1. Financial Markets
Business challenge
Financial traders demand extreme speed and availability from trading systems. As its client base grew, ActivTrades wanted to cut latency, accelerate execution and streamline the delivery of new functions?
Transformation
ActivTrades migrated three major trading systems from on-premises infrastructure to IBM® Cloud™ for VMware solutions, backed by data storage, networking and security offerings on the IBM Cloud.
“The fact that a large portion of our critical infrastructure is on the IBM Cloud speaks for itself.” —Sashko Lazov, IT Manager, ActivTrades
Business benefits:
Up to 3X
performance boost, helping clients seize fleeting opportunities for profit
Security-rich
cloud platform with ultra-high availability protects client investments
Hours not days
to fire up new resources, for faster response to emerging requirements
ActivTrades
Accelerating financial trading and boosting flexibility on the IBM Cloud
Solution components
IBM® Cloud™ for Vmware Solutions
VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud
IBM Cloud bare metal servers
Client Name
ActivTrades
Company Background
ActivTrades is an independent broker offering financial trading services in foreign exchange Contracts for Difference (CFDs) and Spread Betting. Clients can trade many instruments including Forex, Shares, Indices, Metals, Commodities, ETFs and more.
Business challenge
Financial traders demand extreme speed and availability from trading systems. As its client base grew, ActivTrades wanted to cut latency, accelerate execution and streamline the delivery of new functions
The benefit
Moving to a single-tenant virtualized environment on IBM Cloud has tripled performance for ActivTrades, while enhancing security, availability, scalability, and the ability to respond to change.
Pull Quote
“The fact that a large portion of our critical infrastructure is on the IBM Cloud speaks for itself.” —Sashko Lazov, IT Manager, ActivTrades
Solution components
IBM® Cloud™ for Vmware Solutions
VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud
IBM Cloud bare metal servers
Case study Link
ActivTrades is an independent broker offering financial trading services in foreign exchange Contracts for Difference (CFDs) and Spread Betting. Clients can trade many instruments including Forex, Shares, Indices, Metals, Commodities, ETFs and more.
Established in 2001 in Switzerland, ActivTrades grew to become a global derivatives broker for both retail and institutional clients, and moved its headquarters to London in It now operates from five different locations: London, Milan, Dubai, Sofia and the Bahamas.
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