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Data Center Connectivity as a Competitive Advantage for
Financial Services Markets
Matching I/O capabilities to multi-core CPU-based servers is critical for achieving maximum server utilization. Delivering deterministic performance in adverse conditions such as massive data volume growth and spikes is becoming a necessity in service-oriented data centers where IT infrastructure performance has a direct relationship to the firm’s revenue and competitiveness. The low-latency and high bandwidth characteristics of Mellanox InfiniBand products and the ecosystem of Tier 1 OEMs and OS vendors are helping enterprise data centers effectively tackle many growth, competitiveness and service level challenges.
Ensure Deterministic and Fast Trade Execution
IT departments in financial capital markets are facing huge growth in market data and decreasing tolerance for trade execution latency causing them to intensely focus on infrastructure performance to maintain competitiveness.
Failure to leverage efficient and cost-effective hardware are causing data center costs to mushroom. InfiniBand solutions from OEMs like Cisco and Voltaire, in collaboration with market data application providers like Wombat and Reuters, are solving these challenges today for many fortune 500 companies. For example, the Cisco-Wombat solution significantly enhances the speed and predictability of market data delivery by eliminating almost 2/3rd of mean latency and reducing standard deviation of mean latency by 1/3rd. The Voltaire-Reuters RMDS solution reduces latency by up to 46% and throughput (updates/sec) is nearly doubled.
Drive SOA Acceleration
Another criterion for competitive advantage is service delivery and associated business process management, where business goals drive IT infrastructure design and growth (not technology). Real time flow of data across servers and systems is a necessity. So is the ability to cost-effectively integrate disparate systems and enable higher application performance without requiring them to change. Enterprise Message Bus or Services software that is Java and .NET compliant form the backbone for delivering service oriented architecture (SOA) that meets the above needs.
When such Enterprise Message Bus or Services are powered by InfiniBand, the entire realm of data center applications that rely on the backbone for accomplishing their tasks are accelerated automatically. This enables IT infrastructures to deliver significantly higher service levels while maintaining agility. For example, TIBCO Enterprise Message Bus and Rendezvous solutions have been proven to achieve four times more throughput using Cisco’s high bandwidth (20Gb/s) and lowest latency InfiniBand-based networking products.
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