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1.26.16
TCP RTOs: Retransmission Timeouts & Application Performance Degradation
Learn about RTOs, what causes TCP retransmission timeouts, and how to eliminate them quickly to improve application performance.
Justin Baker
6.25.13
Tap the Wire Data Inside Your Cisco UCS Environment for IT Operational Intelligence
ExtraHop takes a better approach to monitoring performance in UCS environments, equipping IT teams to confidently migrate business-critical applications to UCS.
Justin Baker
2.19.13
How to Answer the SharePoint Monitoring Questions You Care About
Learn how to get answers quickly for SharePoint questions that teams can spend days trying to tease out with legacy monitoring tools with real time SharePoint tools from ExtraHop.
Justin Baker
1.23.13
Storage Performance Monitoring: 3 Metrics Needed for Holistic Visibility
These three real-world examples demonstrate the value of of CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI transaction metrics in the context of other application and infrastructure performance.
Justin Baker
9.17.12
Why ExtraHop + Splunk Integration Matters
Enhance security and network performance monitoring with Splunk and ExtraHop integration. Real-time insights for NDR and NPM solutions.
Justin Baker
9.12.12
Microsoft's 1024-Bit RSA Key-Size Requirement and Other IT Burdens
Learn how ExtraHop tracks the usage of all SSL certificates used in your environment in just a few clicks to get ready for Microsoft's release an update blocking the use of RSA keys using less than 1024-bit encryption.
Justin Baker
8.9.12
TCP: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 1
While we at ExtraHop love the higher-order application protocols like HTTP, the SQL family, and memcache, we are fascinated by TCP. Obsessed, even.
Justin Baker
11.30.11
Performance Metric of the Month: Packet Loss, Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) and Round-Trip Times in Virtualized Systems
The ExtraHop system detects virtual packet loss, a hard-to-detect phenomenon that can degrade application performance in virtual environments.
Justin Baker
10.25.11
Applying Lean Methodology to Application Performance Management
Lean APM: The ExtraHop system provides the mapping and measuring capabilities needed to continuously improve application performance using lean methodology.
Justin Baker
10.17.11
RIM BlackBerry Outage Preventable with ExtraHop Database Performance Monitoring
RIM could have avoided the massive RIM BlackBerry outage with passive continuous database performance monitoring. Find out how to prevent service outages.
Justin Baker
9.29.11
Performance Metric of the Month: CIFS Errors
Find CIFS errors in networked storage in real-time with ExtraHop. Use our system equally well on other storage networking protocols such as NFS and iSCSI.
Justin Baker
9.27.11
Oracle Database Performance Monitoring with ExtraHop: An Attractive Alternative to Agents and Profilers
Monitor Oracle databases without agents, without profilers. ExtraHop's network-based database performance management requires no host-based instrumentation.
Justin Baker
7.12.11
PAWS Dropped SYNs - How to Speed Up Your TCP Protocol & PAWS Network
Are PAWS Dropped SYNs slowing you down? Dive into TCP protocol intricacies to find actionable solutions and fixes for faster and smoother network performance.
Justin Baker
3.7.11
Understanding Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) and Application Performance
Discover the causes of TCP retransmissions and optimize network performance with Reveal(x). Eliminate RTOs for a seamless experience.
Justin Baker
9.16.10
ExtraHop in the U.K.
Justin Baker
8.18.10
SLA Monitoring: Using Internal SLA's to Improve Application Performance
Justin Baker
2.25.09
To Nagle or Not to Nagle, That is the Question
Justin Baker
2.20.09
The Curious Case of Packet Sniffers
Justin Baker