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The more fexible, less expensive way to build andmaintain trading inrastructure

You need a ast and reliable low-latency trading inrastructure, or a high-perorming server

platorm or pre and post-trade analytics, to support your trading strategies and meet the

demands o your clients. You don’t need the capital expenses, inexibility, data integration

and maintenance burdens o traditional colocated solutions. NYSE Technologies created

Compute On Demand or frms like yours.

Compute On Demand is a managed solution optimized or colocated trading environments,

built by people who understand the dynamics o the markets. It is available in both physica

and virtual editions, both o which are connected to the SFTI® Network. That provides you

rapid provisioning o access to the global capital markets, historical and real-time market

data, and technology services that enable trading innovations. Compute On Demand supplieeverything needed on which to run your applications, allowing you to ocus your time and

energy on the eorts that drive the proftability o your frm.

FAST FACTS

What is it?Compute On Demand is a ully managed,

colocated computing inrastructure with

access to a range o trading services over

the SFTI® network. It is available in both

“physical” and “virtual” editions.

Who is it for?

Compute On Demand is or banks, broker-

dealers, market makers, and buy-side frms

seeking to leverage NYSE Technologies

inrastructure and expertise, to reduce the

costs o a highly exible, low-latency trading

inrastructure.

What does it provide?

Compute On Demand Physical Edition

provides clients with rapid access to

ready-or-trading, ully managed computing

hardware, pre-provisioned with operating

system, network connectivity, and storage;

the Virtual Edition oers all the same with

the ability or clients to sel-provision virtual

machines in a ‘cloud-like’ manner. Together,

they orm the inrastructural basis o NYSE

Technologies Capital Markets Community

Platorm.

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Business Applications

Connectivity

Colocation/Hosting

Compute & Storage

OS/Hypervisor Yours to install,

operate and

manage

Provisioned and

Managed as a

Service by NYX

Your Inrastructure As A Service

NYSE TECHNOLOGIES

Compute OnDemand



BUSINESS CHALLENGES COMPUTE ON DEMAND SOLUTIONS

Reducing time to market:

It can take a long time to work through your frm’s procurement

systems to get equipment purchased and installed. Adding new

services can then take weeks.

Rapid start-up and expansion:

All equipment is pre-provisioned, reducing startup times rom

several months to a couple o weeks. New SFTI services can be

added in days.

Cutting the cost of a low-latency infrastructure:

Building your own low-latency trading inrastructure requires

large capital investments.

No capital expense required:

With Compute On Demand, NYSE Technologies owns the

inrastructure. You simply access as much o it as you need,

either virtually or by leasing a server.

Adapting to rapidly changes needs:

Building and maintaining your own inrastructure requires

long-term commitments to a set amount o capacity. Adding, or

subtracting, servers is neither cheap nor easy.

Highly scalable solutions:

Both the physical and virtual editions oer low-cost base

packages that can be easily and quickly ramped up to meet

increased demand. Additional storage is available rom via a fberattached EMC SAN.

Keeping hardware and software up to date:

It takes a lot o time and technical expertise to research and

build out a low-latency trading environment. Keeping that

inrastructure current may then involve negotiating a lengthy

internal procurement process.

State-of –the-art equipment:

NYSE Technologies takes ull responsibility or building,

upgrading and maintaining a state-o-the-art trading

inrastructure.

Retaining the expertise to maintain infrastructure:

A large and dedicated operational group is required to

maintain and monitor all aspects o a trading solution, at all

hours o the day and night.

24/7 maintenance and monitoring:

NYSE provides management and monitoring o the hardware,

network, operating system stack, and storage backed by our 24x7

Service Desk. Our market data and order entry expertise provides

unrivaled support.

Maintaining a secure platform:

Making sure that your inrastructure supports a sae and secure

trading platorm requires a signifcant expertise

and constant vigilance.

World Class Security:

Hosted in Tier 4-guided, highly-secure data centers, NYSE

updates all network components and server operating systems

with approved security patches. NYSE Technologies’ Inormation

Security team’s primary goal is to ensure that the SFTI network is

protected against threats.”

