ExtraHop Networks Sponsors New Aberdeen Research on Application and Network Visibility
Research Findings Support the Value of ExtraHop's Approach to Managing Application and Network Performance
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - September 9, 2009) - ExtraHop Networks, Inc., the pioneer of
innovative new Application Delivery Assurance systems, today announced the
sponsorship of a new report from industry analyst firm Aberdeen Group,
"Benchmarking Network and Application Visibility." As a report sponsor,
ExtraHop Networks is making this research available for free
download at www.extrahop.com.
For this study, Aberdeen surveyed 156 respondents across a range of
industries and crafted detailed profiles of best-in-class companies that
succeeded in leveraging leading-edge solutions to keep the enterprise
running. The Aberdeen report found that the management strategies of
top-performing companies rely on a balanced perspective between network
visibility down to the packet level and application visibility at the
transaction level. The best-in class respondents in this research
initiative were more than twice as likely to resolve performance issues
before they impact the business.
"As server virtualization and cloud computing have proliferated in the last
few years, the importance of network and application visibility has risen
exponentially," said Jeffrey Debarros, Senior Research Analyst, Network and
Application Performance Management at Aberdeen. "Leading-edge enterprises
are looking beyond traditional monitoring and moving towards a new class of
solutions that combines a unified perspective for network infrastructure
and application visibility with more advanced performance analysis and
proactive thresholding and alerting capabilities. Our research revealed
significant gaps between best-in-class organizations and the rest of the
industry in their ability to maximize the performance and availability of
mission-critical applications."
Aberdeen's research details the increasing need for a more granular,
application-specific, and proactive approach to ensure the reliability of
vital business processes. The report also reveals that companies that have
succeeded in improving application availability and preventing performance
issues have changed their focus significantly from general network
monitoring to more specific application monitoring and analysis. Lastly,
the report provides specific guidance and detailed recommendations on how
to reach best-in-class status for application and network management.
"We built the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system to ensure that
business-critical transactions don't fail. The ExtraHop system provides a
unified view for the application and network teams to come together and
gain unparalleled insights into their production applications," said Jesse
Rothstein, CEO of ExtraHop Networks. "The Aberdeen report corroborates our
belief that L7, real-time transaction analysis is vital to successful
application delivery."
About ExtraHop Networks
ExtraHop Networks, Inc. was founded in early 2007 by Jesse Rothstein and
Raja Mukerji, engineering veterans from F5 Networks and architects of the
BIG-IP v9 product. The company's pioneering Application Delivery Assurance
system is the industry's first completely passive network and application
management platform that provides application-level visibility with zero
agents, configuration, or overhead. The privately held company is
headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and funded by Madrona Venture Group
and other private investors.
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