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The Blair Switch Project (Halloween Special)
On April 9th, 2018 three (billion) traffic flows, Heather, Mike and Josh, set out to supply the German Internet with content. They traveled to the Interxion FRA5 data center to a rendezvous with the...
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The Errors are Coming from OUTSIDE the Enterprise (Halloween Special)
One of the scariest moments in a network engineer’s life is when they realize that the errors are not in their network, but outside the enterprise, either on the Internet or somewhere in the cloud....
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Three CIO Takeaways from Gartner Symposium 2018
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...
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The Silence of the LANs (Halloween Special)
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...
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In Outage Space, No One Can Hear You Scream (Halloween Special)
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...
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What 160M Public Cloud Performance Measurements Mean
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),...
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Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
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...
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Why Credit Suisse Says ThousandEyes is Disruptive Tech
We’re excited to share that Credit Suisse has named ThousandEyes as one of only five technology providers to its inaugural Disruptive Technology Recognition (DTR) Program. Here are three reasons this...
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Optimizing Web Performance with TLS 1.3
Website performance depends on a number of external factors such as network latency, server load and the use of a CDN. A good metric of a website’s performance is Response Time, which measures how...
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AWS Addresses Performance Instability with AWS Global Accelerator
Yesterday, at re:Invent 2018, Amazon made a plethora of announcements ranging from a new base-station as a service (AWS Ground Station) to introducing re:Inforce, a new security conference. But one...
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What’s New in Fall 2018
Hope the Fall season is treating you all well. We are really excited to give you some colorful updates to get you better insights into your applications, and networks. Without more ado, here is all...
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Turning Monitoring into Measurable Business Value is Imperative
This is the first in a 3-part blog series on how to use the BSR methodology to ‘operationalize’ your investment in ThousandEyes with the goal of continuous improvement in IT Operations Delivery &...
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How Cloud Network Architectures Impact Performance
In a previous blog post, we covered the reasons why we embarked on releasing a Public Cloud Performance Benchmark Report, the breadth and depth of data gathered, and how the report can help IT leaders...
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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
As the first step that must take place before connecting to a website, the Domain Name System (DNS) is an important lever to improve performance, as well as security. Many enterprises choose to run...
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CenturyLink Outage: Lessons in Managing Internet Risks
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...
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Five Infrastructure Trends to Watch for in 2019
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...
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Discovering Latent DNS Issues: A Quad9 Case Study
Quad9 has deployed its public DNS resolver solution at nearly 150 locations worldwide, in 84 nations. With such a widely-distributed set of servers and services, having adequate visibility into...
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Surviving DNS Flag Day
DNS Flag Day is here and with it comes new changes that could impact your domain’s availability. What do you need to know and how can you quickly identify its impacts on you and your users? Read on...
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Modern DNS and the Value of One Second
What if we told you that 1 second could mean 7% more revenue? Time is Money. Seconds count big time in terms of website conversions, revenue, stickiness... loyalty. That’s why application performance...
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Don’t Deprecate Your Digital Experience Visibility
At the beginning of 2019, it’s worth taking stock of IT Ops initiatives. One of the biggest takeaways from 2018 is that cloud adoption and the digitization of customer experiences are mainstreaming...
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