Low Latency's New Face?

Some firms, (see story, this issue), have taken an unconventional route to solving this problem by hiring individuals from non-financial services verticals, such as networking, storage and telecommunications, which have similar or greater needs in the latency space.

That strategy-going where the talent can be found-is sound, but it raises some interesting questions about whether these new hires will want to use the same technologies that they have used in their previous verticals. It's not an