Deploying Low-Latency Applications in the Cloud

Cloud has become the preferred deployment option for most categories of enterprise systems. But conventional wisdom is that some systems that require low latency and a high degree of system availability, such as warehouse management systems (WMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES), are best deployed on-premises.

The argument is that response time over the Internet is never as fast as over a local area network and that such systems cannot tolerate any level of unscheduled downtime inherent in using a cloud application. 

Nevertheless, cloud systems are invading even this category of software. Although still in the minority, there are some vendors providing such low-latency applications as a cloud service. 

One example is Plex Systems.  And, interestingly, it is not a new example. 

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