Infrastructure Architecture

Citihub has designed, built and managed some of the most critical and complex market data and e-commerce environments in the financial services industry.

Consultants from our technical practice work alongside your enterprise architecture and infrastructure architecture functions to design new infrastructures and the management of their operating environments. Our expertise and intimate understanding of these environments allow us to get the best efficiency, performance and reliability from your systems.

Efficiency
Efficiency in technology environments, is about extracting the maximum output from your capital investment without sacrificing resiliency and performance where it is needed. This generally involves improving average utilisation levels across tens of thousands of CPUs and hundreds of terabytes of storage capacity.

Our clients are all familiar with the benefits of selective consolidation, virtualisation and the vision of agile or real-time infrastructures. Where Citihub brings value is in strong proven financial modelling, pragmatic experience of what does and doesn't work (especially related to application environments), the tools, process and controls necessary to run effective shared environments and close collaboration with your development teams to ensure effective execution of your plans.

>> Platform consolidation assessment across 2,000 applications (case study)

Performance
To Citihub, performance is synonymous with Electronic Trading and the requirement for consistent, low latency pricing and transaction flows between counterparties and pools of liquidity.

Citihub has industry leading capabilities in monitoring, analysing and remediating end-to-end latency issues which have helped our clients achieve massive increases in eTrading market share.

We have a deeply technical approach but we are pragmatic, can quickly assess how to get the biggest bang for your buck. We understand the laws of diminishing returns involved chasing nano-second improvements in the wrong places.

>> 300% performance improvement for eTrading application (case study)

Resiliency
Application availability is the number 1 priority in financial services. The ability to respond quickly or seamlessly to unanticipated volumes or unplanned component failures differentiates one business from another.

Citihub has worked with a number of the leading firms in financial services on assessment and remediation of operational risk and infusing process and controls into their environments to proactively anticipate future issues.

Our deep knowledge of application environments and infrastructure technologies allows us to take an end-to-end application view or a broad horizontal infrastructure layer view to find or anticipate issues which may otherwise be missed and give your businesses the confidence to execute under the most volatile conditions.

>> Market data platform review (case study)
>> Equities operational improvement program (case study)