Turquoise goes live with hosted IT infrastructure

L'Huillier: hosted model allows Turquoise to concentrate on core trading needs

European equity trading platform Turquoise has announced that its hosted IT infrastructure is fully up and running, on the same day that traders lost connectivity to the rival London Stock Exchange for most of the day.

The hardware from Atlanta Technology includes 70 PCs with 14 hosted servers including email servers, domain controllers, a remote FalconStor CDP disaster recovery solution, a BlackBerry server, a terminal server, a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and a CRM server.

"In our industry, network uptime and data security is critical and, as a result, we partnered with Atlanta Technology to deliver a highly resilient infrastructure that can fully scale as we grow," said Yann L'Huillier, chief technology officer for Turquoise Trading.

"By opting for the hosted model, we are able to concentrate on our core trading business needs while Atlanta looks after our overall IT network requirements."

As part of a three-year contract, Atlanta Technology has established a number of strict service level agreements including a target of 99.99 per cent uptime on these servers.

The London Stock Exchange hosts its own IT infrastructure.