Solution? Balanced Strategy

Solution providers should help enterprises implement a balanced strategy for overcoming latency challenges that will provide the greatest return on investment when migrating infrastructure to the cloud, according to Rubin.

“Understand, anticipate and react to performance and latency requirements for individual applications, work with service providers that specialize in overcoming latency, and plug into colocation facilities to access local network and cloud hubs,” she said. “With this course of action, enterprises can prevent latency from killing their cloud and hybrid projects.”

Bradley, of Digital Realty, added: “The ultimate low-latency and highly reliable solution is to locate the storage and compute resources next to each other in a connected campus, affording private connections and thereby avoiding the public internet, reducing points of failure and likely reducing costs.”