ExtraHop Extends Wire Analytics to AWS

ExtraHop has a built its business on providing wire data analytics solutions for IT operational intelligence, and the company has launched a version of its offering on Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS). ExtraHop for AWS was designed to provide persistent, real-time visibility into AWS applications so enterprises can optimize them.

Chris Blessington, senior director of marketing at ExtraHop, hinted that this is only the first of multiple announcements regarding ExtraHop availability on public cloud services. The ExtraHop solutions traditionally have been focused on on-premise apps, but with more enterprises shifting their workloads and apps into the cloud, Blessington said there was a need for wire data analytics for the public cloud.

“What we’re doing is going to help ease the transition into the cloud for a number of enterprises that otherwise might be more hesitant,” Blessington said.

According to Blessington, a significant number of Fortune 500 companies embraced the cloud, but it’s not a “tidal wave” of adoption yet. Part of the reason is pre- and post-migration challenges, including the lack of effective monitoring of every aspect of the cloud environment. Without that, enterprises are a little slow to adopt public cloud services, in particular.

ExtraHop for AWS is meant to correct that oversight and provide those large, multinational companies with the visibility they require to use the cloud just as they use their data centers and on-premise IT architectures.

For channel partners that focus on providing solutions for Fortune 500 companies, the launch of ExtraHop for AWS will provide a new opportunity, and Blessington hopes the new offering will make it easier for the company and its partners to accelerate adoption of AWS.

ExtraHop does 80 percent of its business through the channel.

“This is an awesome channel play. There are a large and growing set of technology partners who are focused exclusively on helping enterprises … in terms of holding that enterprise customer’s hands as they make that transition into the cloud,” Blessington said.