EMA Report Validates ExtraHop's Dominance in Network Performance Management

ExtraHop Networks, a provider of network-based application performance management (APM (News - Alert)) solutions, announced the availability of a new report that discusses the need for APM solutions that “bridge organizational boundaries and provide comprehensive understanding of application performance.”

The research, titled “ExtraHop Networks (News - Alert) Offers New Application Performance Option with NAPM Approach” and conducted by analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA (News - Alert)), finds that IT teams are constantly looking for ways to align their operations with business needs.

As applications become increasingly complex and fluid in nature, offering a comprehensive view of application performance becomes all the more important. The report from EMA emphasizes this point and delves into a comparison of legacy approaches to optimizing application performance and the network-based APM approach used by ExtraHop.

“It’s a race that they will never stop running,” said author and EMA Managing Research Director Jim Frey. “When it comes to application performance management and monitoring, this means that their management tools, technologies, and practices must be selected, deployed, and applied in the context of application and service transactions.”

According to Frey, ExtraHop helps them achieve those tasks with a simple and elegant approach. While legacy solutions, including network performance management (NPM) and “application-aware” NPM solutions, use active and synthetic test agents, network device flow records, and packet inspection probe appliances, the ExtraHop solution offers agentless, real-time application transaction analysis at Layer 7 in addition to network and device details from Layer 2 to Layer 4, the report said.

ExtraHop’s approach provides additional visibility missing in so-called “application-aware” NPM tools. It is simpler to deploy and maintain than APM tools that require host-based agents, the report said. Another advantage of ExtraHop’s solution is its ability to effectively bridge the gap between Application and Network teams, providing visibility across the network, Web, database, and storage tiers of the application infrastructure.

Jesse Rothstein (News - Alert), CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, said, “With the ExtraHop system, we provide an integrated view of application performance that helps IT organizations contribute significant business value and improve customer satisfaction. This report from EMA validates our leadership in the APM market by detailing the substantial innovation we’ve achieved in performance visibility from both a network and application perspective.”

Earlier this year, SevOne, a provider of network performance management solutions, formed a partnership with ExtraHop Networks to bring best-of-breed performance monitoring solutions to the market. The partnership combines NetFlow- and device-based monitoring with real-time application transaction analysis to provide a highly scalable and comprehensive solution for ensuring enterprise-wide performance and reliability of mission-critical business applications, according to company officials.

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