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.
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.
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…
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…