Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud infrastructure is booming now — everyone has his own opinion. Even the most skeptical ones have at least tried hosting things with clouds. Using cloud services like Foursquare or Salesforce is a commonplace now.
Managed secure cloud hosting for financial services companies has its own implications on how things should work. Those implications first of all cover three major things — security, reliability and latencies.
Cloud Hosting Services
Security of managed cloud hosting is pretty much similar to that of dedicated hosting offered by dedicated; or VPS/VDS; or hybrid solutions hosting providers or resellers. Virtualization technologies and security measures taken by Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft, Google or HP (or any other brand name cloud hosting solutions firm) are not different from what traditional hosting providers now offer. OS security and all systems setup are still keys to the unbreakable anti-theft defense. On the other hand, the one who gets physical access to the dedicated servers’ environment gets access to the data. This is not the case with cloud hosting. Even understanding across how many machines a virtual server is spread is not easy. Getting physical access to those machines is even harder.
Reliability is a key to mission critical systems and SaaS solutions since uptime is money. In traditional environments reliability is often achieved by hosting the solution in several geographical zones with several providers. Using different access providers and enabling failover between the systems is also essential. This significantly raises costs of hosting in the traditional hosting case. With Amazon Web Services cloud solutions failover can be achieved using internal mechanisms without additional development, using virtually a couple of clicks. Moreover, you will only pay for backup servers when they are active, which means that the main one is either inaccessible or the data is being replicated.
Low Latency Trading
Latencies are also a point of pain for capital markets software solutions. Here we must clearly think of two different latencies — the software ones and the connectivity ones. Connectivity latencies can be decreased only by moving the servers as close to the execution or market data as possible. Software latencies are a matter of quality of software and cloud computing infrastructure capacities. Speaking of distributed software solutions — it is always important to provide for low latencies between system components and that is where AWS comes handy with private clouds, where latencies between the servers are extremely low.
Public Cloud Hosting Services
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud environment. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven cloud computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.
Apart from that, ETNA Software provides the while range of custom development for cloud infrastructure using all the powers of Amazon Web Services, such as: content delivery, database storage, networking, payments and content storage. For more info please call us
Secure Private Cloud Hosting
Built on dedicated, branded servers running VMware, these environments are protected by your dedicated Rackspace firewalls. They are designed to provide you with the best Cloud Managed Hosting.
So, the most important benefits of the Secure Cloud — resource and budget optimization with rapid scaling up or down — can be had with the higher security and improved reliability of a Rackspace Managed Hosting Solution.
And the best part is, you don’t have to invest in or build and manage your own Enterprise class private cloud to make it happen. We make it happen for you from the data center, to the network, to the VMs. All the nonstop work — purchasing the components and licenses, configuring your Private Cloud, patching operating systems and troubleshooting issues whenever they pop up — is taken care of on our end.
Host your cloud solutions with us
Our experts will tailor and create a custom environment for hosting your solutions — not necessarily created by us. That can be either any enterprise cloud software or a public web cloud hosting. Don’t hesitate to call us
