Thomson Reuters Expanding Software Services Pact for Data Center Rollout
March 12, 2010
Thomson Reuters Friday is extending a management pact with a London market data consultancy for the supervision of the software used in data centers it is setting up worldwide.
CJC Ltd. will help manage the software behind Thomson Reuters’ hosting services in New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Singapore and Tokyo.
The data centers allow trades to get direct connections and high-speed execution of orders at venues around the globe. The centers
CJC will help Thomson Reuters in providing “standalone” capacity in those centers to customers who want to “lift and shift” servers and applications from their own data centers, so they can be managed as a single unit, CJC’s chief executive Paul Gow said.
The company will also act as “Formula One mechanics” in providing market data feeds, server capacity and connections that are shared by multiple clients, he said.
Thomson Reuters will manage the services and the “rack-and-stack buildout.” Then, CJC will install software, configure it and tune systems.
CJC also will assist in the maintenance, monitoring, capacity management, and problem diagnosis and resolution.
Thomson Reuters announced its plan to launch “a series of fully resilient, scalable, performance-tuned data centers” New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Singapore in October. The main collaborator: U.S.-based data center operator Savvis.
