trading in the cloud...while keeping your feet on the ground!
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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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• www.gigaspaces.com/cloud• +44(0)207-117-0213• twitter.com/gigaspaces• [email protected]
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