Technology
IT Awards: Innovation of the Year, Small Company
By Gianni Truzzi October 10, 2011
This article originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of Seattle magazine.
ExtraHop Networks, Seattle
Employees in Washington: 30+
When two engineers from F5 Networks, Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, founded their own company in 2007, they understood how costly outages and problems could be to business-critical networks, with some estimates of downtime reaching more than $10,000 per hour. For the growing number of companies offering cloud-based services, reliability can mean survival or death.
ExtraHops solution, the Application Delivery Assurance system, is a scalable, passive appliance that monitors network transactions in real time to perform sophisticated network analysis. Cofounder and CEO Rothstein has described it as Google Earth for your network. The company has found ample success with customers that include Microsoft, Pixar and Alaska Airlines.
ExtraHops Application Inspection Triggers technology, introduced in the latest version, got our judging panels attention. This scriptable event-processing system allows IT managers to use the full power of network monitoring at the application-protocol level, even for the most heavily customized systems. If, as Rothstein suggests, ExtraHop makes the map of your network, then Triggers can help find where to goand how to get there smoothly.