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capital market firms want to be in the cloud

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Over of financialmarket survey participantswill increase infrastructure spend from 1% to 6%.*

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*SOURCE: Bob’s Guide, Ovum 2014 Survey

55% said it would go up due to increased reporting to regulators.

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Firms or financial institutions that are more advanced in their risk management and compliance infrastructure will be better able to take advantage of market developments.SOURCE: Deloitte, “2014 Capital Markets Outlook: Repositioning for Growth”

57% of financial market survey participants said their budget would increase to enable compliance.

Today’s capital markets firms are being challenged like never before. Escalating marketplace complexity and volatility require complicated real-time analytics to uncover new opportunities. Ever-increasing regulations and compliance reporting, exploding volumes of data and the drive to automate back-office processes is putting a strain on IT infrastructure and profitability. Retaining customer loyalty in this highly competitive environment is critical. Risk has never been higher, and neither have regulatory fines.

When fortunes can change in a nanosecond, high-performance computing (HPC) is not an option. It’s a must. How can capital markets firms drive IT performance up, while keeping costs down?

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Marketplace Advantageof asset managers claim replacing manual processes with automated technology is the most important back-office goal during the next two years.SOURCE: Wall Street and Technology, “Survey Shows an Urgency to Automate the Back Office,” October 29, 2014

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• Speed up analytics and trade processing to make better decisions, faster• Efficiently drive operational performance up while keeping costs down• Help improve client service and loyalty• Increase profitability and gain faster

ROI by supporting new applications that can reduce costs

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• Ensure 24/7 integrity, accuracy and availability of critical data

• Easily and accurately manage compliance reporting • Satisfy IT standards set for the Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ)

LOCK DOWN COMPLIANCE AND REPORTING

• Easily scale to accommodate expanding operational requirements

• Perform real-time market analysis, risk analytics and portfolio calculations to assess financial exposure and credit risk before finalizing transactions• Mine for new market opportunity and growth• Provide a solid, scalable infrastructure with ample computing power capable of supporting future data growth and growing demands on networks and storage

MANAGE, PROCESS AND ANALYZE VAST VOLUMES OF DATA

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ahead of the competition Capital markets firms require an IT infrastructure that delivers speed, efficiency and flexible scalability from end to end. CDW’s financial services experts and HPC technology solutions and supporting services can help you:

CDW helped get the right people to talk to me. Their vertical knowledge was the big value add .SONNY BAILLARGEON Chief Technology Officer Pico Quantitative Trading

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• Provide a real-time view of operations • Break down silos to integrate risk management and compliance • Maintain investor and regulator

confidence

TIGHTEN RISK MANAGEMENT

Download our white paper, “Trading Up,” and learn how Pico Quantitative Trading, a multi-asset trading service, chose CDW and HPC technology to help its business grow. CDW.com/casestudyhpc

CDW Financial Services gets capital marketsCDW supports more than 7500 U.S. capital markets firms with the industry’s broadest and deepest technology solutions and services. Your dedicated CDW Financial Services account team can help assess and create a powerful IT infrastructure that supports strategies focused on low latency, global market integration and visibility, customer service, competition and risk management.

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CDW Financial Services’ HPC offerings include technologies such as InfiniBand architecture, 10-Gigabit Ethernet switching, solid-state memory, high-availability/high-volume storage, high-performance servers and power management systems.

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77%CYBERSECURITYCapital markets firms must protect their most confidential information at all times and maintain 24/7 access to ensure regulatory compliance. CDW Financial Services can help by making sure that your sensitive data runs securely inside and outside your financial organization with data loss prevention (DLP), defense in depth, mobility security, penetration testing and disaster recovery solutions and services.

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CLOUD COMPUTINGWhen it comes to cloud computing, capital markets firms can benefit from a combination of software and computing delivered on demand, as a service. CDW Financial Services can help boost your agility through rapid deployment and scalability, improve cost structure by turning capital expenses into predictable operating expenses, and increase productivity and collaboration through ease of management and highly accessible data and applications. Our cloud offerings are available in Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service.

of capital markets firms are considering using the cloud.SOURCE: OneMarketData Cloud Adoption Survey

increase in detected security incidents in 20148%

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increase in financial losses associated24%

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ASSESSMENT/PLANNING/DESIGN

Up-front consulting and collaboration to assess your current IT infrastructure,

and then mapping a customized HPC strategy to meet your unique IT infrastructure solution requirements.

