NYSE TECHNOLOGIES

Compute On
Demand

The more flexible, less expensive way to build and

maintain trading infrastructure
You need a fast and reliable low-latency trading infrastructure, or a high-performing server
platform for pre and post-trade analytics, to support your trading strategies and meet the
demands of your clients. You don’t need the capital expenses, inflexibility, data integration
and maintenance burdens of traditional colocated solutions. NYSE Technologies created
Compute On Demand for firms like yours.

Compute On Demand is a managed solution optimized for colocated trading environments,

built by people who understand the dynamics of the markets. It is available in both physical
and virtual editions, both of which are connected to the SFTI® Network. That provides you
FAST FACTS rapid provisioning of access to the global capital markets, historical and real-time market
data, and technology services that enable trading innovations. Compute On Demand supplies
What is it?
everything needed on which to run your applications, allowing you to focus your time and
Compute On Demand is a fully managed,
energy on the efforts that drive the profitability of your firm.
colocated computing infrastructure with
access to a range of trading services over
the SFTI® network. It is available in both
“physical” and “virtual” editions. Your Infrastructure As A Service
Who is it for?
Compute On Demand is for banks, broker-
dealers, market makers, and buy-side firms Yours to install, Business Applications
seeking to leverage NYSE Technologies
operate and
infrastructure and expertise, to reduce the
costs of a highly flexible, low-latency trading manage
infrastructure. OS/Hypervisor
What does it provide?
Compute On Demand Physical Edition Provisioned and Compute & Storage
provides clients with rapid access to
Managed as a
ready-for-trading, fully managed computing
hardware, pre-provisioned with operating Service by NYX Colocation/Hosting
system, network connectivity, and storage;
the Virtual Edition offers all the same with
the ability for clients to self-provision virtual
Connectivity
machines in a ‘cloud-like’ manner. Together,
they form the infrastructural basis of NYSE
Technologies Capital Markets Community
Platform.

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Compute On Demand addresses your fundamental business challenges
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Reducing time to market:
It can take a long time to work through your firm’s procurement
systems to get equipment purchased and installed. Adding new
services can then take weeks.
Cutting the cost of a low-latency infrastructure:
Building your own low-latency trading infrastructure requires
large capital investments.
Adapting to rapidly changes needs:
Building and maintaining your own infrastructure requires
long-term commitments to a set amount of capacity. Adding, or
subtracting, servers is neither cheap nor easy.
Keeping hardware and software up to date:
It takes a lot of time and technical expertise to research and
build out a low-latency trading environment. Keeping that
infrastructure current may then involve negotiating a lengthy
internal procurement process.
Retaining the expertise to maintain infrastructure:
A large and dedicated operational group is required to
maintain and monitor all aspects of a trading solution, at all
hours of the day and night.
Maintaining a secure platform:
Making sure that your infrastructure supports a safe and secure
trading platform requires a significant expertise
and constant vigilance.
COMPUTE ON DEMAND SOLUTIONS
Rapid start-up and expansion:
All equipment is pre-provisioned, reducing startup times from
several months to a couple of weeks. New SFTI services can be
added in days.
No capital expense required:
With Compute On Demand, NYSE Technologies owns the
infrastructure. You simply access as much of it as you need,
either virtually or by leasing a server.
Highly scalable solutions:
Both the physical and virtual editions offer low-cost base
packages that can be easily and quickly ramped up to meet
increased demand. Additional storage is available from via a fiber
attached EMC SAN.
State-of –the-art equipment:
NYSE Technologies takes full responsibility for building,
upgrading and maintaining a state-of-the-art trading
infrastructure.
24/7 maintenance and monitoring:
NYSE provides management and monitoring of the hardware,
network, operating system stack, and storage backed by our 24x7
Service Desk. Our market data and order entry expertise provides
unrivaled support.
World Class Security:
Hosted in Tier 4-guided, highly-secure data centers, NYSE
updates all network components and server operating systems
with approved security patches. NYSE Technologies’ Information
Security team’s primary goal is to ensure that the SFTI network is
protected against threats.”
Simplified access to a broad range of services
Compute On Demand is pre-provisioned, providing rapid access to the entire NYSE Technologies Capital Markets Community Platform,
with its secure, high performance, low-latency services and the accessibility of NYSE Technologies’ regulated, transparent service model.
New services can typically be added in a matter of days in the Physical Edition, and minutes in the Virtual Edition. And because we
maintain an open platform, you can choose from best-in-class products and services from third-party vendors as well as those from NYSE
Technologies:

• NYSE Technologies SuperFeed which consolidates quote and trade information from around the world.

