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 Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and others have…
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…
Moving critical applications and services to the cloud brings unprecedented power to IT teams who no longer have to worry about building and maintaining infrastructure. At the same time, cloud computing introduces a solid dose of unpredictability due to the sheer complexity of the Internet and cloud connectivity. We get…
At ThousandEyes we are building the Endpoint Agent to measure end-user digital experience when accessing networked services from inside or outside the corporate network. The Endpoint Agent is a cross-platform system service, running on macOS and Windows, that conducts network tests and collects performance data from web browser sessions in…
Pretty much everyone in business today knows that websites and related digital channels like mobile apps and service APIs are mission critical. It's also dead obvious that strong web performance is foundational to delivering the seamless digital experiences that produce optimal business outcomes. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist…
At 12:30 PM PDT on May 13th, China Telecom experienced a significant outage that lasted for nearly five hours, with after effects for some hours further. Coming as it did at a moment of heightened tensions with the United States over trade policies, it may be tempting to jump to…