SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Dec 20, 2016) - ExtraHop, the first and only provider of streaming analytics that transforms network data into actionable insight, today announced its expansion to South Korea. This marks the third major Asia Pacific (APAC) market in which ExtraHop has established a significant presence over the past 12 months, with offices in ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand.
According to a recent report from Forbes Insights, respondents in the APAC region (55 percent) expect their organizations to undergo vast digital transformation in the next two years, which is six percent higher than the global average of 49 percent. In fact, digital transformation was considered as the top strategic priority by respondents in the region (60 percent), with a focus on investing in new technologies to enable digitalization over the next two years (65 percent) as well as increasing their companies' data and analytics capabilities (65 percent).
ExtraHop is at the forefront of delivering this digital transformation, providing streaming analytics that turn network data into the richest source of insight. The company's most recent release introduced the industry's first top-down workflow, enabling IT teams to go from real-time performance metrics for application, security, network, and business services to associated packets in five clicks or less.
ExtraHop has experienced tremendous customer demand from organizations all over the globe, allowing the company to expand its streaming analytics and advanced monitoring capabilities to international markets including EMEA and APAC. Growth has been particularly strong in APAC, where deepening relationships with channel and technology partners and industry recognition as the winner of the 2016 HIMSS AsiaPac Innovations Challenge have set the stage for a robust 2017. Customers in the region now include TutorABC, Singapore Land Authority, and major enterprise accounts in Australia.
"With its robust economy and strong technology market, South Korea is a natural next step for our company's rapid expansion in APAC. Organizations here are outpacing their global counterparts when it comes adopting next-generation technologies and methodologies like cloud, virtualization, and SDN," said Danny Smolders, Vice President of APAC Sales at ExtraHop. "ExtraHop enables our customers and their digital transformation initiatives to flourish, providing the situational awareness required to successfully integrate new architectures and practices while supporting a seamless digital experience for the organization and its customers."
The ExtraHop platform is used by some of the largest and most technologically advanced organizations in the world, including Sony Network Entertainment International, Toshiba, Adobe, and Microsoft.
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ExtraHop makes real-time data-driven IT operations possible. By harnessing the power of wire data in real time, network, application, security, and business teams make faster, more accurate decisions that optimize performance and minimize risk. Hundreds of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies such as Sony, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Adobe, and Google, start with ExtraHop to discover, observe, analyze, and intelligently act on all data in flight on-premises or in the cloud. To experience the power of ExtraHop, explore our interactive online demo. Connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.