ExtraHop Networks

ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
Private
Industry IT Operations Management
Founded 2007
Founder Jesse Rothstein
Raja Mukerji
Headquarters Seattle, WA
Slogan See IT run.
Website extrahop.com

ExtraHop Networks, Inc. is an enterprise technology real-time wire data and IT operations analytics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, US. ExtraHop sells network appliances that perform real-time analysis of wire data for performance troubleshooting, security detection, optimization and tuning, and business analytics.

History

Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji founded ExtraHop in 2007. The co-founders were formerly senior engineers at F5 Networks and architects of the BIG-IP v9 product.

ExtraHop Networks has raised $6.6 million in funding from the Madrona Venture Group and other private investors including Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, and Ben Horowitz, former CEO of Opsware.[1] In May 2011, ExtraHop raised another $14 million in Series B financing in an oversubscribed round led by Meritech Capital Partners.[2]

In May 2014, the company closed a $41 million Series C round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). Other participants in this round included existing investors Meritech Capital Partners and Madrona Venture Group, as well as private investors including Sujal Patel, former CEO and founder of Isilon Systems. This round brought ExtraHop’s total venture funding to $61.6 million.[3]

In December 2014, the company appointed John Matthews as Chief Informational Officer.[4]

Products

ExtraHop is headquartered on the 17th floor of 520 Pike Tower in downtown Seattle

The ExtraHop platform is a passive network appliance that uses a network tap or port mirroring to receive network traffic, and then performs real-time full-stream reassembly to extract application-level protocol metrics and other custom-specified information contained in the transaction payload.[5] IT operations teams use this data to monitor the performance of the applications running on the network and detect anomalous behavior that could indicate a data breach, for example.[6] The ExtraHop appliance can be deployed on-premises or in public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Product modules include HTTP and HTTPS; common database protocols; directory protocols like LDAP, RADIUS, and Diameter; industry-specific protocols like Financial Information eXchange and SMPP; and storage protocols like CIFS, iSCSI, and Network File System.[7]

ExtraHop offers physical and virtual platforms. The EDA1000v, EDA2000v, and EDA6100v virtual appliances are rated for networks up to 10 Gbit/s throughput. The EDA6100 is a 1U appliance capable of handling up to 10 Gbit/s of throughput, and the EDA9100 is a 2U appliance capable of handling 40 Gbit/s throughput. According to the company, the EDA9100 is able to analyze 1.3 million transactions per second.[8]

In November 2015, ExtraHop launched the 5th generation of its data analysis platform, ExtraHop 5.0. It works with the ExtraHop Explore application to deliver search and multi-dimensional analysis of wire data. ExtraHop 5.0 has a new user interface, allowing all users to access IT data.[9]

Wire Data Analytics

Wire data is all of the L2-L7 communication that happens on a network. This communication is in the form of unstructured packets. With a real-time stream processor, a platform (such as ExtraHop) can take these unstructured packets and turn them into structured wire data.

Due to every transaction happening and being able to be seen as wire data, analyzing this information can provide insight into every single event that happens on a network. You are able to see performance by tier and troubleshoot precisely by what the issue is.

Wire data analytics allows a holistic view of every transaction that happens on a network and be able to see that information in a structured way.

IT Operations Analytics

Seeing a holistic view of your network (with every transaction that happens being shown as structured wire data) and applying Big Data principles is the practice of IT Operations Analytics (ITOA).

ITOA encompasses four sets of data:

An ITOA platform allows the aggregation of this data. Wire data analytics allows this data to be visualized, which in turn helps teams find weaknesses or problems in real-time.

Recognition

ExtraHop won the 2013 Best of Interop Award for Cloud Computing and Virtualization based on its monitoring product for AWS.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Marc Andreessen, Madrona back ExtraHop Networks with $5 mil.".
  2. ↑ "ExtraHop Networks scores $14 million in ‘oversubscribed’ round".
  3. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/29/extrahop-raises-41m-series-c-round-for-its-real-time-it-analytics-service/
  4. ↑ Frank, Blair. "Tech Moves: ExtraHop recruits F5 exec as CIO, Move gets new CEO, and more". GeekWire. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "How the ExtraHop Appliance Works".
  6. ↑ "ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence". NetworkWorld.com. 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
  7. ↑ "ExtraHop Modules".
  8. ↑ "ExtraHop Platforms".
  9. ↑ Barker, Ian. "ExtraHop brings the power of search to network data". Betanews.com. Beta News. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "Best of Interop 2013 Winners Announced - Network Computing".

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