UID:
almahu_9948026423502882
Format:
1 online resource (307 p.)
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
1-282-34518-4
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9786612345180
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0-08-095936-9
Series Statement:
Complete technology guides for financial services series
Content:
Financial markets are witnessing an unprecedented explosion in the availability of data, and the firms that survive will be able to leverage this information to increase their profit and expand their opportunities in a global world. Financial firms have two options: to build their own data centers or to outsource them to hosting services such as Google and Amazon 'cloud' services. While outsourcing data centers is a trend for small firms, it is not applicable to bigger firms who want more control over their huge amounts of data. Large firms thus build their own data centers. In such an environ
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front cover; Next generation datacenters in financial services: driving extreme efficiency and effective cost savings; Copyright page; Contents; Series editors' preface; Preface; About the author; Book conventions; Chapter 1 The accelerating demand for datacenters; 1.1 State of the datacenter today; 1.1.1 Credit crisis and regulatory requirements; 1.1.2 Trends in real-time enterprise transformation; 1.1.3 IT spending versus revenue growth; 1.1.4 Diminishing returns of further optimization; 1.1.5 Exponential data growth; 1.1.6 Lack of efficiency; 1.2 The next-generation datacenter
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Chapter 2 Challenges in legacy architecture2.1 IT's dilemma: remodeling the plane while it's in flight; 2.1.1 The predictions; 2.1.2 A multitude of disruptions; 2.1.3 Lessons learned; 2.2 A legacy of challenges; 2.3 How different executives view the datacenter; 2.3.1 CTO organization POV; 2.3.2 CIO organization POV; 2.3.3 Middle/front office organizations POV; 2.3.4 Reconciling differences; 2.4 Entrenched legacy infrastructure; 2.5 Moving forward; Chapter 3 Real Time enterprise; 3.1 The real time enterprise; 3.1.1 Continuous improvement; 3.1.2 IT in a real time enterprise
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3.1.3 The new IT environment3.2 Alignment as a strategy; 3.2.1 IT as the analog of the business; Chapter 4 Design from the top-down; 4.1 Bottom up: past design decisions influence today's operations; 4.2 Top-down: aligning supply to demand; 4.3 The impact of fluctuating demand on rigid supply; 4.4 The tailored and dynamic environment; 4.4.1 Proposed solution: a Fit-for-Purpose Real Time Infrastructure (RTI); 4.4.2 What is Fit-for-Purpose?; 4.4.3 What is Real Time Infrastructure (RTI)?; 4.4.4 Operating characteristics of a Fit-for-Purpose RTI
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4.5 Realizing a Fit-for-Purpose RTI design (design principles for RTI)4.5.1 Drivers; 4.5.2 Artifacts; 4.5.3 Core competencies; 4.5.4 Technologies; 4.5.5 Governance: the key to sustaining RTI value; 4.6 Processing Execution Destinations (PEDs); 4.6.1 Low latency ensemble; 4.6.2 Complex transaction ensemble; 4.6.3 Numerical processing ensemble; 4.6.4 Information integration ensemble; 4.7 The Next Generation Datacenter (NGDC) design; 4.7.1 Deployment architecture; 4.7.2 Platform architecture; 4.7.3 Next Generation Datacenter design principles; 4.7.4 Next Generation Datacenter business benefits
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Chapter 5 Designing the foundation5.1 Change management plan from the start; 5.1.1 Controlling scope; 5.1.2 Keeping the end game in mind; 5.1.3 Expect resistance to change; 5.1.4 Communication; 5.2 The beginning; 5.2.1 Forensic methodology; 5.2.2 The forensic model; 5.2.3 Leveraging the forensic model; 5.3 NGDC design artifacts; 5.3.1 Legacy datacenter modeling; 5.3.2 Service design; 5.3.3 Service design qualities; 5.3.4 Service architecture patterns; 5.3.5 Architecture ensembles; 5.3.6 Infrastructure processing execution destinations (PEDs); 5.3.7 Service design framework
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5.3.8 Service design road map
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-374956-5
Language:
English
