“Our strategy was to research and introduce a platform that allowed for quicker implementation times while providing greater scalability, performance and reliability.”
– Philip yarrow, Director of Electronic trading, Winterflood.
Challenge: Winterflood Securities is one of the leading liquidity providers in London, making markets in more UK stocks than any other firm. This success is built upon a highly experienced 90-strong trading team and the ability to offer its clients (brokers, asset managers, and institutional investors) low-latency, integrated electronic trading platforms and over 10,000 tradable instruments. The introduction in Europe of the 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has resulted in significant fragmentation across the European marketplace…
Solution: Faced with the need to upgrade its VMware platform, Winterflood decided to step back and take a holistic review of its data center strategy. “We have a Cisco end-to-end network infrastructure, which we like and know very well. In particular, their Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support is excellent and provides us with a huge comfort factor. In addition, we’ve also been monitoring the evolution of blade servers for a while. Therefore, the idea of closely integrating the two together was very attractive,” says Wayne Davies, manager networks and infrastructure for Winterflood…
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