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EFF: Large ISPs, Flushed with Capital, Blame Consumer Protections for Their Disregard of Rural America

Large ISPs, Flushed with Capital, Blame Consumer Protections for Their Disregard of Rural America Companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon are going around to state legislatures and telling them that any laws they pass that protect consumers will harm their ability to deploy networks in rural America. They claim that any legislator eager to protect their constituents from the nefarious things that can be done by companies that control access to the Internet is somehow hurting residents most desperate for an Internet connection. But their lack of willingness to invest has nothing to do with laws like net neutrality or privacy, because today they are nearly completely deregulated, sitting on a mountain of cash, and have no shown intention of connecting rural Americans to high-speed Internet while their smaller competitors take up the challenge. The Tax Cuts from Congress Gave Them Billions in New Profits Followed by No New Plans to Roll out New Networks Congress cut corporate ...

What You Need to Know About Hybrid Data Centers

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Over the last several years, the move to the cloud has stabilized as the applications that could be easily and cost effectively outsourced, were moved to the cloud. The applications left on premise are simply too integrated into local operations or too expensive to move. This forced a change to the way data center staffs manage their assets with some assets outsourced and others still on-premise/at “the edge”. The new “hybrid” data centers architecture can consist of a combination of – a centralized cloud characterized by massive compute and storage, regional edge data centers that consist of large compute and storage located closer to the user, and local edge with smaller compute and storage assets very near to where the data is being consumed like a branch office or retail store. According to recent data gathered by 451 Research analysts, by year 2019 organizations anticipate that just under half (46%) of enterprise workloads will run in on-premise IT environments, with the remain...