FOCUS LEADER
Issue 8, Feb/Mar 10
WALL STREET SMASH
Wall Street is back in the news. As we go to press in late January, the latest gust in the maelstrom of the fallout of the fi nancial crisis is touching major investment decisions by trading exchanges, banks and colocation providers (see pages 24-29)
The affects of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker’s decision to force banks to separate their traditional retail businesses and investment banking arms will send shockwaves through a booming yet nascent industry segment – that of co-hosting at stock exchanges and delivering services to fi nance houses panting to exploit electronic high- frequency trading. The stakes could not be higher.
Major exchanges, such as NYSE Euronext, which is close to commissioning its New Jersey and UK data centers, are preparing to host client hardware. Nasdaq is expanding its capacity through extended deals with Verizon, and the London Stock Exchange might even move its own kit out of its data center to accommodate demand from clients for close physical proximity to its trading platform.
All exchanges are building up services offerings around hosting – from racking and stacking servers and remote hands, to cross connects and faster connectivity between sites, to areas such as low latency market data feeds.
Colocators and carriers are building out entire fi nancial services management suites directly targeted at the trading companies.
The investments already made are huge, and NYSE Euronext’s joint CIO and chief executive of NYSE’s Technologies, Stanley Young, says fi rms are already capacity-planning for what they’ll need 18 months down the line and beyond.
Once again, the data center is at the frontline of world events, and its importance to world commerce continues to grow.
For those already committed to huge investments, the toothpaste is already out of the tube, and the genie is already well and truly out of the bottle.
DatacenterDynamics New York Conference (page 30) takes place on 3 March. It is always a vital event, and with so much at stake across the fi nancial services sector taking a trip to Midtown to see and hear the debates and presentations fi rst-hand has never been so important. ----- A lifetime award
Roger Schmidt, IBM Fellow and M&E thought leader, was “delighted and surprised” to collect the lifetime achievement award for contributions to the industry at our Datacentre Leaders’ Awards in December (see page 16). In an interview with Schmidt following the award, he talked about some of the power and cooling technologies he helped develop, some of the milestones of his career and why the industry still needs educating on cooling.
Ambrose McNevin Editor-in-chief
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