Information is the key corporate asset, so it must be accurate, consistent, timely, and secure. There are points of contention, however, in how up-to-the-minute that data must be. This presentation was used by Michael Dortch, leading data center industry analyst, Chris Gaskins, RF Code VP of Product Development and Tim Harvie, CEO of Fluensee for their discussion of the issues related to “information latency”—the cost to an organization of acting on “last known” versus real-time data about critical physical assets.