Overview

Challenges and Solutions

Financial services firms are under increasing pressure to grow revenue and market share amidst intense competition, regulations, and the growing need for enterprise risk management. At the same time customers are struggling to lower the total cost of ownership of resources, increase operating efficiency – and be faster, more agile and adaptive to changing business demands.

The traditional approach of throwing additional hardware at the problem doesn’t cut it any more. Reducing capital costs by deploying siloed compute-clusters based on commodity hardware isn’t an ideal solution either, since capital costs are reduced at the expense of increased operating costs and reduced reliability.

Articles:

• Lehmans Builds a Fixed-Income Grid
• JPM Chase Reaping the Benefits of Grid

The Platform Advantage

Move to a true grid environment where multiple users and applications share compute resources – hardware and software licenses – in virtual pools that adjust and scale based on your firm’s needs.

 Platform's grid computing solutions, coupled with commodity hardware architectures and high-speed interconnect technologies, can deliver supercomputer performance to your applications inexpensively, reliably and with almost immediate payback.

Increased Revenue
Run your applications orders of magnitude faster (up to 80% reduction in job runtimes) – and stay ahead of your competitors.

Gain a competitive advantage
Build and test grid-ready applications independent of the underlying grid infrastructure - leading to faster time to grid-enable applications and faster time to market.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Increase server and cluster utilization to up to 95% – get more for less. And, as more applications and users migrate onto the grid, the cost savings continue to grow exponentially.