ThousandEyes Scans Multi-Cloud PerformanceThousandEyes Scans Multi-Cloud Performance

In the cloud, as with real estate, location is paramount. Applications need to be located near their users to ensure fast responsiveness, whether the users are people or devices on the Internet of Things.

ThousandEyes is looking to help enterprises find the best cloud real estate with the introduction of Network Intelligence, launched Thursday. The service enables enterprises to monitor application performance on Amazon Web Services Inc. , Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud at particular locations. Enterprises can then decide the best cloud platform and geographic region to locate performance-sensitive applications, Ameet Naik, ThousandEyes technical marketing manager, tells Light Reading.

"All the traditional monitoring services do a great job within your own walls," Naik says. Network Intelligence goes beyond those walls into multiple public clouds.

ThousandEyes has software agents located in public cloud data centers in 160 cities around the world. The company can also put agents inside an enterprise's own environment to monitor private cloud applications. Public cloud coverage includes all major cloud regions: 15 each for AWS and Google, and 25 for Azure.

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