"7) You run “big data” applications (i.e., financial) that require extremely low latency and/ or extreme disk I/O requirements." I am currently having exactly

"7) You run “big data” applications (i.e., financial) that require extremely low latency and/ or extreme disk I/O requirements." I am currently having exactly this problem, and although my preference is to try to stay on the cloud, more and more it looks like a losing fight.