Latest Update Enables Companies to Monitor Application Performance Even as Encryption Workload Grows

Seattle, WA -- (SBWIRE) --06/07/2011 -- ExtraHop Networks, a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced support for decryption and analysis of 2048-bit secure sockets layer (SSL)-encrypted application data. The new functionality eliminates the growing blind spot in organizations' security and application monitoring capabilities caused by the increased use of SSL encryption. Insight into this encrypted data is particularly important as the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently advised that SSL certificates use 2048-bit RSA keys. However, few APM solutions are scalable and powerful enough to perform real-time SSL decryption without degrading overall network performance. With the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system's hardware-driven 10Gbps analysis capabilities, organizations have the processing power necessary to decrypt and analyze SSL traffic for common cipher suites at the scale and speed required by today's enterprise networks.

More encrypted data and stronger encryption keys make software-driven SSL decryption increasingly untenable due to the significant drain in processing resources they require. In fact, according to the seventh edition of Palo Alto Networks' Application Usage and Risk Report, more than 40 percent of businesses' applications now are encrypted by SSL, making the transaction data for a substantial portion of applications invisible to network and application performance monitoring tools. Traditional software-driven SSL decryption cannot keep up with this growing workload. The ExtraHop system is different, using advances in hardware to decrypt and analyze SSL-protected data at speeds of up to 10Gbps.

With this latest update, the ExtraHop system supports real-time decryption and analysis of SSL traffic, including SSLv3; TLSI 1.0; SSLv2 handshakes; RSA key exchanges; and RC4, AES, and 3DES symmetric ciphers. The system also supports SSL envelope analysis to determine which SSL certificates are being used, making it easy for organizations to determine if their SSL certificates are up to date according to the latest NIST recommendations. Private certificate keys used to decipher the SSL traffic are kept safe using internal encryption to ensure that the key is not transferred to other systems on an organization's network.

"If organizations can't see their network traffic data, they can't monitor the health of their applications. And with increased use of SSL encryption, gaining visibility into the data needed to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail is harder than ever," said Jesse Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks. "With this latest functionality, organizations can continue to use passive monitoring solutions in the most secure environments. Maintaining visibility into application transaction data is crucial for organizations wanting to keep their complex enterprise networks and application environments running smoothly."

The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is a real-time, passive network appliance that monitors and analyzes every business-critical transaction from L2 to L7 across network, web, database, and storage tiers, spanning physical and virtual environments. The ExtraHop system combines the troubleshooting capabilities of Network Performance Managers with the superior application-level visibility of User Experience Monitors to perform sophisticated network-traffic analysis. While many tools rely on legacy technologies such as NetFlow collection, SNMP polling, custom performance agents, or active service checks, the ExtraHop system performs full-stream reassembly and full-content analysis to extract and archive valuable performance and health metrics in a real-time datastore.

For more information about the capabilities of the ExtraHop system, visit http://www.extrahop.com/products/.

About ExtraHop Networks
ExtraHop Networks is a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions. The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system performs the fastest and deepest analysis in the industry, achieving real-time transaction monitoring at speeds up to 10Gbps in a single appliance and application-level visibility with no agents, configuration, or overhead. The ExtraHop system quickly auto-discovers and auto-classifies applications and devices, delivering immediate value out of the box. ExtraHop Networks provides award-winning solutions to companies across a wide range of industries, including ecommerce, communications, and financial services. The privately held company was founded in 2007 by Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, engineering veterans from F5 Networks and architects of the BIG-IP v9 product. Follow us on Twitter @ExtraHop. For more information, visit http://www.extrahop.com.

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ExtraHop Networks
206-453-2290
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March Communications
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Industry Leaders Integrate the Best of Device-Based Monitoring with Real-Time Traffic Monitoring to Deliver End-to-End Application Performance Management for Business- and Cloud-Based Applications

Seattle, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/04/2011 -- SevOne, the new leader in network performance management, and ExtraHop Networks, a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced a partnership 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 the most scalable and comprehensive solution for ensuring enterprise-wide performance and reliability of mission-critical business applications.

"Appliance-based offerings can provide the most effective solution for end-to-end monitoring. Since they are, however, typically limited in functional scope to either the network or the application layer, an architecture based on combining two best of breed appliances would be very attractive," said Will Cappelli, research vice president at Gartner, Inc.

ExtraHop's Application Delivery Assurance system is the industry's first completely passive network appliance that provides application-level visibility with no agents, configuration, or overhead. SevOne's network performance management solution monitors millions of IT device elements and flows to keep increasingly complex networks, servers, and application infrastructure functioning at peak performance levels.

Through this partnership, SevOne and ExtraHop are delivering the industry's fastest, easiest-to-deploy, and most-scalable solution for ensuring end-to-end application performance and user response time. Joint customers will experience many of the following benefits:

• Enterprise-wide consolidated view of application and network performance
• Real-time analysis with proactive alerting and troubleshooting
• Ease of deployment, fast time to results, small solution footprint, and lower cost of ownership
• Rapid return on investment without the months of hassle of traditional APM deployments

"Until now, businesses seeking an application- and network-performance management solution have had to consider the downside of legacy and incumbent technology," said Jesse Rothstein, ExtraHop CEO and co-founder. "These tools rarely scale to modern IT environments, are difficult to deploy and maintain, and can perturb the very systems they are monitoring. The integration of best-of-breed products from ExtraHop and SevOne provides businesses with a compelling alternative to legacy management suites that are lagging further and further behind."

"SevOne is committed to providing a comprehensive application-aware network performance management solution including application-level visibility and end-user response time," said Mike Phelan, President and CEO of SevOne. "Partnering with an industry leader like ExtraHop enables us to deliver on this commitment, and we're enthusiastic about the new opportunities this relationship brings to the market."

About ExtraHop Networks
ExtraHop Networks is a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions. The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system performs the fastest and deepest analysis in the industry, providing application-level visibility with no agents, configuration, or overhead and real-time transaction monitoring at speeds up to 10G in a single appliance. The ExtraHop system quickly auto-discovers and auto-classifies applications and devices, delivering immediate value out of the box. ExtraHop Networks provides award-winning solutions to companies across a wide range of industries, including ecommerce, communications, and financial services. The privately held company was founded in early 2007 by Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, engineering veterans from F5 Networks and architects of the BIG-IP v9 product. Follow us on Twitter @ExtraHop. For more information, visit http://www.extrahop.com.

About SevOne
SevOne, Inc. provides a network performance management solution that enables enterprises, cloud and service providers, and government organizations to keep increasingly complex networks, servers, and applications functioning at peak performance levels.

SevOne delivers the industry's fastest, most scalable, and comprehensive real-time monitoring, troubleshooting and performance reporting solution to ensure application performance and reliability. Capable of monitoring millions of IT elements and flows, the SevOne solution provides IT Operations teams with the most-accurate and timely data available to ensure enterprise-wide performance and reliability for business applications. Visit us at http://www.sevone.com.

SevOne Contacts
Gina Karr
SevOne, Inc.
gkarr@sevone.com
302-319-5403

Media Relations Contact
Steph Johnson / Amy Redhead
Aspectus PR
sevone@aspectuspr.com
646-274-1348 / +44 (0) 207 182 4081

ExtraHop Contacts
Justin Baker
ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
206-453-2290
pr@extrahop.com

Meredith L. Eaton / Nate Hubbell
March Communications
617-960-9877 / 617-960-9857
extrahop@marchpr.com

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