Today we announced a growth investment round of $50 million led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from one new investor, Thomvest Ventures, plus all of our existing investors. More than three years after our last investment of $35 million with phenomenal market adoption and still more than half of the investment untouched, why would we raise another round? To take…
On November 12th, 2018, between 1:00 PM and 2:23 PM PST, ThousandEyes noticed issues connecting to G Suite, a critical application for our organization. Reviewing ThousandEyes Endpoint Agent stats, we noticed this was impacting all users at the ThousandEyes office. The outage not only affected G Suite, but also Google…
Public cloud providers are everywhere, literally. In fact, it’s not an exaggeration to say that in echoes of the “Great Game” of olde, the big three cloud providers—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud (GCP) are in a great race for cloud dominance. Analyst research firms predict that…
The silence is deafening. You run from device to device, trying desperately to reach someone — anyone. No matter how hard you try, you can’t connect to the applications you need. You can’t even file a complaint. They’re simply not there. They’ve...disappeared. You suddenly remember that your McSocial app will…
Hannibal LANter: I will listen now. You were ten years into your network engineering career. You went to work with colleagues on an app and microservices ranch in Montana. And...? Clarice Engineerling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away. Hannibal LANter: No "just", Clarice.…
I spent a few days recently at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2018 in Orlando. During that time, my colleagues and I had the chance to talk to hundreds of CIOs and senior IT executives. I also had a fascinating conversation with Michael Miller, CIO of Ziff Brothers Investments (and formerly Editor…