Data centres for financial services

Award-winning hosting services in major financial centres

BT Radianz Hosting is an award-winning set of managed hosting services that delivers an end-to-end managed, secure and reliable infrastructure from data centres enabling applications and services to be distributed to global financial service industry customers.

By choosing to work with a trusted partner, organisations free up internal IT resource to focus on their core business. Our Radianz Hosting service allows you to:

• expand into new markets or asset classes
• give access to clients and services locally
• lower IT infrastructure cost
• decrease hosted infrastructure downtime
• adapt quickly to an ever-changing market environment and maintain scalability
• remove time-consuming and labour intensive administrative overheads and boost higher IT staff productivity
• work with a global partner with financial stability supporting long term customer strategies.

Realise the potential

To improve your end-to-end operational experience, make the best choices of business partner and better manage your infrastructure costs, we have the following recommendations for organisations:

• identify your business partners, customers and prospects globally and assess how and where you wish to deliver service and consume services
• avoid significant hardware and maintenance expenditure
• consider your operational model from a skills, process and cost point of view
• understand your need for service performance, security and privacy
• include your network communication requirements in the mix when considering your cost and operating model.

BT Radianz Hosting offers you end-to-end managed hosting and connectivity services, providing you with:

• low latency: to major execution venues for faster, more precise trading
• expert hosting: gain fully-managed, on-site monitoring of your hosted solution in real-time, at world-class financial hosting and connectivity facilities
• skilled support staff: experienced professionals with unparalleled financial services IT expertise offer you dedicated support for your mission-critical financial applications
• scalability: BT Radianz Hosting is scalable so you can minimise future investment and provides you with the flexibility you need to adopt to ever changing market environments
• reliability: strict service level agreements (SLAs) are designed to for your complete peace of mind.

With BT Radianz Hosting you can choose a variety of service options to suit your needs and is available in BT-owned and non-BT hosting facilities. You can choose from the following range:

• co-location service - provides you with a highly secure, state-of-the-art hosting facility for housing your business-critical servers and applications
• managed network infrastructure - managing and monitoring the LAN/WAN network infrastructure that supports your servers
• enhanced managed service - a premium managed hosting service provides you with holistic management and maintenance to server operating system level. It offers all the features of the managed network infrastructure service and enables you to outsource management and control of your servers - so you can focus on managing your core business
• remote hands service - this is a light-touch equipment service provided by BT engineers to assist you during problem investigation and resolution.

Market Solutions

BT Radianz helps you wherever you operate in the market. Find out more:

• Market data solutions
• Buy side solutions
• Sell-side solution
• Liquidity venue solutions
• Clearing and settlement solutions.