Is latency the cloud's Achilles heel? [Q&A]

The cloud is arguably the most transformative enterprise technology in the past two decades. Yet, as powerful as it is, it faces a huge latency problem -- and the big public cloud providers know it. Their data centers can't be everywhere and close to every end-user, so the big distances created result in unavoidable latency. On its own, the public cloud can't power smart cities, autonomous vehicles, primary storage or any other application that requires a predictable, high-speed response for large data sets that reside in many locations. A self-driving car can't wait seconds for data it sends to the… [Continue Reading]