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Transforming Real-Time Technology and Support To Cloud
CJC have been supporting cloud technologies since 2011. CJC are experts in real-time data infrastructures, financial markets and cloud technologies. Combined with our award-winning managed services, we can safely transform your business to the cloud, mitigating risk and ensuring the latest technologies are leveraged to achieve commercial benefits.
CJC have advanced cloud tooling products to migrate and manage your workloads to the cloud. Our Managed services significantly reduce your workloads – especially when it comes to IT security.
Capabilities
CLOUD EXPERTISE
CJC offer specialist cloud services based on the design and architecture or migration to new cloud-based environments. Customers can also leverage proactive monitoring, end-to-end management and troubleshooting of clients’ software components and infrastructures.
CLOUD PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Many firms want to realise the benefits of cloud as soon as possible, however, the capital markets is built on complex and legacy technologies. There are many examples of where migrations to the cloud have faltered, increasing outages and latency. Having expertise in both the cloud and traditional technologies is vital when transforming to the cloud. CJC get you to the cloud safely.
CJC collaborates with clients to ensure that the cloud transformation is seamless and utilises the best available capabilities. CJC's cloud services design and architects the cloud environments and package the required software components into the best cloud products.
MANAGED CLOUD SERVICES
CJC provide management and support for the client's cloud environments. Using the same methodologies as our award-winning technical managed services, clients often leverage CJC to manage their cloud-based infrastructure and applications.
CLOUD IT SECURITY
The financial services have clear regulation and demands on how infrastructure should be managed and secured – all of which has to be audited against. These are some of the most consuming aspects of system management.
CJC also manages the IT security elements of a cloud-based service. CJC ensures from day 1 the service is encrypted, zero-trust, utilising the best available security tooling. Systems are compliant and auditable.
CLOUD SUPPORT
CLOUD TOOLS
CJC first built its cloud tools platform in 2017, a powerful application which provides orchestration and control from packaging, through deployment to running all activities required to fulfil ongoing service requests. This streamlines migration and projects by weeks, if not months, for complex software deployment and workloads.
CLOUD ENABLEMENT
To successfully migrate firms to the cloud, you must be an expert in the cloud. The cloud provides an array of products and tooling for industries that leverages real-time data. CJC provide expertise in:
- Google Pub Sub+
- Big Query.
- Kubernetes.
- Azure AKS, Kafka.
- Amazon SQS.
- AWS Transit Gateway.
- Prometheus/InfluxDB.
CLOUD-FIRST, CLOUD ACCREDITED
CJC has a detailed ‘cloud-first’ policy and leverages Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our partner of choice. CJC are Google Cloud Partners, with staff trained and accredited as Site Reliability Engineers (SRE). CJC also works with other providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Although we look to the cloud first, CJC provides impartial advice on whether the cloud is best suited for your needs. Our consultants will not recommend the cloud if it will cause multicast, latency or fairness issues.
CLOUD HOSTED SERVICES
DACS AS A SERVICE
The LSEG Refinitiv Data Access Control Server (DACS) is a critical element of market data management. DACS provides entitlement and control around market data, alongside reporting to its users, vendors and exchanges on costs and usage.
Many CJC clients benefit from our hosted DACS cloud service, especially those who require the system to permission data to 3rd parties such as execution and order management providers and inventory management systems.
RTDS, SOLACE AND KAFKA
As a managed service provider that supports specialist and off-the-shelf messaging systems like Refintiv RTDS, Solace and Kafka, CJC also provides these platforms as part of our managed service from CJC's own cloud environments in GCP.
ITRS as a Service
An ITRS Geneos managed service is a baseline CJC service. CJC can immediately orchestrate global cloud ITRS architectures in seconds, handle software upgrades from server to probe, as well as write and tune the platform for your own requirements. CJC utilises cloud focused ITRS plugins and samplers such as:
- All major cloud providers supported.
- Docker.
- Kubernetes.
- JMX plugin.
- Google Stack Driver.
Case Studies
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HOLISTIC MONITORING TOOLS IN DEMAND
RAPID CRITICAL ISSUE IDENTIFICATION
DASHBOARD VISUALIZATION
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CUSTOMIZABLE AND INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS
INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS AND ROBUST SEARCHES
How mosaicOA can help with capacity management
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FOR THE WORLDS MOST VOLATILE IT INFRASTRUCTURES
Capital markets IT systems are difficult to provide capacity management for. Systems are co-located in region and close to both the end-user and the exchanges. The systems are mainly utilized in ‘market hours’ Monday to Friday. During market hours, the systems handle the demands of users and data based on global financial impacting events. At any given moment, the system could have a 250% increase in usage. Outside of these market hours, these systems are essentially static. This vastly contrasting behaviour creates great challenges for capacity managers, IT executives and support teams who have to accurately predict their systems future health and stability. This can lead to both outages and costs to the over or under specification of a system. MosaicOA was designed to handle these demands like no other IT analytics system on the market.
