Reliability matters. Reliability of the Internet matters, but the Internet wasn’t built for how we use it today. Our global bases of users, our remote workers, the backbone of our SD-WAN migration, what do these all have in common? The Internet. And we are relying on it more than ever.…
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…
![[Update] PG&E Web Servers Go Dark Amid Looming Power Shutdown](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Featured-Image-PGE-Web-Servers-Go-Dark-Amid-Looming-Power-Shutdown.jpg "[Update] PG&E Web Servers Go Dark Amid Looming Power Shutdown")
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…
If you haven’t considered how risky it is to rely on the Internet to carry your mission-critical customer and employee digital experiences, then the month of June 2019 alone can serve as a great learning opportunity, with three distinct and far-reaching examples of just how fragile the Internet is. On…
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…