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Mind the Gap: FCC Shows Divide Between Advertised and Actual Internet Speeds in New Report

Almost half of all home and business internet connections in the U.S. have advertised speeds below the FCC’s broadband threshold, and 5.8 million have speeds below 3 Mbps. Continue reading

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GoDaddy Acquires Host Europe Group for $1.79 Billion

GoDaddy has made a $1.79 billion bet on expanding its international presence. Continue reading

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Amazon AWS’ Presence in Italy May Look Strangely Nuclear

The likely sale of two closed, fuel oil- and coal-firing power facilities by Italy’s largest electricity provider, Enel, to Amazon Web Services for repurposing as cloud data center facilities appears to actually have been in the works for some time. Continue reading

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Amazon VP: The Network Gear Economy Is Becoming Commoditized

With competing network stack vendors’ products becoming more open, perhaps one need not be an Amazon to build a more moderate data center using custom networking gear. Continue reading

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HPE Dumps OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Assets Onto SUSE

HPE has agreed to hand over its interest in both the OpenStack hybrid cloud platform and Cloud Foundry cloud-native apps platform. Continue reading

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