Justin Baker
1.23.13
Storage Performance Monitoring: 3 Metrics Needed for Holistic Visibility
These three real-world examples demonstrate the value of of CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI transaction metrics in the context of other application and infrastructure performance.
Justin Baker
12.19.12
Aberdeen Report: The Value of End-to-End APM and How to Achieve It
Read the new Aberdeen Group report that shows the value and benefits for companies that adopt new, end-to-end approaches to application performance management (APM).
Justin Baker
11.7.12
Performance Metric of the Month: HTTP Payload Details
ExtraHop analyzes HTTP payloads in real time, including REST, JSON, AJAX, JavaScript, SOAP/XML, and HTML5. IT Ops teams can define metrics and send them to Splunk.
Justin Baker
10.11.12
Why Visibility Across Tiers Is Important for DBAs
Learn the 10 capabilities ExtraHop delivers to DBAs who need a better way to understand database performance in production environments without the overhead.
Justin Baker
9.17.12
Why ExtraHop + Splunk Integration Matters
Read how the Splunk App for ExtraHop enables IT teams to record important real-time metrics in Splunk that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to log.
Justin Baker
9.12.12
Microsoft's 1024-Bit RSA Key-Size Requirement and Other IT Burdens
Learn how ExtraHop tracks the usage of all SSL certificates used in your environment in just a few clicks to get ready for Microsoft's release an update blocking the use of RSA keys using less than 1024-bit encryption.
Justin Baker
9.4.12
ExtraHop v3.7 - APM Improvements for Ease of Use and Visualization
Learn how version 3.7 of the ExtraHop system helps IT teams better visualize application performance with features like geomaps and role-based dashboards.
Justin Baker
8.22.12
Lowering the Cost of Entry for Application Performance Management (APM)
Subscription-based pricing significantly lowers the cost of entry and risk when deploying enterprise-grade APM capabilities.
Justin Baker
8.20.12
The 2012 Gartner MQ for APM: What IT Operations Teams Need to Know
IT Operations teams responsible for numerous applications have different needs than outlined in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM.
Justin Baker
8.9.12
TCP: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 1
While we at ExtraHop love the higher-order application protocols like HTTP, the SQL family, and memcache, we are fascinated by TCP. Obsessed, even.
Justin Baker
8.1.12
ExtraHop is Up for a Stevie, the Oscar Award of the Business World
The Stevie awards are the "Oscar Awards for Business" and we're proud to have been nominated in three categories including Hardware - Computer for Application Inspection Triggers.
Justin Baker
7.24.12
Dealing with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Data Overload, Part 2
In talking with IT Operation teams, we hear a common complaint: other APM products leave them to try to correlate events by sifting through a flood of data.
Justin Baker
7.17.12
Dealing with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Data Overload, Part 1
IT teams don't need more data; they need data that is actionable. APM solutions that produce a flood of out-of-context data actually hinder problem resolution.
Justin Baker
7.2.12
How Much is Too Much? Quest, Dell, and Legacy Application Performance Management Solutions
Dell paid $2.4 billion for Quest—more than 55 times Quest Software's earnings for the last 12 months. Is this a good deal for Dell or its acquired customers?
Justin Baker
6.6.12
Case Study: When Application Performance Is About Efficiency, Not Just Speed
Read a case study about how Concur optimized the efficiency of its SaaS platform using ExtraHop application performance management technology.
Justin Baker
5.3.12
Join ExtraHop at Interop Las Vegas and Citrix Synergy!
Stop by booth #1943 at Interop or booth #616 at Synergy and see how the ExtraHop Application Performance Management solution continues to evolve as the best real-time transaction monitoring solution for IT Operations.
Justin Baker
4.10.12
Major Nordic Retail Group Axstores Chooses ExtraHop to Ensure Smooth Application Migration
Axstores used the ExtraHop system to ensure its application migration did not disrupt business operations through unplanned downtime or unexpected poor performance.
Justin Baker
4.4.12
Best-of-Breed: A Cost-Effective Alternative to "Death Star APM"
A complementary, best-of-breed approach to APM tends to appeal to technologists, but the appeal should extend to business decision-makers as well.
