Software Vendor
Enterprise hosting with direct market access in key trading centres
Options Full-Service Software Hosting
Options has unrivalled experience with hosting complex financial software on the PIPE platform for delivery to PIPE customers and other third parties alike. The Options PIPE® platform removes the barrier of installing and supporting new software, technical staff, and infrastructure at each client’s site. Options provides the server, storage, resilience, backup and connectivity services, and can work with the software vendor to support all of the client’s technical needs.
Existing, Broad Connectivity
Leverage the PIPE‘s existing connectivity to brokers, financial markets and hedge fund clients, and service customers in all of the world’s key trading centres. Benefit from a proven, robust platform from day-1, and significantly reduce implementation lead times and project risks.
Unmatched Expertise & Experience
Options has the longest track record of providing high-quality IT infrastructure services exclusively to the financial sector. Our staff have direct experience with the widest range of financial software solutions, covering OMS, PMS, DMA, risk management and back office systems, and they understand the importance of responsiveness and uptime for trading and business critical software.
Software as a Service (ASP)
There is no better way to consolidate new client opportunities than to provide your software as a service from the Options PIPE® platform. No alternative offers the same level of care, platform design, or finance sector experience as the Options PIPE®.
Solutions
Expand allows businesses with an existing IT infrastructure to add scale and performance quickly and without capital or HR investment.
Reduce the time-to-market of new strategies and projects and profit from Options’ advice, expertise and experience.
Velocity gets you as close as possible to the market with the benefits of fully-managed services for servers and storage, market access, and networking that includes free backhaul to your local region.
Accelerate
Accelerate your local and global market access with Options PIPE® connectivity to your existing IT infrastructure.
Take Velocity market data and counter-party connectivity in local and remote regions back to your existing networks and servers, either natively or via a consistent API. High speed, low latency market data within a familar environment.
Features
- High performance blade and grid server farms and SAN storage, locally and in remote locations
- Unmatched experience with financial software hosting and full service provision
- Direct connectivity to all major exchanges; lowest latency trading model hostings; backhaul from remote regions
- Existing nexus of hedge fund market participants
- Proven leader in hedge fund technology infrastructure