Nick Kephart
Sr. Director, Product Management
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Product Updates
What’s New in Q2 2018
We’ve been busy this summer (a rather warm one in London and a cool one in San Francisco) to bring you exciting new ways to get better intelligence about your networks and applications. Highlights include: Path Visualization and Device Layer get grouping options to elegantly…
Product Updates
How Much Data is Enough? Tips on Selecting a Test Interval
Given the huge amount of data that traverses a network, all network monitoring boils down to choosing which samples of data you should pay attention to. And active monitoring, sending and receiving diagnostic traffic or device info is no different. More samples can increase…
Product Updates
Monitoring IPv6 Networks
IPv6 has been around for two decades, and yet it is only now making up a meaningful portion of Internet traffic. Reports today find that there are between 10-15 billion Internet-connected devices (each requiring an IP address), yet only 2.8 billion routed IPv4 addresses.…
Outage Analyses
Rostelecom Route Leak Targets E-Commerce Services
Last week Rostelecom, one of Russia’s largest, partially state-owned Internet service providers, leaked dozens of routes pertaining to IP addresses that belong to major financial services firms. This route leak redirected Internet traffic bound for these financial firms…
Events
Automating Performance Monitoring at Microsoft
Last week we took ThousandEyes Connect to the road and visited Seattle, bringing together network engineers, architects and site reliability teams to discuss network performance. Scott Hinckley, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Dynamics 365, opened up the morning…
Industry
What Is Net Neutrality?
Over the past 3 years, net neutrality has been a hot political topic as the Obama and Trump administrations have taken diverging positions. Most recently, with a repeal of 2015 privacy protections, the Trump Administration has signalled a move away from the principle of…
Product Updates
A Guide to DNS Record Types
The domain name system (DNS) is a directory service that allows Internet-connected devices to lookup information for resources on the Internet. The information provided includes IP addresses, which are used to route Internet traffic.
Product Updates
Monitoring SaaS Performance from the End User
When folks talk about end user or ‘real user’ monitoring, they usually mean injecting code (often Javascript) into an application to measure user behavior and timing. This can be great to complement an application monitoring strategy. But this sort of method doesn’t work…
Outage Analyses
The DDoS Attack on Dyn’s DNS Infrastructure
On Friday, October 21st, a series of large-scale DDoS attacks were launched against Dyn, a managed DNS provider. Over the course of 18 hours, these attacks disrupted many critical services–including Spotify, Amazon and HBO Now–all of whom are customers of Dyn. At the height…
