ThousandEyes

Analyst Coverage :

Paul Bevan

ThousandEyes was founded in 2010 in San Francisco by Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira. They had seen that the Internet was on its way to becoming the new enterprise backbone, and that it would become the medium by which every company would conduct its business. As can be seen in its regular Internet and Cloud Performance reports, its breadth of network monitoring capabilities provides a unique intelligence on the performance and availability of the public internet and the networks of major cloud providers. In addition to monitoring for outages and performance degradation, customers can also benefit from advice on the best path, helping them proactively implement and monitor the most effective network architecture for globally distributed operations.

In August 2020 ThousandEyes was acquired by Cisco as a key component of its strategic focus on supporting its initiatives for Hybrid Work and Observability, as well as delivering visibility across SD-WAN and SASE environments. It complements other Cisco acquisitions in this area, most notably, AppDynamics. ThousandEyes is careful to stress that it is an assurance platform, not an Observability tool. However, it undoubtedly brings significant and highly differentiated capabilities to Cisco’s Splunk Observability solution, Webex, SASE and SD-WAN platforms while itself benefiting from the scale, scope and market presence of Cisco itself.