A Talk given by Orbyte entitled "Trading in the Clouds" at the AWS startup event in the UK on the 28th April.

1. Trading in the Cloud
…whilekeepingyourfeet on the ground!
ORbyte Solutions Ltd
Cédric Roll / Francis Otshudi
AWS Startup Tour 2009

2. Aboutus
quot;We leverage our experience in software
development, project delivery and IT
operations to build products and offer services
which enable our customers to gain a
competitive advantage and fully exploit the
potential of their technologyquot;
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3. Aboutus
• Products and services based on:
– Web 2.0
– RIA (Rich Internet Application)
– XTP (eXtreme Transaction Processing)
– Cloud Computing
• Core segments: Retail Brokers, Traders’
communities and financial content providers
• FX platform first version released in January
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4. FX and CFD trading application
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6. Key benefits of Cloud Computing
• “Save for a rainy day”: Cost control for a start-
up
• “The Sky is the limit”: Access to an
infrastructure we just couldn’t afford
otherwise
• “Agile provisioning”
• “Unique Selling Point (USP) enhancer”
– Provide options
– Trading services on demand
– POC and Time to market
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7. OurExperiencein EC2
Gigaspaces EC2 Cloud Tools
•Used to deployourprocessing layer
(pricecalculations, orderprocessing, ri
skcalculations, margins,…)
• XML used to describe the application
and the provisioningrequirements in
EC2
• SSL encryptedremoteaccess to the
instance (NX client)
• Access to the performance monitor
for the grid cluster and individual
server instance
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8. OurExperiencein EC2
S3 Fox - S3 Firefox
Organiser
•Used to get the application
intoour S3 buckets
• Stores ourprivate AMI (for
our web services layer)
•Uploadchart close of
business data into S3
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9. NextSteps
• Performance benchmarks
• Cost benchmarks
• Failover and recovery
• Monitoring
• Security and regulation
• Cloud provider evaluation
• Other Amazon products:
DevPay, MapReduce,...
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10. StayTuned
• www.orbytesolutions.com/register • www.gigaspaces.com/cloud
• +44(0)800 612 7082 • +44(0)207-117-0213
• twitter.com/orbyte • twitter.com/gigaspaces
• info@orbytesolutions.com • info@gigaspaces.com
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