ThousandEyes Peers Into Cloud Performance
October 11, 2013
Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Ethan Banks.
While outsourcing applications or infrastructure to the public cloud relieves IT of some operational burdens, IT still has to monitor that infrastructure. Companies often overlook the complexity of troubleshooting a cloud app integrated with local infrastructure. If there’s a performance problem, is it the cloud provider? A congested link on the Internet path between the application and the consumer? A problem on the LAN?
How does one find the root cause without the provider and IT department pointing fingers at each other? This is the problem that ThousandEyes wants to address. ThousandEyes was founded in January 2010 to address the challenge of network performance management in the cloud era. I saw a presentation from ThousandEyes at Network Field Day 6, and have also played with a trial version of the service…
The startup sees the issue of cloud consumption as three separate problem domains for businesses: performance of the local network, performance across the path transiting the Internet, and performance of the cloud application or service itself. The company combines metrics from these three domains into one interface that lets customers zoom in on the root problem…
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