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WITHOUT AZURE,
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THAT COULD COPE
WITH THE FUTURE
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Services to develop a two-stage move to
Azure. In May 2017, it began hosting the
Epsilon service with Azure Virtual Machines.
Metori uses Azure SQL Database in
conjunction with an Azure virtual machine
(VM) to store all of its market data. It
connects the database to other Azure VMs
to process portfolio transactions and to a
Bloomberg API hosted on another Azure VM
to execute the orders. Once Epsilon was running on Azure, Metori
began transferring select functions to a mix
of Microsoft Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities. All
employees at Metori already use Microsoft
Office 365 for their daily work and to connect
with colleagues and customers. By mid-2018,
Metori expects to move all databases and
other core Epsilon functions from Azure VMs
to Azure platform services.
“Microsoft listened to our concerns and
understood our goals,” said Philippe Carpentier,
Senior Fund Manager at Metori Capital
Management. “They helped us prioritise
every aspect of our Azure environment for
performance, security and reliability.” By using Azure, Metori gets the enterprise
capabilities it needs to stay connected
to markets and investors, meet multiple
compliance requirements, retain and
safeguard data and ensure business
continuity, while it only pays for the
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