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.…
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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…
At ThousandEyes, we talk about the importance of adopting a readiness lifecycle when dealing with cloud and Internet adoption. This is especially true of SD-WAN deployments, because the goal of SD-WAN is to achieve better cloud application performance and cost savings, by heavily augmenting or replacing the use of MPLS…
Modern consumers have significantly different expectations for their financial institutions than they did five years ago. As customer experience has shifted away from personal interactions at brick-and-mortar locations to digital interactions distributed across web services and mobile applications, consumer loyalty and their continued patronage has become increasingly ephemeral. As such,…
Digital transformation is a journey, not a destination. Technology is moving at a rapid pace, while public sector organizations race to catch up and “modernize” their digital experiences and network infrastructure. Each agency’s path to transformation might be different: an incremental approach, a major enterprise-wide cloud migration or piecemeal system…
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…