• NYSE Technologies Risk Management Gateway which offers pre-trade risk controls.

• NYSE Technologies FIX Marketplace for trader order routing and liquidity discovery opportunities

Whatever you choose to power your trading strategies, Compute On Demand makes it easy to integrate.

Building a Financial Community Markets:

• NYSE Markets
• Broker Dark Pools
• Complementary Markets
Markets
Compute On Demand Network:
• SFTI
• Liquidity Center Network
High Speed, High I/O Connectivity

• Away Markets
Market Data • Remote Sites

Market Data
Colocation • Consolidated Tape A
Feed
• OPRA
• Trade and Quote Data

Applications Applications:
• SuperFeed
• Risk Management
Gateway
• FIX Marketplace
• Third Party

Computing
Mahwah Data Center • Colocation
• Compute On Demand
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Compute On
Demand

Compute On Demand Choices Offer Exceptional Flexibility

To meet the diverse needs of the global trading community, NYSE Technologies offers
Compute On Demand in physical and virtual editions. While both editions greatly reduce the
time, cost and hassles of maintaining a low-latency trading infrastructure, each approach About NYSE Technologies
has its unique strengths:
NYSE Technologies is the integrator of the
Physical Edition: capital markets community, providing the
products and services that make it easier
Excels in situations where microseconds count. Because your applications run on your own
for our clients to benefit from the world’s
dedicated server, the performance you experience is highly predictable.
most vibrant capital markets community.
FEATURES We provide comprehensive transaction, data
The Physical Edition is leased on a per-server basis
and infrastructure services and managed
Hardware High-end blade system running Intel Xeon processors
solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange
Operating systems LINUX Red Hat 5.5, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (both in 64-bit architecture)
communities that require next-generation
Local Storage Each blade is equipped with 300 gigabytes of mirrored hard-drive storage.
performance and expertise for mission
Additional Storage: Storage Area Network (SAN) access – from one terabyte up.
critical and value added client services. We
are dedicated to promoting a broader, fairer,
Virtual Edition: and more transparent marketplace.
Provides the utmost flexibility to quickly add the fully provisioned computing power required
to test your strategies, process large volumes of data or meet the trading needs of many Find Out More
firms. By partnering with industry leaders VMware and EMC, NYSE Technologies provides its
client community the most secure, reliable and scalable financial services cloud computing Email technologies-salesteam@nyx.com or
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FEATURES
The Virtual offering is a package of computing ability that can be accessed on an as-needed basis.
Base package 96 gigabytes of RAM and 1/2 TB of storage
Cloud Management vCloud Director supplied by VMware
Cloud Storage capability Networked storage supplied by EMC

Cost-effective solutions to real world problems

MARKET BUSINESS VIRTUAL PHYSICAL HOW IT WILL THIS

PARTICIPANT PROBLEM EDITION EDITION BENEFIT THE
SERVICES SERVICES FIRM?
Agency Broker Rapid provisioning of n/a Low-latency Mar- Higher customer
services for hedge-fund ket Data, Risk satisfaction; less ‘non-
traders Managed Market trading’ time; lower cost
Access
Investment Bank Processing large volumes Compute Power; n/a Reduced WAN band-
of market data for Historical Market width utilization; more
regulatory reports Data; Hosted DB rapid reporting; less
infrastructure required
Low-latency Temporary requirement Virtualized, Elastic n/a Improved strategy
Hedge Fund for large compute farm Computing Power; testing; significantly
to test and validate Historical Market lower cost
strategies Data
All size of Testing custom devel- ComputePower; Small-scale test- Exact replicas of
Financial oped applications re- Real-time Market ing before major production servers can
Services firms quires large server farm Data roll-out be started and stopped,
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