When Internet outages happen, they can be extremely disruptive to your business. By preventing users from reaching your applications and services, outages can cause major revenue and reputation damage. While application delivery is dependent on many Internet Service Providers (ISPs), it also increasingly relies on a large and complex ecosystem of Internet-facing services — such CDN, DNS, DDoS mitigation and public cloud.…
Businesses looking to capitalize on digital transformation efforts are building strategies around cloud environments and cloud services—hoping to improve service connectivity to end users and reduce overhead related to on-premise data centers. For years, IT decision-makers based their cloud computing strategies predominantly on criteria such as web application services offered,…
At its annual gathering of technology leaders and practitioners this week, Microsoft announced a new public performance dashboard for the Azure network, which is powered by ThousandEyes active monitoring. The dashboard serves as a provider-neutral, ongoing benchmark to guide enterprises in their cloud architecture and operations decisions. By providing a…
For organizations with a global presence, gaining visibility into Internet connectivity and performance within China has long been a blindspot, especially with cloud environments. Opaque sovereign controls and notoriously unpredictable Internet access contribute to wide application performance inconsistencies in the region. As organizations continue to invest in multi-cloud ecosystems, their…
In a previous blog, we mapped the steps to success in government digital transformation, detailing ways agencies can modernize online service delivery through distributed network infrastructure and software-defined technology. Many agencies are leveraging technology inside and outside of their firewalls and across a variety of systems and networks. The result…
![[Update] PG&E Web Servers Go Dark Amid Looming Power Shutdown](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Featured-Image-PGE-Web-Servers-Go-Dark-Amid-Looming-Power-Shutdown.jpg "[Update] PG&E Web Servers Go Dark Amid Looming Power Shutdown")
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, utility company PG&E announced that it will shut off power to some 800,000 customers in Northern and Central California in an effort to prevent wildfires in certain parts of the state. It directed California residents to visit its website to see how the planned power…