Oath, a media subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc., is taking a hybrid-cloud approach to the daunting task of integrating data spread across Yahoo, AOL and dozens of other online brands, the company’s chief technology officer says. These are housed in four data centers across the U.S., with several others located around the world, he said. The company does not disclose the total number of its data centers in operation. Your own data centers and private-cloud capabilities already have global reach. If you have applications in your on-premise system and suddenly you move them two hundred miles away, to where data centers are, that distance can add micro seconds to transactions.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 20, 2018 18:22 UTC