When failure is not an option
First Published in Automated Trader Magazine Issue 13 Q2 2009
How do you prevent systemic failures in high-performance trading infrastructures? We called in Rob Ciampa, Vice President, Product Management at Tervela.
Today's competitive environment leaves little room for operational mishaps, yet the foundation of the trading business - technology - is more susceptible than ever to failure. Mission-critical, high-performance trading infrastructures remain extremely vulnerable to constituent failures, while burgeoning complexity and increasing system co-dependencies exacerbate risk and time-to-resolution.
My objective with this article is to examine key technology hazards and then to explain...
