ExtraHop goes one hop further taking wire data into Open Data Stream | Bloor

"ExtraHop Networks is expanding the scope of its software to help businesses to exploit the value of the data it collects—for instance by big data applications and specific lines of business (LOBs). Last week’s announcement of Open Data Stream for MongoDB (a leading open source NoSQL database) and Open Data Stream for Elasticsearch (a powerful search, analytics and data visualisation suite used in many big data environments) augments its already-available Open Data Stream (ODS) solutions for Splunk and VMware Log Insight for no extra cost. For the uninitiated, what ExtraHop appliances uniquely do is conceptually simple but complex to achieve: tap all data as it traverses the wire in real-time, re-assembling the packets for every protocol to produce meaningful network analytics for every level from 2 to 7 in the ISO stack—at up to 20Gb/s. It is non-invasive as it uses no agents and does not degrade performance. ExtraHop also provides some 2,500 metrics out of the box for IT operational analytics (ITOA) for wide use in complex enterprise network troubleshooting to help pinpoint hardware or application problems. The unique ability to turn raw data from the wire into structured data already means that it can be visualised, measured and used to show trends, reveal network infrastructure and application performance, and security issues and trigger alerts ..."