Take note of cloud myths

Overview

In a sector such as finance where fierce competitive pressures to find new growth bump against the need to restrain IT expenditure, the cloud can help to spread the costs of new projects as well as allowing new infrastructure and projects to be provisioned and brought on stream much more quickly.

However, the requirement for minimal latency means that some trading systems will always need to be retained in-house. A seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud system allows such firms the best of both worlds: the flexibility and raw power of a cloud solution for development and data processing, merged with with low-latency on-premise infrastructure to support trading systems.