Latency Becomes Costly Race of Attrition

As the economy continues to bite into trading firms' bottom lines and data budgets, market data and technology professionals are reevaluating their spend on low-latency data infrastructures, and weighing the increasing costs against diminishing returns as it becomes harder and more expensive to gain advantage through speed alone.

"Low latency is a moving target and a relative term -- you have to be faster than your competitors, and not much faster than that," so as not to be spending