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…
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…
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…
Over the past few months, the product marketing and research team at ThousandEyes has been heads down in evaluating the 'State of the Cloud' through data-driven performance analysis. Just a couple of weeks ago, my colleague Angelique Medina released a Global DNS Performance Report based on 15M performance measurements of…
Most enterprises began their cloud journey with a single infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Lately, compelling offerings from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), IBM, Digital Ocean and others have created a plethora of options, with best-of-breed functionality designed for different workload types. Much as we saw…