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…
Enterprise networks are rapidly transforming, disrupting classic network boundaries and giving way to WAN architectures that are hybrid in nature. With SaaS applications mainstreaming, cloud migrations inflight and SD-WAN deployments on the rise, the enterprise branch is becoming intelligent now more than ever. The benefits of these new trends are…
On January 24th, 2018 ThousandEyes took center stage at Networking Field Day 17 (NFD17). ThousandEyes is no stranger to NFD and as before, we had a great session filled with in-depth conversations and geeky humor. For those of you less familiar with NFD, it is a multi-day event organized as…
This October, we took ThousandEyes Connect to Chicago for the first time and were thrilled to host customer speakers from United Airlines and JLL. In this post, we will summarize the presentation by Brandon Mangold, Principal Operations Engineer at United Airlines. In his talk at ThousandEyes Connect, Brandon walked through…