THOMSON REUTERS ELEKTRON MANAGED SERVICES

THOMSON REUTERS ELEKTRON
MANAGED SERVICES
A CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT
REDUCE COST, UNLEASH INNOVATION
• Scarcity of capital for investment in data
and trading infrastructure
Whether you need an internet connection to market data, co-location of your application or a
fully managed market data environment, you can be up and running quickly and cost effectively.
• Core business comes first as IT teams
face an onslaught of new requirements
With strategic data centers all around the world, we are close to you and always close to the
trading action.
• Pressure to reduce cost of maintenance
and support
SOLUTIONS YOU CAN BUILD YOUR BUSINESS ON
• Need to innovate with fast time to
market required to take advantage of
new opportunities
• Operational risk and business continuity
planning requires firms to run additional
data centers
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DATA
AS A SERVICE
LAST MILE
PLATFORM
AS A SERVICE
INFRASTRUCTURE
AS A SERVICE
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CONNECTIVITY
AS A SERVICE
For financial markets Thomson Reuters is the leading provider of managed services – from
data center and IT infrastructure to market data, feeds and data platforms, right through to
connectivity to the data center or trading venues. Reliable, scalable and secure we provide
the solutions you can build your business on.
Data as a Service
• On-demand access to our data services
• Normalized, global cross-asset data including global equities and derivatives, FX, fixed income and commodities via a single connection
• Low latency data from direct exchange feeds
including full order books
• Elektron Real Time
• Tick History
• Machine Readable News
• Thomson Reuters News Analytics
• Fully Managed by Thomson Reuters
Infrastructure as a Service
• Rack space, hardware, operating systems and
networking for applications and systems
• Fully managed by Thomson Reuters
Platform as a Service
• Fully managed Thomson Reuters platforms
• Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform
• Thomson Reuters Dealing Aggregator
• Elektron Analytics
• Thomson Reuters Internet Suite
Connectivity as a Service
• Cross connect to trading venues
• Managed last mile communications
• VPN communications to the data center
SOLVING BUSINESS CHALLENGES TOGETHER
Reduce capital expenses: We fund, operate
and manage all the equipment, feeds,
platforms and connectivity you need in an
“as a service” model. You get the flexibility
to ramp up and ramp down infrastructure
as required.
Turnkey solution for BRICS: With our data
centers in São Paulo, Hong Kong, Shanghai
and Mumbai, you can be there without the
overhead of managing facilities and staff
locally. So you can find opportunities in some
of the fastest growing markets in the world.
Global data centers for business
continuity: In the event of a disaster
or outage you can access the trading
infrastructure, market data services and
connectivity you need at our data centers
across North America, Europe and Asia.
Get more control over IT budgets: Because
of our scale, we can provide real-time feeds,
infrastructure and application hosting
as cost effective, managed solutions –
providing cost transparency and control.
Be close enough to act with application
hosting and low latency feeds: You can
host your application at our data centers
located at or near the world’s leading
trading venues including Thomson Reuters
Matching – offering low latency access
to market data and trading engines. As a
result you are close enough to act.
Protect against cybersecurity threats: We
have the in-depth expertise and resources
to provide world-class security to prevent
unauthorized physical or cyber access to
your systems including Distributed Denial
of Service (DDoS) mitigation to minimize
the impact of attacks on your infrastructure.
Faster time to market around the
world: We provide an innovation-friendly
environment without the constraints of
legacy systems. You can on-board market
data and applications quickly anywhere in
the world. With greater agility you can take
advantage of new opportunities.
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High system availability with multiple layers
of redundancy: Our managed services are
designed to ensure system availability even
at peak updates rates – fully managed and
monitored by our team of experts 24x7.
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THOMSON REUTERS ELEKTRON MANAGED SERVICES
London, Interxlon, UK (L02)
LSE proximity to Interxion SFTI PoP
Toronto, ON
TMX Colocation
London, Slough, UK (L01)
Proximity to BATS-CHI-X, EBS
Chicago, IL (CH4)
CME and ICE Colocation
Weehawken, NJ (N12)
BATS and FXall colocation
SFTi POP
London, Docklands, UK (L04)
TR FX Matching colocation
Frankfurt, Germany (FR4 & 5)
Deutsche Borse colocation
Tokyo, Japan (TY6)
Shanghai, China
Taiwan
Mumbai, India (MB1)
Bombay Stock Exchange colocation
Hong Kong (HK8 + HK3)
Hong Kong Stock Exchange colocation
Singapore (SG8)
Sao Paulo, Brazil (RZ1)
Proximity to BMF&BOVESPA
Sydney, Australia
Australian Stock Exchange colocation
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT: DATA CENTERS COVERING KEY FINANCIAL CENTERS
Elektron Managed Services data centers are located in close proximity to the leading
financial centers around the world to facilitate your global trading requirements.
WHY THOMSON REUTERS
WHat is elektron?
Widest content coverage: Thomson Reuters provides the widest
content coverage from global markets with direct and consolidated
feeds from over 400 venues and OTC markets.
Thomson Reuters Elektron is a suite of trading and data
propositions that power the enterprise and connect global
markets. Elektron delivers low latency feeds from more than
400 exchange-traded and OTC markets, along with analytics,
distribution platform and transactional connectivity to support
any financial workflow application.
Unrivalled expertise in managing market data infrastructures:
Our engineers are uniquely qualified, with many years of experience
working on market data feeds and platforms.
Open technologies with widely used API: You can count on the
largest development community and knowledge base, with more
than 50,000 in-house and third-party applications written to our API.
Service Assurance: Service level agreement for end to end service
and delivery plus a premium monitoring environment offering pro-active alerts and 24x7 global support.
Elektron also powers the most innovative desktop and mobile
application in the world, Thomson Reuters Eikon. This brings our
global infrastructure to the fingertips of financial professionals,
wherever they are and whatever their role.
All of these capabilities can be deployed at a customer location
or delivered as a fully managed service from any one of our co-location and proximity hosting sites around the globe.
State-of-the-art security: We have the in-depth expertise and
resources to provide world-class security to prevent unauthorized
physical or cyber access to your systems.
Independent vendor: With Thomson Reuters you get the solution
that works best for your firm without compromise.
Visit thomsonreuters.com
For more information, contact your representative or visit us online.
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