ThousandEyes extended its watchful gaze over network intelligence vantage points today with a new Orange Business Services partnership. The companies say the partnership will provide end-to-end visibility and network performance insights across the internet, public clouds, and SD-WAN to enterprises and carriers.  

As more companies transition into a hybrid WAN model, application performance and user experience will depend on networks, infrastructures, and services that they can’t control. Without control of those components, enterprises are susceptible to blind spots that makes it next to impossible to troubleshoot problems point of origin. 

In deploying ThousandEyes’ platform, Orange Business Services hopes to keep its orange customers from see black — avoiding the blind spots. 

“Understanding the Internet as a delivery path is crucial,” said Anne-Marie Thiollet, VP of connectivity at Orange Business Services, in a statement. “With the ThousandEyes platform, Orange Business Services will give its customers the visibility they need to deliver a superior digital experience to users via both the internet and multicloud.”

As its customers move to the cloud and SD-WAN, Orange says the ThousandEyes platform can also help them through their migration phases. 

ThousandEyes’ network monitoring technology is designed to allow enterprises to leverage vantage points inside of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms to measure cloud performance across multiple platforms and geographies. This provides visibility into quality of experience at the application and network level, and it also speed up troubleshooting to plan and execute multicloud deployments.

The end goal is to provide greater insight into the end-user experience on the internal and external fronts where “businesses can see, understand and manage digital experience over the public internet like it's their own private network and embrace internet and cloud with confidence,” said Craig Vario, VP for global channel sales at ThousandEyes, in a statement. 

Orange is the latest to tap into ThousandEyes' platform. In August, Alibaba Cloud joined the ranks of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to seek sanctuary under ThousandEyes’ extended multicloud support. 

The inclusion of Alibaba Cloud — the largest cloud provider in China — is also a strategic one for ThousandEyes.

According to a Gartner research report, the IaaS market grew 31.8% in the last year. Alibaba Cloud took the top spot in China growing a prodigious 92.6% in 2018 alone.