trading in the cloud...while keeping your feet on the ground!

Trading in the Cloud

ORbyte Solutions Ltd

…while keeping your feet on the ground!

AWS Startup Tour 2009

Cédric Roll / Francis Otshudi

About us

"We leverage our experience in software development, project delivery and IT

operations to build products and offer services which enable our customers to gain a

competitive advantage and fully exploit the potential of their technology"

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About us

• Products and services based on:– Web 2.0– RIA (Rich Internet Application)– XTP (eXtreme Transaction Processing)– Cloud Computing

• Core segments: Retail Brokers, Traders’ communities and financial content providers

• FX platform first version released in January

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FX and CFD trading application

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Key benefits of Cloud Computing

• “Save for a rainy day”: Cost control for a start-up

• “The Sky is the limit”: Access to an infrastructure we just couldn’t afford otherwise

• “Agile provisioning”• “Unique Selling Point (USP) enhancer”

– Provide options– Trading services on demand– POC and Time to market

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Our Experience in EC2

Gigaspaces EC2 Cloud Tools

• Used to deploy our processing layer (price calculations, order processing, risk calculations, margins,…)

• XML used to describe the application and the provisioning requirements in EC2

• SSL encrypted remote access to the instance (NX client)

• Access to the performance monitor for the grid cluster and individual server instance

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Our Experience in EC2

S3 Fox - S3 Firefox Organiser

• Used to get the application into our S3 buckets

• Stores our private AMI (for our web services layer)

• Upload chart close of business data into S3

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Next Steps• Performance benchmarks• Cost benchmarks• Failover and recovery• Monitoring • Security and regulation• Cloud provider evaluation• Other Amazon products: DevPay,

MapReduce,...

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Stay Tuned

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