The CIO of a fast-growing SaaS company recently told us that the organization was starting to break the limits of their current infrastructure. Their platform—used by thousands of customers for real-time data analytics—was seeing more complaints about slow response times during peak usage hours outside of their default market. “Every time we get a traffic spike, we’re hit with performance issues,” the CIO said. “It’s frustrating. We’ve optimized everything we can in our core data centers, but our customers in more remote regions are still experiencing latency and performance issues. We’re losing deals because of it, and it is…

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