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ExtraHop Networks Included in Gartner's APM Innovators List

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network-based application performance management (APM (News - Alert)) solutions, has been named in the December 2011 Gartner report, “APM Innovators: Driving APM Technology and Delivery Evolution.”

Authored by Gartner (News - Alert) Research Vice President Will Cappelli and Gartner Research Director Jonah Kowall, the report identifies seven innovative companies that APM decision-makers should take into consideration.

The researchers noted that APM is evolving in response to four central market requirements: the emergence of rich, multilayered and hard-to-instrument environments from which applications are being accessed, the increasing use of infrastructure and platform cloud services to undergird applications, the need to manage application stacks with industry-specific architectures, and the increasing volume and complexity of application performance datasets.

ExtraHop’s APM solution stands out in the crowd by delivering a comprehensive, network-based view of application performance spanning the network, Web, database, and storage tiers, including auxiliary services such as storage, DNS, and directory services, according to the report.

Further, ExtraHop system correlates performance behavior across these components and isolates any problems within this context. It enables IT teams to receive proactive early-warning alerts and correlated, cross-tier visibility that helps them to detect and fix small problems before they turn into disasters.

ExtraHop’s holistic network-based view, deep visibility, and zero-impact deployment is driving innovation in the APM market, according to company officials.

“Recognizing the speed at which IT is changing, we have architected our solution to handle increasing complexity, growing amounts of data, fast-changing applications, and evolving infrastructure environments,” said Jesse Rothstein (News - Alert), ExtraHop co-founder and CEO, in a statement.

“As IT continues to progress, companies will require an APM solution that is equipped to identify, analyze, and locate performance-impacting issues without manual configuration and fragile instrumentation,” Rothstein added.

To meet this demand, next-generation APM solutions need to provide complete, real-time visibility from L2–L7, across tiers, while never interfering with the systems they are monitoring, according to Rothstein. ExtraHop System, Rothstein said, can help companies ensure exceptional application performance.

Earlier in November, ExtraHop announced that Seattle Business Magazine has honored its Application Inspection Triggers technology as its Innovation of the Year.

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