Last week, along with summer solstice, we celebrated ThousandEyes Hackday: an internal event that brings cross-functional teams together to build something creative, while keeping it fun and exciting. In true ThousandEyes style, the event was innovative, witty and packed with high energy. The talent and dedication showcased by the different…
The adoption of cloud-based audio and video conferencing has been on the rise over the past few years. Positioned as a market leader by Gartner in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions, Cisco Webex is the goto conferencing service for enterprises globally. Cisco Webex solutions are delivered as a…
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have become the architectural cornerstone of network design for enterprises looking to deliver fast and highly available digital experience to their customers. When you rely on a third-party service, like a CDN, to deliver business critical services, it is crucial to continuously monitor their performance and…
On Friday, March 2nd, 2018, a power outage hit the AWS-East Region (Ashburn), affecting hundreds of critical enterprise services like Atlassian, Slack and Twilio. Significant corporate websites and Amazon’s own service offerings were impacted as well. ThousandEyes operates a global set of software agents performing Internet-aware network monitoring. We were…
On Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 at 9:15am Pacific Standard Time, GitHub, the popular web-based hosting service for software development, was a victim of a powerful DDoS attack that impacted its global user base of 20M. It was one of the largest DDoS attacks, with attack traffic peaking at 1.3Tbps. Concerned…