A founding notion that led to the creation of ThousandEyes was that organizations would increasingly run their businesses based on digital experiences that rely on the Internet. In the last several years, ThousandEyes has helped the largest enterprises and the fastest growing companies improve the quality of the digital experiences they deliver to their customers and employees by giving them end-to-end visibility…
On September 6th starting at 10:40 am Pacific time, ThousandEyes detected a major disruption of user access to Wikipedia sites from around the world that lasted nine hours. Wikipedia’s German Twitter account shared that the site was “being paralyzed by a massive and very broad DDoS attack,” as translated from…
Monitoring how users interact with your website and baselining critical workflows through synthetic transaction monitoring is not an alien concept. It’s a technique that was developed a long time ago and continues to be a popular choice for application and ITOps/monitoring teams to validate changes and proactively monitor application performance.
At a recent ThousandEyes Connect in New York City, Viacom’s IT infrastructure team shared how they are using ThousandEyes to ensure that consumers have exceptional entertainment experiences, and, that internal employees have unwavering access to critical business services. This blog post is part two of two in a series and…
Viacom is a media conglomerate that creates entertainment experiences to drive conversation and culture. While digital experiences are most commonly associated with consumer-facing applications, the move toward cloud-hosted and Internet-dependent technologies has had a profound impact on internal employees, as well. As employee productivity moves into an IT teams’ direct…
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…