Utilizing Solid State Disks in the Securities Industry
Learn how SSDs can add speed and persistence to critical securities applications.
SSDs offer increased performance to some of the most important applications in the securities industry. RamSan® products are proven solutions deployed globally to accelerate critical financial exchange, securities trading, and bank applications.
The securities industry is one of the most performance sensitive sectors of the economy. Electronic exchanges, trading and clearing systems, and algorithmic trading are growing as tick data response times decline. This has created an environment of fierce competition where the performance of IT infrastructure makes the difference between the firms that capture market share and profits and those that don’t. System response times (latency) are of critical importance to applications in this environment.
In addition to the intense performance requirements of the securities industry, resiliency of IT systems is critical. The need to electronically create legally binding agreements for tremendous monetary sums places unique requirements for redundancy and real-time position management on infrastructure. A firm that is not in control of its trades and positions is left without a view of its risk and is at the mercy of counterparties. This can result in dramatic costs from settlement failures, fines for missing regulatory timing requirements, and customer complaints. To avoid this situation, data in securities applications not only needs to be fast, it must be persistent.
Improve Performance with Solid State Disks
With the performance gap between processors and hard drive-based storage systems widening, solid state storage is entering the limelight. Because solid state systems rely on memory chips for data storage, they offer unprecedented access times that narrow the gap between the processor speeds and storage speeds. Companies have used solid state storage systems to resolve input/output (I/O) performance problems for over three decades. These systems have become increasingly sophisticated, higher performing, and lower cost, which sends a clear message… there is no better tool for improving I/O performance.
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The securities industry is one of the most performance sensitive sectors of the economy. Electronic exchanges, trading and clearing systems, and algorithmic trading are growing as tick data response times decline. This has created an environment of fierce competition where the performance of IT infrastructure makes the difference between the firms that capture market share and profits and those that don’t. System response times (latency) are of critical importance to applications in this environment.
In addition to the intense performance requirements of the securities industry, resiliency of IT systems is critical. The need to electronically create legally binding agreements for tremendous monetary sums places unique requirements for redundancy and real-time position management on infrastructure. A firm that is not in control of its trades and positions is left without a view of its risk and is at the mercy of counterparties. This can result in dramatic costs from settlement failures, fines for missing regulatory timing requirements, and customer complaints. To avoid this situation, data in securities applications not only needs to be fast, it must be persistent.
