ExtraHop Newsletter

JUNE 2014

Hi!

Over the past decade, IT has seen increasing specialization. But that’s likely to change as SDN and cloud computing hasten the return of the IT generalist. ExtraHop Solutions Architect John Smith makes the case in his post The Return of the Generalist in IT.

This month’s issue also includes a Forbes article on our recent Series C funding.

– The ExtraHop Team

The Return of the Generalist in IT

Specialization was bad for IT because it put people in silos, but new virtualization technologies are encouraging cross-silo thinking and skills, writes John Smith, an ExtraHop Solutions Architect and Citrix Technology Professional.

Read why networking, development, and systems skills are converging.

ExtraHop Raises $41 Million To Define A New IT Monitoring Category

Forbes.com journalist Ben Kepes shares his perspective on ExtraHop's new funding announcement, focusing on our unique combination of distributed monitoring and analytics insights.

Read the Forbes.com article.

Wait, We Have How Many DNS Servers?!

Companies leave money on the table and holes in their security when they forget about servers. ExtraHop makes it easy to identify servers that should be decommissioned and to see what their dependencies are.

Learn more about decommissioning legacy servers the easy way.

Seattle Children's Hospital Speeds Citrix Logins

Wes Wright, CIO, and Tim Holt, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture at Seattle Children’s recently got in front of the camera to share how ExtraHop helped find the “ghost in the machine” in their VDI deployment.

Watch Wes and Tim's video.
Download the case study PDF.

Smile, You’re on Camera: Detecting Advanced Persistent Threats

Once established in your environment, an advanced persistent threat is often impossible to detect with traditional security tools. This series of blog posts from wiredata.net explains how to use the ExtraHop platform to set up a “CCTV for the datacenter.”

Advanced Persistent Surveillance: Re-thinking Lateral Communications
Advanced Persistent Surveillance: Target Breach Analysis

Amazon Enables Hybrid Cloud with Links to VMware vCenter

Virtualization administrators will have an easier time managing their hybrid cloud with new integrations between AWS and VMware vCenter. Admins will be able to launch and manage EC2 instances from within vCenter, and even port server images from VMware to AWS.