Justin Baker
2.28.12
From Tech Startup to Tech Powerhouse - Two Key Additions to the ExtraHop Team: Sujal Patel and Eric Scollard
Sujal Patel and Eric Scollard join ExtraHop Networks from Isilon Systems and bring impressive experience in turning a tech startup into a tech powerhouse.
Justin Baker
2.20.12
Why Healthcare IT Teams Need Agentless Application Performance Monitoring
Healthcare IT teams need to monitor performance of electronic health records (EHR), mobile applications, and other systems to ensure patients get the best care.
Justin Baker
1.18.12
Forrester Application Performance Management Market Overview Report for Q4, 2011
The Forrester APM Market Overview proposes an APM reference model that customers can use to plan their APM strategies and evaluates 26 APM vendors in the context of the reference model.
Justin Baker
12.15.11
EMA Report: ExtraHop Fills Critical Real-Time Application Performance Monitoring Gaps Left by NetScout Systems
Former NetScout Vice President Jim Frey documents the value of ExtraHop's real-time application performance monitoring when combined with NetScout deployments.
Justin Baker
11.30.11
Performance Metric of the Month: Packet Loss, Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) and Round-Trip Times in Virtualized Systems
The ExtraHop system detects virtual packet loss, a hard-to-detect phenomenon that can degrade application performance in virtual environments.
Justin Baker
10.25.11
Applying Lean Methodology to Application Performance Management
Lean APM: The ExtraHop system provides the mapping and measuring capabilities needed to continuously improve application performance using lean methodology.
Justin Baker
10.17.11
RIM BlackBerry Outage Preventable with ExtraHop Database Performance Monitoring
RIM could have avoided the massive RIM BlackBerry outage with passive continuous database performance monitoring. Find out how to prevent service outages.
Justin Baker
10.7.11
By the power of ExtraHop, I found bugs!
Justin Baker
9.29.11
Performance Metric of the Month: CIFS Errors
Find CIFS errors in networked storage in real-time with ExtraHop. Use our system equally well on other storage networking protocols such as NFS and iSCSI.
Justin Baker
9.28.11
Data Storage, Impact by the Numbers, and What It Means for Application Performance Management (APM)
The amount of data stored digitally has exploded since 1986. Passive, network-based APM tools are able to monitor data storage and fix Big Data-induced problems
Justin Baker
9.27.11
Oracle Database Performance Monitoring with ExtraHop: An Attractive Alternative to Agents and Profilers
Monitor Oracle databases without agents, without profilers. ExtraHop's network-based database performance management requires no host-based instrumentation.
Justin Baker
9.19.11
Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and the Five Functional Dimensions of APM
Gartner's five functional dimensions are too narrowly stated in terms of legacy APM approaches and capabilities. ExtraHop's network-based APM does more.
Justin Baker
7.12.11
Performance Metric of the Month: PAWS Dropped SYNs and Network Address Translation
Network performance metric PAWS Dropped SYNs counts synchronizations dropped due to the Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers (PAWS) mechanism (of TCP)
Justin Baker
6.2.11
"It's Not My VM—It's the Application": It's Really Virtual Packet Loss
Virtual Packet Loss is common in virtualized environments. Virtualized applications perform poorly when an oversubscribed host runs too many virtual machines.
Justin Baker
3.7.11
Performance Metric of the Month: Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) and Application Performance Degradation
Learn more about TCP retransmission including what it is, timeout causes, and how to eliminate RTOs.
Justin Baker
9.16.10
ExtraHop in the U.K.
Justin Baker
9.2.10
Getting the Most Out of Your Network Management Investment
Justin Baker
8.18.10
SLA Monitoring: Using Internal SLA's to Improve Application Performance
Justin Baker
8.16.10
Network Timeout, a free web service from ExtraHop Networks, leverages AWS
Justin Baker
8.4.10
ExtraHop Makes Root-cause Analysis Easy for Alaska Airlines
Justin Baker
7.29.10
ExtraHop exhibiting at the F5 Summit
Justin Baker
6.25.10
Visit the ExtraHop booth at Cisco Live!
