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How to bring Capacity Planning practices into the Big Data age
The Facts: Did you know the typical data centre server only operates at 12 to 18 percent of its capacity?[1] This is staggeringly low, but technical staff who are managing and maintaining large data centres are more concerned with keeping the lights on than worrying about ef
Reducing Reputational Risk in Trading Systems
It took just 30 minutes for Knight Capital to lose a staggering $440 million because of glitches in newly deployed code. The catastrophe in 2012 became the infamous poster child of the perilous reputational consequences of poorly monitored trading infrastructure.
Insights into capacity management & planning
Analysts have estimated that 30% of outages are caused by lack of capacity and that globally there is $30 Bn of over spend on IT capacity. The issue is how to find the ‘hot spots’ and the ‘cold spots’. Capacity Planning and Management is the first logical step to making sure that your business doesn’t become a number in those statistics.
ITRS Insights Capacity Planner Launch
ITRS has been well-known in the financial world for its infrastructure and applications monitoring tool Geneos for over 20 years. But with continued developments in capacity management, the firm has diversified its technology.
How NPS is changing ITRS
At ITRS, one of our key company values – do the right thing, not the easy thing – reinforces the old cliché that there are some things you just can’t rush.
Explaining ITRS Geneos to a newbie
What does Geneos do? As a new starter at ITRS I have spent the last couple of weeks submerged in the world of Infrastructure and Applications Monitoring Systems for Finance.
Monitoring the monitoring
IT Monitoring is about ensuring the availability of business services by checking, at regular intervals, the underlying IT estate which enables said service. The estate may include infrastructure (hardware, networks, storage), middleware, databases, applications, as well as end-user monitoring.
Attracting order flow in an unbundled world
In the wake of MiFID II’s mandate to unbundle research and execution services, the research industry has received a lot of attention. Will the buy-side expand internal research functions? How will sell-side teams differentiate themselves?