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The Human Impact of Hyperscale IT Failure
- Isaac Roybal
- August 11, 2016
How do you reap the benefits of hyperscale IT while minimizing the risk of complex system failures that hurt your business, and, worst of all, hurt your customers?
How to Automatically Detect and Block Ransomware
- Tom Roeh
- July 13, 2016
Cybercriminals upped their game, so we're upping ours (and yours.) Learn how to detect and stop ransomware automatically.
For Ransomware Detection, Behavior Beats Signatures
- Tom Roeh
- May 11, 2016
We use four detection methods to provide early warning so IT teams can stop ransomware attacks in progress before the damage is done. The methods are...
Stream Processing vs. Continuous PCAP: The Big Shift in Monitoring Architectures
- Raja Mukerji
- May 9, 2016
Enterprise IT monitoring is undergoing a major shift, and stream processing architectures are going to come out on top.
The Big Idea Behind IT Operations Analytics (ITOA): IT Big Data
- Erik Giesa
- April 11, 2016
Learn what's driving the growth of IT operations analytics and how ITOA is data-driven, borrowing a lot from from Big Data principles.
The Four Data Sets Essential for IT Operations Analytics (ITOA)
- Erik Giesa
- February 19, 2015
[This is the second post in a multi-part series, last updated on April 11, 2016. Read the first post: The Big Idea Behind IT Operations Analytics (ITOA): IT Big Data] In my previous article, I…
Understanding Data Integrity: Preserving Meaning in Aggregation
- Ryan Kosai
- May 29, 2013
By Ryan Kosai, Senior Engineer, ExtraHop Networks. Ryan's focus at ExtraHop is data analytics and machine learning. Every business-type I've ever met loves buzzwords, and the term du jour is "big…
Why ExtraHop + Splunk Integration Matters
- Justin Baker
- September 17, 2012
The new Splunk App for ExtraHop captures real-time metrics that are otherwise difficult or impossible to log. Splunk has made headlines over the past few months for its successful IPO and powerful Big…
Data Storage, Impact by the Numbers, and What It Means for Application Performance Management (APM)
- Justin Baker
- September 28, 2011
I love statistics—who doesn't? Stats are a great way to identify important trends, behaviors, and market challenges—which is precisely why a recent infographic published on ReadWriteWeb about data…
Application Performance Management (APM) in the Era of Big Data
- Adam Sinnett
- August 4, 2011
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…
The Argument for Solving Database Performance Problems with Application Performance Management (APM)
- Adam Sinnett
- February 28, 2011
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…
Comparing NetScout, NetQoS, OPNET and ExtraHop
- Justin Baker
- August 10, 2009
We get asked this question a lot, "how do you compare to so and so"? The truth is, the "so and so" we're being compared to are usually great products with some impressive capabilities. But ExtraHop is…