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.
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…