Cloud Latency Issues? Dedicated Network Connections Will Help

February 3, 2013 Off By David
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Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author:  David Strom.

Do you ever encounter delays in loading web-based applications and get impatient? Resulting from poor network latency, or how fast data is transferred from one location to another, these delays are frustrating to as end users, but are far more costly to Internet businesses that depend on lightning-quick web experiences for their customers. With the proliferation of cloud computing placing added demands on Internet speed and connectivity, latency is becoming a more critical concern for everyone, from the end user to the enterprise.

Pre-Internet, latency was characterized by the number of router hops between you and your application, and the delay that packets took to get from source to destination. For the most part, your corporation owned all of the intervening routers, so network delays remained fairly consistent and predictable. As businesses migrate and deploy more and more applications to the cloud, the issue of latency is becoming increasingly complex. In order to leverage cloud computing as a true business enabler, it is critical that organizations learn how to manage and reduce latency…

The first step in reducing latency is to identify its causes. To do this, we must examine latency not as it relates to the web, but as it relates to the inherent components of cloud computing. After some analysis, you’ll see that it isn’t just poor latency in the cloud but the unpredictable nature of the various network connections between on-premise and cloud applications that can cause problems. We’ve provided below five layers of complexity that are unpredictable in nature and must therefore be considered when migrating applications to the cloud…

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