ITRS providing better visibility for Exchanges

Increased competition and regulation continue to change the exchange landscape, encouraging participants to develop faster and more responsive services to attract order flow and maintain liquidity. Profitability will depend on the exchanges’ ability to deliver a reliable and effective service to all its clients. This means gaining real-time visibility into multiple operational process and technology infrastructures in order to gain the control to analyse and mitigate risk.

Key Benefits

Geneos provides key systems and controls to enable the operations team to continuously monitor and control all aspects of exchange services, from the health of the underlying technology and network infrastructure through to message queues and potential outage situations
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You will get increased visibility with early warnings of likely system problems before the underlying events become critical – providing you with vital time to implement remedial action
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From one central point you can see how well your systems are supporting the underlying transaction processes providing key performance information for multiple audiences. Rules can be implemented, quickly and easily, to check that key reporting processes are being completed on time and SLAs are being met - alerting management to problems while there is still time to react

NSX Case Study

Geneos from ITRS provides real time performance management and monitoring across NSX’s environment: servers, switches, routers, carrier lines, important network interfaces and applications.

NSX is able to meet their speed, price and service objectives in a post Reg NMS era and accommodate a broad range of users.

NSX trade volume rose from approximately 103 million shares per day in 2007 to approximately 369 million per day in 2008. This growth has been supported without an increase in operation headcount.

ITRS enterprise management
framework has provided a
platform for bringing new
low latency client services to
market, further differentiating
NSX from its competition.

Download the NSX case study

See more – without impacting latency

Adding instrumentation to exchange processes without impacting latency targets and system performance is becoming increasingly important - Here are four examples of what Geneos can do to help:

Geneos checks message latency between designated application process steps, identifies out-of-normal patterns and sends out alerts to operations teams, exchange management and clients.
Verifies that the appropriate order management applications are running on their designated servers.
Checks that the application platforms themselves are not consuming unexpectedly high amounts of CPU and memory resource.
At various points the exchange processes should be making audit entries in log files: Geneos can check the contents of these and that they are actually taking place.

For further information on improving exchange performance download the ITRS Geneos overview

If you have questions or would like to find out more please email Mark Schaberg at mschaberg@itrsgroup.com