The adoption of cloud-based audio and video conferencing has been on the rise over the past few years. Positioned as a market leader by Gartner in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions, Cisco Webex is the goto conferencing service for enterprises globally. Cisco Webex solutions are delivered as a service over the Internet, a best effort network that has no performance guarantees.… Read More »
We are back with our first quarterly update in 2018. It has been a busy quarter at ThousandEyes with our engineering team churning new features every two weeks. So without wasting any more time, let’s recap some of our recent feature announcements and review what’s new in the six releases from January to March 2018.… Read More »
Shoelaces is a tool that provides the glue for the unmanned bootstrapping of a server using a lightweight mechanism. That means you can boot a remote server either manually or automatically without local assistance. Here at ThousandEyes, we have been using Shoelaces for almost two years now as a key component of our infrastructure management environment.… Read More »
SD-WANs are a significant development in wide area networking, and the first SDN technology to gain widespread deployment. Yet, their usefulness is being muddled by over-hyped expectations that they can provide all-seeing and all-controlling power over every aspect of enterprise IT communications. … Read More »
With the rise of e-commerce and well-publicized troubles among so many traditional players in the retail landscape, it is sometimes tempting for technophiles to think that in-store retail is a vanishing species. However, the facts and recent developments belie that outlook. E-commerce was only 9.1% of U.S., retail sales in 2017, and is projected to grow to 12.4% by 2020.… Read More »
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have become the architectural cornerstone of network design for enterprises looking to deliver fast and highly available digital experience to their customers. When you rely on a third-party service, like a CDN, to deliver business critical services, it is crucial to continuously monitor their performance and SLA commitments. Because when any one of the cogs in your well oiled digital experience machine fails, your business fails.… Read More »
Salesforce is a mature SaaS application, yet many organizations are still plagued with network and application performance issues due to the unpredictability of the Internet and the complexity of the Salesforce platform. Salesforce, unlike other SaaS applications, such as Office 365, is not an “out-of-the-box” application. It’s typically customized by developers to suit the needs of the enterprise, and often leverages third-party applications for business functions such as Marketing, Sales and Customer Support.… Read More »
How does one steal crypto-coins? By hacking DNS and BGP – the two cornerstone protocols governing the Internet. With any cryptographic system, one way to compromise it is to be a man in the middle (MITM) when a transaction is taking place. Both ends of the transaction believe they’re talking to a legitimate party at the other end, but in reality, a malicious actor sits in the middle and alters the information being passed through to their advantage. In case of cryptocurrency, it could be the public key of the transfer recipient. … Read More »
As of January of 2018, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has mandated the nine largest UK Banks—Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Danske Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, RBS Group, and Santander—to open up their data to third parties using a standard format. The mandate, known as Open Banking, requires that API endpoints be accessible to authorized payment and solution providers.… Read More »
When SIDN, one of the world’s largest top-level domain managers, decided to migrate one of their authoritative name servers from Unicast to Anycast to improve performance, they selected ThousandEyes as their network monitoring and intelligence partner. ThousandEyes was able to provide SIDN with the data they needed to understand latency and traffic routes from many different vantage points, so they could identify issues and improve performance — ensuring a successful migration.… Read More »