Systems
It is important in any industry that one's environment and systems be available and reliable, but, in the trading and financial services industry, it is imperative. YJT's systems engineers have the experience and technical expertise to optimize your systems and ensure that your environment is secure. With our skilled resources, you can be sure that your critical systems solutions will be executed both efficiently and effectively.
Our Systems Consulting services include the following core offerings:
Systems Infrastructure Implementation
YJT helps trading and financial services firms design, implement and optimize the systems aspects of their IT infrastructure in order to meet the high demands of trading networks. Following are some of the areas that YJT has extensive experience:
- Backend server design, implementation and migrations - Active directory and other core services, VMWare, Citrix, SQL server, Exchange
- High-end multi-monitor trader workstation design, implementation and management.
- Remote secure connectivity solutions
- Communications - Email, chat, instant messaging, compliance.
- Hardware and software recommendations, selection and implementation per developed best practices in the trading industry.
- Implement systems management solutions to reduce support costs and number of downtime incidents.
Systems Architecture Assessment
Assessments of existing client networks result in the following outcomes:
- Validation of optimal networking topology and configuration for high availability and performance
- Identification of performance issues and/or obsolete servers
- Recommendation for systems optimization
- Roadmap for improvement across entire IT infrastructure
- Risk assessment and risk mitigation plan (and future implementation)
Backup/Compliance
YJT has experience in the end to end review, design and implementation of a backup/compliance solution:
- Server, workstation, email, instant messaging backups
- Data retention per business needs
- Compliance backups for financial transactions, communications, and other SEC-mandated record archival
- Full offsite disaster recovery site design and implementation
Market data infrastructure design and implementation
YJT can execute the complete design and implementation of a market data solution, tailored to the needs of the trading organization:
- Review trading organization requirements and recommend market data provider and solution
- Work with market data providers to properly spec systems and storage requirements keeping growth in market data rates in mind
- Design of long-term storage solutions for market tick data for back testing and analysis
High Performance / Parallel / Grid computing
YJT can design and implement small to large scale parallel computing solutions to make trading decisions better and faster by allowing faster and more accurate models and calculations:
- Server-based grids using commodity hardware
- GPU and other dedicated hardware-accelerated computation systems
New Office Build-outs
YJT has experience in providing beginning-to-end support for new firms or existing firms with new offices and/or technology needs:
- Complete design of trading front and back office infrastructure including workstations, servers, storage, and data center.
- Work with business units to customize solutions to business and trading strategy