It’s well documented that traditional IT architectures are not suited for the real-time rigors of today’s fast-paced digital economy. But even cloud services — initially brought in to swap out on-premises legacy technology for online equivalents — may not be enough to cut it anymore. “Customers not only expect zero downtime, they demand consistency in how applications perform no matter where they are in the world,” states Declan Morris, technology advisor and formerly CIO for Splunk, Morris predicts that “perhaps we will look back in the coming years and view the need to constantly spin up and down servers as a critical limitation of SaaS 1.0.”