Yes, the cloud seems to be crushing it, but according to Ellen Rubin, CEO and co-founder of ClearSky Data, as many as 50 percent of cloud customers have brought workloads back on-premise due to latency and performance issues in production applications for dispersed workforces. This makes it a pressing issue for dispersed teams, and threatens forward momentum. I spoke with Ellen about the problem, how latency affects businesses, and what CIOs can do to address the challenge. BN: What is the difference between storage and network latency? ER: Storage latency concerns the response time of physical storage media, such as disk drives,… [Continue Reading]