Financial Industry
When Time is Money, Remove I/O Bottlenecks
Time is Money. This phrase drives business throughout the world, but the phrase rings loudest to the financial industry. Growing customer bases, expanding on-line real-time transactions, and burgeoning regulations all increase the burden on financial services data centers. As though business factors are not enough, technology initiatives that seek to simplify by centralizing systems and storage expose previously hidden bottlenecks. Modern applications that search to deliver on the promises of OLTP and OLAP send wave after wave of transactions and complex inquiries to burdened platforms. Financial services companies respond to these challenges with products from Texas Memory Systems.
Our focus on performance means that financial service companies can:
- Quickly respond to customer inquiries. Client facing applications need instant response time under a widely varying user load. The RamSan low latency and high I/O per second capabilities can enable these applications to rise to the challenge.
- Expand internal and external service offerings. The capabilities of compute infrastructure directly impact what service offerings are feasible. The low latency and ability of the RamSan to handle concurrent I/O requests enable faster real-time offerings and more comprehensive analytical systems than other storage can support.
- Reduce batch processing times. Batch jobs that concern real world financial data have tight completion deadlines. As batch runs start to approach their limits, the ability to add customers is directly threatened. By reducing the time required for each I/O, batch processes run faster on the RamSan.
- Improve profitability. The ability to react faster than the competition drives profits in finance. Use the RamSan to respond faster.
Solid state disks offer increased performance to some of the most important applications in the securities industry. More specifically the RamSan-440 and the RamSan-630 can drastically improve performance without requiring costly rewrites of applications by greatly reducing the latency of the storage. There are two broad categories of applications where solid state disks are leveraged; applications where the best performance would come from running in server memory but the volatility (risk of data loss) of memory cannot be tolerated, and applications where such large capacities are needed that server memory is either not large enough or way too costly. The RamSan-440 and the RamSan-630 solid state disks are designed to offer a solution to both of these cases. They are proven solutions deployed globally to accelerate critical financial exchange, securities trading, and banking applications.
For more information, please download PDF white paper:
Utilizing Solid State Disks in the Securities Industry