INDEFINITE STORAGE FOR SHORT AND LONG TERM ANALYSIS
The cost-effective and indefinite storage of mosaicOA ensures that the entire server’s lifespan is recorded from the moment it is switched on to the day it’s retired; key CPU, Network, OS or application statistics are recorded. You can review the entire lifespan in seconds or compare the behaviour today to yesterday, last week or last month. This provides accurate projections on the upcoming behaviour be it later today or for the next 12 months. Mosaic comes with capabilities to remove non-market hours which is proven to add 30% accuracy to its results. Mosaic was able to predict Covid-19 volatility behaviours 2 weeks in advance.
BUILT-IN DATA SCIENCE
A major feature of Mosaic is its ability to perform data science and advanced sorting techniques. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), mosaicOA continually reviews your servers, providing a rating ‘temperature’ which identifies the servers undergoing a sudden utilization shift. This machine led approach cannot be achieved through standard IT monitoring or human-led analytics. You can find out which servers and applications are over-utilized before they crash.
VISUALIZATIONS DESIGNED BY THE INDUSTRIES BEST
FASTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE PROBLEM MANAGEMENT IT executives and their support teams are responsible for the uptime of varied platforms, infrastructures and applications in the capital markets; they need to ensure they are “always-on” against strict SLAs and KPIs. Outages cause severe impacts and costs to businesses.
How mosaicOA can help with problem management
FASTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE PROBLEM MANAGEMENT
IT executives and their support teams are responsible for the uptime of varied platforms, infrastructures and applications in the capital markets; they need to ensure they are “always-on” against strict SLAs and KPIs. Outages cause severe impacts and costs to businesses.
Traditional tooling, such as IT monitoring only goes so far, especially while hundreds of thousands of IT events and metrics are created every hour. By storing these IT events and metrics, mosaicOA provides IT teams incredible power to understand real infrastructure behaviour.
Out of the box, mosaicOA can connect to your IT monitoring systems and restful APIs and store your IT metrics and events to a powerful, time-series database; ideal for the demands of IT analytics. The data is visualized via a browser-based interface, which puts the executives and support teams in the driving seat.
REPLAY YOUR EVENTS, MANAGE YOUR ISSUE
When issues occur, thousands of event messages come from a multitude of systems in a matter of seconds - this floods support teams with information. The storage of this data, against an accurate timestamp, means the events can be replayed immediately, so engineers can see when and how the event started and its consequential behaviour. This avoids false identification and reduces the mean time to resolution.
IDENTIFY TRENDS TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE
Data science techniques are applied to the events to provide a view of system behaviour unlike any other. Using heatmaps to pull out trends over hours, days, weeks or months, provides IT executives the power to direct their teams’ focus on specific infrastructure or application areas. This level of event understanding is proven to ensure issues are never missed and uptimes are increased.
How mosaicOA can help with reporting
PRE-BUILT DASHBOARDS FOR LEADING PLATFORMS
From Bloomberg BPIPE, Refinitiv RTDS (TREP) and Exegy to Quant House, Kafka and Solace, along with many more, mosaicOA has ready-made dashboards for you and your team.
DATA VISUALIZATION FOR EVERYONE
Typically, IT analytics and data visualization is exclusive for those with advanced development or database query skills but Mosaic is for everyone. Its front end puts you in control of the data and gives you the ability to create dashboards. The browser-based GUI lets users query their data via a drag and drop functionality. Visualizations can be changed with the click of a button, rather than requiring written code or queries. Dashboards can be made from scratch from the powerful workbench. Developers and Database experts still can use their skills however, with the front end providing the access to query the data directly.
EMBEDDED ANALYTICS
Mosaic is designed to be integrated and controlled by third-party applications and systems. Do you need a mosaic visualization in your trader’s workstation? Do you need mosaic on your Intranet/SharePoint/Teams or Salesforce? No problem. Mosaic can be controlled from easy-to-understand URL commands which can be added via a variety of protocols including http, xml, CSS and many more.
AUTOMATED REPORTS AND PDF’S
IT executives demand high-quality reporting. The power of a concise report can be the difference between action and inaction or achieving a recommended IT budget. Operations and Engineering teams need reports to quickly review as part of weekly scrum meetings. Mosaic comes with an easy-to-use reporting template to export the visualizations into a PDF. Once the template is completed, the reports can be scheduled or run on-demand.
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— Joshua Carroll, Global Head of Shared Application Services at Financial Services Company
— Joshua Carroll, Global Head of Shared Application Services at Financial Services Company
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