公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
- Asia
- Europe
国家
- Other
- United States
产品
- nGenius Solution
- InfiniStream appliances
技术栈
- Oracle database
- Citrix-based applications
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 分析与建模 - 实时分析
- 网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件
适用行业
- 金融与保险
适用功能
- 商业运营
用例
- 预测性维护
- 实时定位系统 (RTLS)
服务
- 数据科学服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
客户是一家领先的行业指数期权交易公司,也是交易所交易基金最大的流动性提供商之一。该公司在美国、欧洲和亚洲设有办事处,专注于交易、投资银行、私募股权、风险投资、机构销售和研究。它是北美最大的期权做市商之一,是领先的行业指数期权交易公司,也是交易所交易基金最大的流动性提供商之一。该公司拥有 1100 名交易员,高度重视技术,以在快速变化、日益自动化的市场交易行业中保持竞争力,在这个行业中,任何网络中断都可能意味着利润损失、客户不满意,甚至潜在的诉讼。该公司使用最先进的基础设施,包括 1500 多台服务器;Oracle® 数据库环境;基于 Citrix® 的应用程序;支持消息传递中间件和市场数据服务的全球分布式 WAN;以及现代化的 10,000 平方英尺数据中心。
挑战
这家行业领先的指数期权交易公司和交易所交易基金最大的流动性提供商之一正面临网络性能方面的挑战。网络经常出现流量爆发,导致重新传输和交易速度延迟。他们现有的历史报告工具仅提供五分钟或十五分钟的平均值,无法提供所需的粒度来查看这些峰值发生的时间和地点,或确定这些阈值违规的原因。此外,故障排除既繁琐又令人沮丧,因为该工具只能按需捕获数据包,很难实时捕获间歇性问题。对市场数据交易的毫秒级可视性的需求促使他们永久地在关键位置安装仪表,以提供统一的端到端方法来评估应用程序性能和延迟问题。
解决方案
为了应对这些挑战,网络运营团队开始寻找一种解决方案,当关键应用程序和链接达到峰值阈值时,该解决方案可以提供亚秒级警报,并持续捕获和存储数据包,以便追溯问题重建。经过广泛的搜索,该公司购买了 nGenius® 解决方案,以确保其交易员获得成功所需的响应时间。nGenius 解决方案不仅提供了必要的一分钟粒度和毫秒峰值报告间隔,而且还提供了物理和虚拟电路利用率的微突发警报。在初始部署中,运营团队选择在其数据中心和最活跃的业务位置战略性地放置几台 InfiniStream® 设备来装备其专用 WAN。购买的 InfiniStream 设备配置了 8TB 热插拔、冗余电源和驱动器选项,可实现 24x7 连续数据包捕获和回溯分析。
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