IT leaders have been contending with latency for decades. While the basic problem hasn’t changed, solving it is more important than ever. That’s because applications have steadily grown more sensitive to latency. With the advent of agentic AI, this trend will accelerate. In the past, enterprises only had to support human users, and humans aren’t as sensitive to latency as machines are. Over time, enterprises began working with machine-to-machine architectures and adopted hybrid multicloud environments where latency was a performance bottleneck. Now, AI agents are connecting with each other and performing tasks at machine speed. Even very small delays could…

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