(Mike Miller, Cloudant). Exactly, we run cloudant clusters in nearly 20 data centers globally on many different providers (ec2, softlayer, rackspace, joyent, azure, hostway, ...) so we make sure that the data and application tiers are co-located.

Dealing with direct connections from mobile is more fun.

You should address this more clearly on your sales website. It's the first question people will have regarding using a database-as-a-service.

So mentioning the data centers you are in would be helpful.

You're right, we should address that more clearly. Thanks for the feedback.

Seriously do. I spent a few minutes looking for the list of data centres. And when I couldn't find it I left with the assumption that it was going to be a slow, pricey mess.

Nothing is more important than transparency when you are providing core infrastructure.

Actually you know what would be even better. I provide an IP address and you tell me the best, worst and median response times for a simple request.