CTO of NYSE: Building a safe and efficient financial community cloud

"The financial services industry is evolving and customers are constantly deploying new applications and new technologies." How do you help customers analyze workloads? We found that the first customer needs applications are front-end business units, once we understand this security scalable platform, there will be more requirements to apply this technology to the mid-tier or back-end business units, including risk management business. "John Edwards, chief technology Officer of the Asia Pacific and Japan region of the New York Stock Exchange, describes the value of the cloud in the financial community.

To get a better understanding of the NYSE's financial community cloud, at last week's vForum2011 meeting, the reporter interviewed the chief technical officer of the Greater China region of VMware Zhang Zhenlen, NYSE Asia-Pacific and Japan Regional CTO and Managing director John Edwards, EMC Asia Pacific and Japan Regional Technology director and virtualization expert Scott Drummonds.

▲vmware Company Greater China Technical Director Zhang Zhenlen, NYSE Asia Pacific and Japan Regional Chief technical officer and managing director John Edwards, EMC Asia Pacific and Japan Regional Technical director and virtualization expert Scott Drummonds

What is the financial community cloud?

NYSE is currently building a financial community cloud platform, mainly in the capital market platform to further promote the advisory services, that is, to the customer workload for a comprehensive analysis of customer application needs analysis, such as some of the functions, economic considerations, What are the requirements of trusted operation technology and confidentiality technology in the future, according to the customer's requirements for the cloud computing workload recommendations.

Two major factors in the cloud of the financial community: security and performance

John Edwards said that the cloud to build the financial community to address our entire financial services industry requirements, there are two important factors, one is the security issue, and the other is performance assurance. He also said, "from a security standpoint, first, with our experience in the financial markets, especially in the U.S. and European markets, we now use our own safety nets, called secure financial trading infrastructures, to ensure that our system is safe and reliable, is also high-performance. In terms of performance, the first is to provide a virtual service through the computing resources on demand, and for services that are not highly delayed, there are fixed dedicated server hardware to provide specialized services to some customers. ”

As for why we chose to work with VMware and EMC, John Edwards stressed, "the core of what we do is to respond positively to some of the issues facing our customers." Because customers are currently connected to international capital markets, security, scalability, and cost requirements are high. So we want to create a very secure environment, and the environment should also be scalable, so that customers can put their own applications in our virtual machine structure hosting, save a lot of money. Because VMware and EMC have the technology, we can achieve the benefits of scale operations based on their technology, save a lot of capital expenditure, and keep some of our technical teams. This also helps customers to save money, so that their work focus on business development and business income generation channels. ”

Scott Drummonds added, "VMware and EMC are partners in the NYSE, providing appropriate support in terms of security and performance." In the area of security, VMware VShield is integrated into a virtual environment, providing an unprecedented level of flexibility, with security and policy management linked to virtual machines rather than physical machines. In terms of performance, EMC has also added a tiered-storage technology that can automatically measure the speed and capacity needs of data, speed, speed, and, if data volumes are large, EMC offers very inexpensive disk guarantees. ”