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Performant Cloud Market Data Infrastructure
Cloud Solutions is a vendor-agnostic, cloud-first service for firms in financial services demanding the agility and scalability of cloud-based market data infrastructure. Underpinned by a 24x7x365 global team of SRE-driven market data specialists and supported by sophisticated cloud tools, CJC's managed cloud service provides you with industry-leading best practice expertise and advanced tooling to optimise the success rate of cloud migrations, simplified manageability, and streamlined workloads.
Capabilities
CLOUD CAPABILITIES
Financial Services increasingly embrace cloud computing for its flexibility, agility and scalability benefits. But, the acquisition, migration and cloud management expertise remains a significant challenge for market data IT professionals.
CJC's Cloud Solutions specialise in designing, building (architecture or migration), and operating cloud-based market data environments end-to-end.
PROFESSIONAL CLOUD SERVICES
The cloud's benefits are clear and acquiring the technology has become a priority, but highly regulated industries like financial services are intertwined with complex legacy technologies and could impact migrations with unnecessary outages and costs. CJC's global team of experts have been recognised for their market data expertise in both the cloud and legacy technologies - a blended combination is crucial for successfully adopting cloud capabilities. CJC's SRE-driven teams can help you streamline cloud acquisition time frames and minimise any business disruptions to maximise its success rate, handing over to a cloud-ready team to manage.A MANAGED CLOUD SERVICE
Clients can also leverage CJC's global team of market data specialists beyond migration. Clients are capable of extracting value long-term through the active management and support of the cloud environments to free up in-house capacity for strategic, revenue-generating initiatives.
Applying the same methodology as our technical managed services (Operational Support), clients have the option of leveraging CJC to manage their cloud-based infrastructure and applications. CLOUD ITRS
An ITRS-managed service is a baseline service from CJC. Our award-winning teams can build advanced ITRS setups from the cloud in seconds, handle their own software upgrades from server to probe, as well as write, and tune the platform as required. CJC utilises ITRS plugins in the cloud:- - All major cloud providers supported.
- - Docker.
- - Kubernetes.
- - Rest API.
- - Google Stack Driver.
CLOUD SUPPORT
Operating a 24x7x365 follow-the-sun support model, CJC's global team provides industry-leading cloud-based support, underpinned by SRE principles and a powerful cloud toolset platform. The cloud tooling platform is a powerful management interface to build and maintain your bespoke cloud environment.
CJC can also support a client's infrastructure observability with end-to-end proactive monitoring.
CLOUD TOOLS
CJC's advanced Cloud Tooling has been developed and continuously refined since 2017. It is a powerful application that can streamline cloud migration by weeks, if not months, by enabling high-precision orchestration and control of packaging, deployment and the operation of all activities needed to fulfil ongoing service requests. The Cloud Tools can also deploy complex software and workloads into the cloud within minutes.
CLOUD-FIRST & ACCREDITED
CJC has implemented a detailed ‘cloud-first’ policy, leveraging leading public-cloud service providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure. CJC is a Google Cloud Partner and our teams are accredited as Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) as well as ITIL4. Despite looking to the cloud first, CJC consultants provide impartial advice on whether the cloud is optimal for your needs – we will advise against any cloud deployments if additional latency or unavoidable fairness issues arise.
CLOUD ENABLEMENT
For firms to successfully migrate to the cloud, a blend of cloud and market data expertise is an absolute necessity. There is an array of cloud products and tooling that can be leveraged for real-time data-consuming industries and CJC can provide specialist expertise in:
- - Google Pub Sub+.
- - Big Query.
- - Kubernetes.
- - Azure AKS | Kafka.
- - Amazon SQS.
- - AWS Transit Gateway.
- - Prometheus / InfluxDB.
CLOUD MARKET DATA SPECIALIST
Named "Best Specialist Market Data Consultancy", CJC has supported leading market data providers, exchanges, vendors, investment banks, brokers and other financial institutions for many years. Leveraging a variety of specialist and complex platforms, CJC can offer a managed cloud service specifically for market data consumers.
Using ITRS, CJC can also bring new platforms under management.
DACS AS A SERVICE
The LSEG Refinitiv Data Access Control Server (DACS) is one of the most commonly used technologies in financial services. It provides market data entitlement and control, as well as reporting costs and usage to its users, vendors and exchanges.
Clients can greatly benefit from having DACS in the cloud, especially if you require the system to permission data to 3rd parties such as execution and order management providers, or inventory management systems that are also in the cloud.
RTDS, SOLACE AND KAFKA
As a managed service provider that supports both specialist and off-the-shelf messaging systems (like Refintiv RTDS, Solace and Kafka), CJC's team can also include these as part of our managed service from a proprietary cloud environment in GCP.
CLOUD CYBERSECURITY
The financial services and capital markets industries must follow stringent regulatory demands on how infrastructure is managed and secured, which is frequently audited.
An important requirement of outsourced Managed Service Providers, like CJC, is the ability to support workloads the customer does not strategically want or is not capable of accomplishing effectively in-house. Beyond simply managing client applications and infrastructures, CJC can manage a cloud-based service's IT security elements. Our specialised team ensures the managed service is encrypted from day one with zero-trust policies, leveraging the best security tooling available, and is auditable and reported against.
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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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