financial services industry has undergone several seismic shifts over the last few years. One of them is a move towards customer-centricity: services that are tailored to the individual customer, which can be consumed how and when they choose.
In the second of our two-part blog series with industry expert Peter Kazella of Pkaza, a 12-year Data Center Facilities recruiter, we discuss what it takes to go live with a newly built data center and what to look out for when building your team in an ultra-tight market.
With GDPR still a prevalent concern across the financial services industry, financial institutions face another major regulatory challenge in the form of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). In the UK alone, the Financial Conduct Authority received 1,335 notifications of inaccurate transaction reporting under (MiFID II during 2018*).
There’s a clear need for a latency standard that can be applied globally across financial institutions. But that’s just one step. The real challenge emerges when you ask why this standard is necessary, and what it means for the future success of your business. Latency is key to your success because if it isn’t perfectly…
Consolidating key facilities like data centers has obvious advantages. Chief amongst these are reduced costs, licensing, energy consumption, and maintenance. But consolidating facilities also consolidates risk. If your single, major global data center goes down, then the company goes down with it. So, how do you decide how to play a consolidated strategy, and put…
How Can Your Network’s Performance Impact Deploying IIoT Technology? Use Panduit’s Insights to Build a Robust Network Foundation for Your IIoT Deployment How can you prepare your network infrastructure to successfully accommodate IIoT technology? Get answers to potential IIoT technology deployment issues that may impact your network infrastructure. For example, here are some questions you…
2018 was a spectacular year for change around the data centre environment. While researching my new paper – ‘Light into Money – The Future of Fibre Optics in Data Centre Networks’, There have been various bubbling under technologies that have broken through and are providing the impetus to some radical cloud environments. Edge Computing –…
The IT industry does an excellent job in advance positioning the next great innovation. We have been just a step away from the internet of things (IoT) for over 20-years, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been around for as long as I can remember, and solid-state memory is set to take over from disk drives and…
Future-proofing facilities while leveraging previous investments A new generation of facilities are being designed and constructed around the globe. A key facility design challenge is ensuring the systems and infrastructure involved will not only deliver new advantage but also function seamlessly with (and add value to) the other parts of a company’s ecosystem, including legacy…