INSTALLATION/DEPLOYMENT

Our expert engineering and implementation support team can help you get your HPC

solution up and running.

CONFIGURATION

CDW experts can pre-assemble hardware and software components to ensure your

solution is ready to deploy upon arrival.

NETWORK ASSESSMENT

Our CDW team of experts can help you jump-start your next network

optimization project, beginning with a network audit to determine the best

strategy to meet your network goals.

PRODUCT LIFECYCLE SUPPORT

Whether you need assistance with staffing and training, maintenance contracts

agreements, extended warranties or more to protect your IT investment over time, CDW is with you every step of the way.

Always at your service Your dedicated CDW Financial Services account manager is here to guide you to the latest HPC solution for IT infrastructure optimization and cost containment. We can also help you with services that span:

Download CDW Financial Services’ comprehensive white paper to find out how an HPC solution can help your firm accelerate trading, risk analysis and other financial services apps.

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EXPERT Q&A

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Jonathan Hunter CDW FINANCIAL SERVICES EXECUTIVE ACCOUNT MANAGER

How are you helping your capital markets customers stay ahead of the curve to address and anticipate their HPC needs?Today, it is essential for lines of businesses, developers and IT infrastructure personnel to work together to solve HPC challenges, develop a plan to process data and problems across highly paralyzed applications, then implement a hardware solution that can scale appropriately. Speed is critical through every step of this process.

CDW can add real value in these three key areas:

1. Creating open dialogue that starts with the application needs and demands.

2. Architecting hardware solutions that meet those demands.

3. Navigating the manufacturer’s internal technical resources to deliver the right resource to support HPC expertise discussions. This can really fast track when building the right solution.

What are the top three considerations for capital markets firms when scaling up their infrastructure for HPC?The three most important things for capital markets firms to consider when scaling up:

1. Understand the application and determine whether it scales horizontally (shared memory) or vertically (distributed memory).

2. Understand the limitations around bandwidth and latency constraints, and then identify the best hardware and solutions to help mitigate those constraints.

3. Build a foundation that can scale and deliver results for the line of business, developers and finance for each client.

What HPC technologies are capital markets firms taking a closer look at these days? What’s the next “big innovation” around the corner?In capital markets, knowledge is power. So, understanding the data better allows you to input and improve your application and provide better data analytics, which leads us to the next big innovation — the ability to process information from multiple data sources to provide better risk analysis. The payoff is improved profits.

your IT infrastructure with leading-edge HPC technology“Capital markets firms today need to reassess their HPC requirements given an increased reliance on data analytics and predictive modeling with complex algorithms. These capabilities are driving a greater need for a scaled up compute, network and storage IT infrastructure that can handle more memory-intensive workloads.”

Dejan Kusalovic, Marketing Director, Financial Services Vertical, Intel®

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HP DL380 Gen 9 Server Six-Core E5-2609v3 1.9GHzCDW 3466969

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• Processor: Intel® Xeon E5-2609v3 (1.9GHz/6-core)

• Latest performance and expandability in the HP 2P rack portfolio

• Reliability, serviceability and near- continuous availability, backed by a comprehensive warranty, making it ideal for any server environment

• Memory: 8GB (1x8GB) • Hard drive: None ship standard

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24-PORT MANAGED RACK-MOUNTABLE SWITCH

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EMC® XtremIO™ Enterprise Storage Array CDW 3227160

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• Scalable — as a scale-out design, can reach very high performance levels by creating clusters of multiple X-Bricks, so the system outperforms all dual-controller offerings

• Consistent — evenly distributing data across all SSDs for all volumes means every volume gets the full performance potential of the array all the time because all I/O leverages all controllers and all SSDs

• Inherently load balanced — as clusters grow, data is always balanced across all controllers and SSDs

• Requires no tuning — you don’t have to plan for RAID levels, drive groups, stripe sizes, LUN to RAID-group mappings, etc. to achieve maximum performance

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Cisco® Catalyst® 2960S-24PS-L CDW 2029885

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• Provides improved ease of use, highly secure operations, improved sustainability and a borderless network experience

• Switch includes Cisco® FlexStack switch stacking capability with 1Gb and 10Gb connectivity

• Fixed-configuration access switch designed for various sized networks to provide lower total cost of ownership

Emulex® OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network AdapterCDW 2377663

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• Single-chip, high-performance 10Gbps Ethernet product family

• Provides network and storage connectivity with multifunction server adapters

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