Wallis Simpson, the former Duchess of Windsor, famously said that you can never be too rich or too thin. In the modern enterprise, the corollary would be that data can never move too fast. Network latency is a perennial challenge that, despite innovations in abstract networking and advanced fabric architectures, will likely remain at the top of the enterprise list of pet peeves for some time. A key element in this strategy is the emergence of data virtualization (DV).
