Cisco ThousandEyes vs IBM

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

IBM leads in AI visibility (80 vs 29)

Cisco ThousandEyes

EstablishedIT Infrastructure

Network Monitoring

SF internet and cloud network intelligence platform acquired by Cisco. Provides end-to-end visibility into network performance across internet and SaaS paths.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D29
Category Rank
#9 of 9
AI Consensus
60%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
28
Perplexity
26
Gemini
30

About

Cisco ThousandEyes is a network intelligence platform headquartered in San Francisco that provides enterprises and service providers with end-to-end visibility into digital experience across the internet, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS applications. Originally founded in 2010 and acquired by Cisco in 2020, ThousandEyes operates a distributed network of monitoring agents—deployed in enterprise locations, cloud regions, and backbone provider networks—that continuously measure network path performance, packet loss, latency, and service availability from the perspective of real users. This outside-in monitoring approach gives network and IT teams visibility into segments of the delivery path—including third-party ISPs, CDNs, and cloud providers—that traditional infrastructure monitoring cannot reach.

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IBM

LeaderEnterprise Software

General

Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A80
Category Rank
#56 of 1158
AI Consensus
67%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
74
Perplexity
71
Gemini
84

About

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

29
Overall Score
80
#9
Category Rank
#56
60
AI Consensus
67
up
Trend
up
28
ChatGPT
74
26
Perplexity
71
30
Gemini
84
20
Claude
74
38
Grok
81

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