Compute On Demand addresses your undamental business challenges



Markets:•NYSE Markets

•Broker Dark Pools

•Complementary Markets

Network:

•SFTI

•Liquidity Center Network

Market Data

•Consolidated Tape A

Feed

•OPRA

•Trade and Quote Data

Applications:

•SuperFeed

•Risk ManagementGateway

•FIX Marketplace

•Third Party

Computing

•Colocation

•Compute On Demand

Simplifed access to a broad range o services

Compute On Demand is pre-provisioned, providing rapid access to the entire NYSE Technologies Capital Markets Community Platorm,

with its secure, high perormance, low-latency services and the accessibility o NYSE Technologies’ regulated, transparent service model.

New services can typically be added in a matter o days in the Physical Edition, and minutes in the Virtual Edition. And because wemaintain an open platorm, you can choose rom best-in-class products and services rom third-party vendors as well as those rom NYSE

Technologies:

•NYSETechnologiesSuperFeedwhichconsolidatesquoteandtradeinformationfromaroundtheworld.

•NYSETechnologiesRiskManagementGatewaywhichofferspre-traderiskcontrols.

•NYSETechnologiesFIXMarketplacefortraderorderroutingandliquiditydiscoveryopportunities

Whatever you choose to power your trading strategies, Compute On Demand makes it easy to integrate.

Building a Financial Community

• Away Markets

• Remote Sites

Mahwah Data Center

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Colocation

Markets

Market Data

Applications

Compute On Demand



Compute On Demand Choices Offer Exceptional Flexibility

To meet the diverse needs o the global trading community, NYSE Technologies oers

Compute On Demand in physical and virtual editions. While both editions greatly reduce the

time, cost and hassles o maintaining a low-latency trading inrastructure, each approach

has its unique strengths:

Physical Edition:

Excels in situations where microseconds count. Because your applications run on your own

dedicated server, the perormance you experience is highly predictable.

Virtual Edition:

Provides the utmost exibility to quickly add the ully provisioned computing power required

to test your strategies, process large volumes o data or meet the trading needs o many

frms. By partnering with industry leaders VMware and EMC, NYSE Technologies provides its

client community the most secure, reliable and scalable fnancial services cloud computing

environment available.

NYSE TECHNOLOGIES

Compute OnDemand

About NYSE Technologies

NYSE Technologies is the integrator o the

capital markets community, providing the

products and services that make it easier

or our clients to beneft rom the world’s

most vibrant capital markets community.

We provide comprehensive transaction, dat

and inrastructure services and managed

solutions or buy-side, sell-side and exchan

communities that require next-generation

perormance and expertise or mission

critical and value added client services. We

are dedicated to promoting a broader, aire

and more transparent marketplace.

Find Out More

Email [email protected] or

visit http://nysetechnologies.nyx.com.

MARKET

PARTICIPANT

BUSINESS

PROBLEM

VIRTUAL

EDITION

SERVICES

PHYSICAL

EDITION

SERVICES

HOW IT WILL THIS

BENEFIT THE

FIRM?

Agency Broker Rapid provisioning o

services or hedge-und

traders

n/a Low-latency Mar-

ket Data, Risk

Managed Market

Access

Higher customer

satisaction; less ‘non-

trading’ time; lower cost

Investment Bank Processing large volumes

o market data or

regulatory reports

Compute Power;

Historical Market

Data; Hosted DB

n/a Reduced WAN band-

width utilization; more

rapid reporting; less

inrastructure required

Low-latency

Hedge Fund

Temporary requirement

or large compute arm

to test and validate

strategies

Virtualized, Elastic

Computing Power;

Historical Market

Data

n/a Improved strategy

testing; signifcantly

lower cost

All size o

Financial

Services frms

Testing custom devel-

oped applications re-

quires large server arm

ComputePower;

Real-time Market

Data

Small-scale test-

ing beore major

roll-out

Exact replicas o

production servers can

be started and stopped,

On Demand

FEATURES

The Physical Edition is leased on a per-server basis

Hardware High-end blade system running Intel Xeon processorsOperating systems LINUX Red Hat 5.5, or Microsot Windows Server 2008 R2 (both in 64-bit architecture)

Local Storage Each blade is equipped with 300 gigabytes o mirrored hard-drive storage.

Additional Storage: Storage Area Network (SAN) access – rom one terabyte up.

FEATURES

The Virtual offering is a package of computing ability that can be accessed on an as-needed basis.

Base package 96 gigabytes o RAM and 1/2 TB o storageCloud Management vCloud Director supplied by VMware

Cloud Storage capability Networked storage supplied by EMC

Cost-effective solutions to real world problems

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