Organizations looking to drive faster time to market, increase agility and deliver a superior user experience for both customers and employees are quickly adopting “Cloud First” strategies. While most enterprises began their cloud journey with a single infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, several compelling offerings from the likes of Alibaba Cloud, Amazon…
If you’ve spent most of your time dealing with enterprise or carrier networks, one of the things that is surprising is the sheer unpredictability of the Internet. Yesterday from 10:50am to 11:30am BST and from 1:10pm to 2:13pm BST, ThousandEyes detected service disruption to WhatsApp for a limited set of…
Most enterprises are in some way or the other on a cloud and digital transformation journey. The challenges that come with these highly visible and cost-intensive priority projects are numerous, from picking the right technology stack, to cloud architecture to service orchestration and network automation. However, an often overlooked aspect…
In a previous blog post, we covered the reasons why we embarked on releasing a Public Cloud Performance Benchmark Report, the breadth and depth of data gathered, and how the report can help IT leaders and architects to make data-driven decisions. In this post, we’re going to explore a couple…
Yesterday, at re:Invent 2018, Amazon made a plethora of announcements ranging from a new base-station as a service (AWS Ground Station) to introducing re:Inforce, a new security conference. But one announcement stood out in particular—the unveiling of AWS Global Accelerator—their plan to allow AWS customers to ride their private backbone……