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…
Public cloud, SaaS, hybrid and SD-WAN adoption dramatically accelerated last year. This year, enterprises will see the impact of this adoption on their operations, as they become more dependent on the Internet and learn to manage more services beyond their direct control. Here are five trends we expect to see…
On the morning of December 27th, ThousandEyes monitors picked up a major service outage on the CenturyLink network impacting AS 209. A quick scan of social media revealed that users all across the US were reporting issues with not just DIA services but also critical services like E911 and traditional…
In our first post on monitoring Zscaler secure web gateways (SWGs), we looked at the overall architecture of the Zscaler service and the monitoring implications for IT and network administrators. We also explored how to use ThousandEyes to solve a Salesforce performance issue using a monitoring approach that combines end-to-end…
Attending the Gartner CIO Conference in Toronto a few weeks back gave me the opportunity to talk to IT leaders about their top of mind concerns. A topic that repeatedly came up in conversations with enterprise attendees was SD-WAN adoption. The cost and manageability benefits are clearly compelling, and even…