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CMC Markets: Utilising Geneos to provide global visibility across their IT estate
CMC Markets use of Geneos CMC Markets is a UK-based financial derivatives dealer. The company offers online trading in spread betting, contracts for difference (CFDs) and foreign exchange (forex) across world markets.
Using Git with Geneos
Gateway hooks allow Geneos users to tie in with source control systems. This allows the system administrator to track which user has changed what and when in the gateway setup.
ITRS offers real time monitoring of ICE Data Services’ Consolidated Feed
ITRS announced today that it will offer real time monitoring capabilities for clients using ICE Data Services’ Consolidated Feed, which provides access to global content from more than 450 markets through one normalized real time data feed. This powerful combination allows businesses to monitor infrastructure, as well as the integrity of market data feeds, via one platform.
Mapping your IT capacity before a cloud migration
Capacity planning for cloud migrations The first step to successfully transitioning to a cloud environment involves collecting the right capacity metrics. Next, the enterprise must aggregate, model and visualise this data to see how it would fit into the new cloud infrastructure.
Geneos in the Cloud
Cloud Adoption in Financial Services Financial services firms today are facing an unprecedented number of challenges, internal and external to the business. Firms must continue to attract new clientele and retain long-standing customers, all while managing increasing demands from
How to bring Capacity Planning practices into the Big Data age
The Facts: Did you know the typical data centre server only operates at 12 to 18 percent of its capacity?[1] This is staggeringly low, but technical staff who are managing and maintaining large data centres are more concerned with keeping the lights on than worrying about ef
Reducing Reputational Risk in Trading Systems
It took just 30 minutes for Knight Capital to lose a staggering $440 million because of glitches in newly deployed code. The catastrophe in 2012 became the infamous poster child of the perilous reputational consequences of poorly monitored trading infrastructure.
Insights into capacity management & planning
Analysts have estimated that 30% of outages are caused by lack of capacity and that globally there is $30 Bn of over spend on IT capacity. The issue is how to find the ‘hot spots’ and the ‘cold spots’. Capacity Planning and Management is the first logical step to making sure that your business doesn’t become a number in those statistics.