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 teams was truly inspiring. … Read More »
The delivery of every website and web application relies on a set of dependencies that include Internet providers, DNS and, increasingly, CDNs and other 3rd party services. Failure or degraded performance of any of these services can dramatically impact application delivery. Proactive, continuous monitoring of network and service dependencies is critical to ensuring users of a website or Internet-facing application have a high-quality digital experience.… Read More »
We had a great week recently at Cisco Live Barcelona speaking to a wide variety of IT organizations from Dublin to Qatar (and Moscow to Kenya) about what they see in their networks and what challenges they have around network monitoring as more of their IT assets move into the cloud. Here are some takeaways from dozens of conversations I observed and participated in over the week.… Read More »
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 a part of Tech Field Day by Gestalt IT, that brings together product vendors and independent IT leaders.… Read More »
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 the United Airlines and ThousandEyes journey while highlighting the importance of correlating visibility across multiple networks and applications to manage a global network. … Read More »
In this update from ThousandEyes Connect in Chicago, we’ll summarize the presentation made by Jim McKinstry, Global Project Manager at JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle). McKinstry explained how ThousandEyes helps his team to maintain the performance of business critical applications that are at the heart of their worldwide $6B real-estate management and professional services business.… Read More »
Donavan Fritz, Sr. Network Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix, discusses how his team is building a system to manage and quickly identify IP addresses in AWS. During his talk, Donavan described how his team tracks IP addresses within the AWS cloud — specifically, how they built a system to quickly figure out where a given IP address is allocated at a given time. … Read More »
In this update from ThousandEyes Connect Santa Clara, we’ll summarize the presentation by Viet Nguyen, Senior Manager of Problem and Change Management and formerly Senior Manager of Network Engineering/Security/Operations at PayPal. During his talk, Viet described how his team keeps their many service providers accountable by collecting and sharing objective data. He also discussed how he and his team operationalizes the use of ThousandEyes within PayPal. … Read More »
Our most recent ThousandEyes Connect in Santa Clara had a star-studded lineup of customer speakers from PayPal, Intuit and Netflix. In this post we summarize the presentation from Daniel Shanahan, Staff Network Performance Engineer at Intuit. Daniel is a 15-year veteran in network operations and an expert on network protocol analysis and application performance who is responsible for the performance analytics of infrastructure for the TurboTax platform.… Read More »
ThousandEyes recently announced our achievement of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification for the Information Security Management System (ISMS) supporting our network performance management software-as-a-service application. Historically, Europe and East Asia have been the leaders in terms of the number of certifications issued, but in recent years, North America has had an increasing share of the world’s certifications.… Read More »