CIOs and IT executives are constantly challenged with reducing IT spend, optimizing operating expenditures while increasing service agility, delivering and maintaining superior quality of service. Enterprises are constantly searching for innovative solutions to execute on these business objectives.… Read More »
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a cornerstone of the Internet. It is a globally distributed database with a hierarchical structure that maps domain names to IP addresses. While DNS has recently been in the spotlight due to large scale DDoS attacks, its lesser known brother DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) has remained in the dark.… Read More »
If you’ve ever had to connect to a corporate network while working remotely, chances are you are familiar with the concept of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). VPNs establish a secure connection from your device to any other part of the network by wrapping an additional layer of security and privacy to your online activity. VPNs are an indispensable part of… Read More »
This week we released a redesign of Instant Tests, the feature that allows you to quickly validate test settings and configuration. Instant Tests provide results from a single iteration of an application or network layer test and serve as a preview platform for troubleshooting and error detection.… Read More »
In this post from ThousandEyes Connect San Francisco, we’ll discuss the presentation by Geoff Wade, Senior Network Engineer at ServiceNow on monitoring performance of their globally distributed data centers.… Read More »
As we sip on warm holiday beverages and gradually wind down the year, it’s rather customary to reflect on the past and contemplate the future. Following traditions, we took a stroll down memory lane analyzing the state of the Internet and the “cloud”. In today’s blog post we discuss some of the most impactful outages of 2016, understand common trends and evaluate some of the key learnings.… Read More »
We recently wrapped up the fall edition of ThousandEyes Connect San Francisco. Keeping up with tradition, we had some excellent speakers who shared some interesting stories about how they monitor their business critical infrastructure. As our first guest speaker we were thrilled to have Jim Morrison from Quantcast, a digital advertizing company focussing on audience measurement and real-time advertising.… Read More »
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a popular topic of discussion in the past few months. We have seen a flurry of prominent DDoS attacks, such as the attacks on DNS root servers and the Dyn DNS outage, with widespread impact and the potential to disrupt communications worldwide.… Read More »
On August 12th, 2016 ThousandEyes dazzled the geek squad at Networking Field Day 12 in Santa Clara, California. ThousandEyes was one of the nine companies presenting at the three day event to a curated group of well known network industry experts and thought leaders including Ethan Banks of Packet Pushers, Justin Cohen and Brandon Mangold. Check out the delegates’ reaction to ThousandEyes and NFD12.… Read More »
Yesterday we launched a brand new product and our newest innovation, the Endpoint Agent. Extending the periphery of network intelligence all the way to the end user, the Endpoint Agent provides real user perspective on critical applications and the impact of the underlying network on application performance.… Read More »