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By David Angwin, director, Marketing, Cloud Client Computing, Dell EMEA
Modern-day financial trading floors are a far cry from the noisy, frantic telephone-centred scenes of the 1980s (remember the movies Wall Street and The wolf of Wall Street). Significant upward trends in computing, data distribution and automated trading techniques have placed IT at the core of these environments. Trading floors are now dynamic hotbeds of IT innovation, where latency is king, and where even a few minutes of downtime can result in multi-million dollar losses.
In the fast-paced finance world, IT management teams are under intense pressure to ensure operating environments are perfect. Whether performing maintenance, patching vital software updates, carrying...
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