Justin Baker
6.14.10
ExtraHop Presenting at Morgan Stanley's CTO Summit
Justin Baker
5.18.10
ExtraHop Selected by Globespan Capital to Present to its CIO Advisory Board
Justin Baker
4.28.10
ExtraHop Wins Best of Interop—twice!
Justin Baker
4.27.10
F5 partners with ExtraHop
Justin Baker
4.26.10
We're hitting the ground running at Interop—and launching Network Timeout!
Justin Baker
4.20.10
Interop panel: EMC, CA, and Jesse from ExtraHop
Justin Baker
4.15.10
Network Timeout gets nominated for Best of Interop!
Justin Baker
1.28.10
I like to finger-point at our IT folks
Justin Baker
1.4.10
What Matters Most in 2010
Justin Baker
12.28.09
The Biggest IT Stories of 2009
Justin Baker
12.8.09
VMware Losing Its Grip on the Market?
Justin Baker
12.2.09
Network World's Top 10 IT Management Start-ups to Watch
Justin Baker
11.30.09
L7 Visibility into Your "Middle Boxes"
Justin Baker
11.6.09
No, We Run at 10 Gb
No, We Run at 10 Gb
Justin Baker
11.6.09
WAN Optimization Considerations
Justin Baker
10.28.09
Optimize Application Performance in a Day
Justin Baker
10.23.09
When Virtual Servers create real headaches
Justin Baker
9.24.09
When L3 Stats Just Aren't Enough
Justin Baker
9.9.09
Fix Application Problems 200% Faster Than Your Competition
Justin Baker
8.10.09
Comparing NetScout, NetQoS, OPNET and ExtraHop
Justin Baker
7.10.09
Separate Marketing Hype from Product Reality
Justin Baker
6.18.09
Great Article on New Network Engineer Skill Requirements
Justin Baker
6.16.09
Top 10 Tips for Tuning BIG-IP
Justin Baker
6.11.09
When Alerts Actually Become Useful
Justin Baker
5.27.09
ExtraHop Goes 2.0
Justin Baker
5.15.09
Packet Sniffers on Steroids? Why Would I Want That?
Justin Baker
5.7.09
Fighting with Your Management Tools and You Don't Even Know It?
Justin Baker
5.1.09
The Big Internet Brown Out of 2012?
Justin Baker
4.29.09
Transatlantic Latency On Your LAN
Justin Baker
4.23.09
Stop Fighting With Your Management Tools
Justin Baker
4.22.09
Moving Towards the Private Cloud
Justin Baker
4.16.09
Vendor Wars Episode II: A New Hope
Justin Baker
4.15.09
Vendor Chronicles Part I or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Saved $1M
Justin Baker
4.14.09
ExtraHop Announces $5.1M in Series A Funding
Justin Baker
3.31.09
I come to work daily to defend my job
Justin Baker
3.27.09
Speed Up Your Cloud
Justin Baker
3.25.09
Survey Says: No Business Case for IPv6, We'll Use NATs instead
Justin Baker
3.16.09
Unified Computing Demands Unified Management
Justin Baker
3.12.09
When Your CFO Can't Email
Justin Baker
3.3.09
The Management Impact of Virtualization
Justin Baker
2.25.09
To Nagle or Not to Nagle, That is the Question
Justin Baker
2.20.09
The Curious Case of Packet Sniffers
Justin Baker
2.12.09
Replay of an IT Support Incident - ExtraHop In the Wild
Justin Baker
2.9.09
ExtraHop: Like Google Earth for Your Network
Justin Baker
2.6.09
New Year Resolutions for Network Engineers
Justin Baker
2.3.09
Do you know the 7 Deadly Sins of Network Management?
Justin Baker
1.12.09
CIP Firewall
Justin Baker
12.22.08
A Network Management Revolution - Fueled by Faster Processors and Cheaper Storage
Justin Baker
12.17.08
An iPhone for the Holidays?
Justin Baker
12.15.08
War Stories or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Application
Justin Baker