Volume gets a lot of the press when it comes to data. Size is right there in the once-ubiquitous term “Big Data.”
This isn’t a new thing. Back when I was an IT industry analyst, I once observed in a research note that marketing copy placed way too much emphasis on the bandwidth numbers associated with big server designs, and not enough on the time that elapses between a request for data and its initial arrival – which is to say the latency.
