On April 9th, 2018 three (billion) traffic flows, Heather, Mike and Josh, set out to supply the German Internet with content. They traveled to the Interxion FRA5 data center to a rendezvous with the DE-CIX switch, aka “The Blair Switch.” They were never seen again. What happened was only a…
One of the major themes we’ve observed in enterprise migration to the cloud is that visibility or lack thereof becomes a major pain point because of all the ways that the cloud creates external, Internet-centric dependencies that are out of IT’s control. When you don’t have control, you really need…
To say that digital transformation is essential to the retail industry and holiday retail sales is to state the obvious. Whether you’re a pure-play e-commerce operation or executing on an omni-channel retail strategy, the richness and responsiveness of digital experience is an existential matter. One of the lessons of the…
On June 1st, 2018, Philips debuted a new service for its Hue smart-home lighting product, but things quickly went dark when the cloud-based API endpoint with which remote apps and services communicate went down for four hours. As The Register put it in its snarkily titled article, Smart bulbs turn…
At ThousandEyes, we have many web enterprise and other digital business customers but have also seen a rapid uptake of our technologies by mid and large sized enterprises, with over fifty of the Fortune 500 and 9+ of the Global 2000 as customers now.