Financial Services

Financial Services institutions around the world have learned painful lessons from their first efforts to meet regulatory compliance mandates. Many of the solutions implemented are short term, piecemeal fixes that have created complex, disparate, and expensive to maintain architectures – and significant server sprawl. Consequently, IT personnel cannot focus on their primary function: trying to deliver improved capabilities and services that will drive top line growth.

Timely risk analysis and assurance that asset to risk ratios are in line with regulatory requirements add additional stress to the IT infrastructure as institutions face severe financial penalties upon failure.

Applications affecting regulatory compliance are typically based on the Java™ platform. As such, they are vulnerable to the same performance limitations application pauses, out of memory errors, etc.) that other Java-based applications face when running on traditional server systems.

This unavoidable fact has shifted IT priorities at Financial Services institutions around the world. Forward-thinking technology professionals are urgently seeking new ways to guarantee their most critical Java applications will perform as expected. This includes revenue-generating trading applications – the lifeblood of their business. Trading application with long pause times, poor throughput, or inconsistent responses can translate directly into lower customer satisfaction, lost revenue, or increased costs.

Avoiding these problems and delivering sustained, predictable application response times is a constant challenge of getting the right balance between processing power and memory to your servers. Yet most traditional servers have a processor to memory imbalance that forces customers to scale application instances rather than get more from fewer instances with existing resources. This approach has resulted in significant cost and complexity that can now be avoided through deployment on Azul Compute Appliances.

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Ensuring Sustainable Compliance
Because Azul Compute Appliances deliver faster and more predictable response (lapse) times than before, the bank can now submit regulatory reporting in a more timely fashion and avoid severe financial penalties from government agencies – with up to 50 percent less cost than traditional computing models.

Increasing Trade Volumes & Improving Service Levels Agreements (SLAs)
The Azul solution also offered dramatic improvements in application capacity, increasing trade volumes by 600 percent and significantly reducing response time from 24 seconds to 2 seconds.

Enabling Simple and Cost-Effective Scaling
Since Azul Compute Appliances scale well beyond the limitations of traditional servers, enabling increased business capabilities and services for this customer like ‘money in the bank.’ The Azul solution enabled this financial institution to handle significantly more transactions with fewer instances and less complexity.

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• TrueCredit Case Study »
• Financial Services Case Study »
• Why Memory Matters Feature Study »
• Azul Compute Appliances »

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