ThousandEyes stories

As more essential services are delivered digitally, availability becomes the most pressing concern, writes Cisco ThousandEyes solutions architect Mike Hicks.

More organisations are reimagining the way that staff connect from remote locations, writes ThousandEyes principal solutions architect Mike Hicks.

By adopting a DevOps approach to their work, IT teams can achieve better optimised applications and consistent, reliable performance for end users.

To optimise the complete service delivery and maintain an excellent digital experience, it’s essential to consider how the APIs perform, writes ThousandEyes principal solutions analyst ANZ Mike Hicks.

In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in what is effectively the largest work-from-home experiment ever conducted in human history. For many organisations, this has brought forward plans they had for digital transformation.

"These new advancements to the ThousandEyes platform will give customers a comprehensive view of the dependencies that make up today's applications, services, and networks."

It’s time to stop confusing performance and latency, writes ThousandEyes principal solutions architect Mike Hicks.

Global internet disruptions increased 63% in March, with internet service providers hit the hardest. This is according to the 2020 Internet Performance Report from ThousandEyes, the internet and cloud intelligence company.

"We saw outages spike to unprecedented levels -- especially among internet service providers who seem to have been more vulnerable to disruptions than cloud providers.”

Security teams already know the value of a layered defence; it’s time to add more layers, writes ThousandEyes principal solutions analyst Mike Hicks.

ThousandEyes is a network intelligence company headquartered in the United States, and operates worldwide. Cisco recently announced plans to acquire ThousandEyes.

Cisco is eyeing up network intelligence company ThousandEyes for its latest acquisition, building on Cisco’s cloud-based network and application performance portfolio.

The cloud intelligence company has added a principal solutions analyst, and two regional sales managers, in Melbourne and Sydney.

Not all organisations have realised the maturity to recognise when the performance claims of public cloud don’t stack up.

"Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been inundated with requests from businesses, industry analysts and other various parties wanting to get a better understanding of global internet health during these trying times."

Your reward for slow load times is a more fleeting interaction with your customer.

Experimentation in the enterprise is being embraced, but how does one work out what difference it makes?

The most significant of these outages took place over the northern hemisphere summer and disrupted nearly every top tech company in some fashion.

More SaaS companies and cloud-based service providers will create private backbone networks to optimise their own network traffic instead of relying on the unpredictable public Internet.

The partnership allows Orange to monitor quality of experience at both the application and network level and speed up troubleshooting in case of Internet-related performance issues.

This increased coverage builds on ThousandEyes’ fleet of Cloud Agents that provide global monitoring vantage points from major cloud providers.

One of the reasons IT ops was ripe for automation is that environments have grown increasingly complex.

It’s not just code that needs refactoring for the move to cloud.

On August 12 2014, the Internet ‘broke’ as Verizon’s introduction of thousands more routes to the web meant the full capacity of the global, fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) routing table was reached.