NYSE Euronext broadens tech access to massive UK data centre

14.04.2012
NYSE Euronext has dramatically broadened access to its UK data centre, which is located in Basildon and went live in late 2010.

The data centre houses all of NYSE Euronext's European markets including Amsterdam, Lisbon, Paris, Smartpool and the NYSE Liffe derivative markets. NYSE Euronext has also been adding a number of third party exchanges, including Bourse de Luxembourg and Sigma-X into the facility which is around the size of six and half football pitches.

Basildon is the European equivalent of NYSE Euronext's US facility in Mahwah, New Jersey, housing its US markets - principally the New York Stock Exchange and ARCA.

Tariq Rashid, managing director of European colocation at NYSE Euronext, told Computerworld UK that the exchange had made a number of technology changes to allow smaller and more varied capital markets firms to have easier access to the markets.

"Originally many people saw colocation as the preserve of larger firms that were able to make big investment in the required technology infrastructure, but now we have set up the space and have policies that allow smaller companies to take part. We allow all capital market participants into colocation and allow them to start with smaller colocation footprints such as half a rack if that's all they need," he said.

"We're also setting up a colocation 'compute on demand' service," Rashid said. "We provide a fully managed platform for those firms that wish to start trading quickly without having to source hardware themselves - it's something we already do for our US markets in Mahwah and allows us to simplify the process for smaller firms/trading desks wishing to start to trade quickly from colocation."