END USER INSIGHT
Seeking a strategic partnership
Andreas Loizides, CIO, Trading Point, said:
“Like many digital-first organisations, the
role of Trading Point’s IT team has evolved
over the past decade – charged with
developing new services and products,
TRADING POINT’S
PARTNERSHIP
WITH RACKSPACE
HAS ENABLED
THE COMPANY TO
TRANSFORM ITS
INFRASTRUCTURE
AND PRACTISES
IN LINE WITH
CRITICAL
BUSINESS
REQUIREMENTS.
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ensuring a superior experience at every
customer touch-point, risk management
– all while improving and maintaining
uninterrupted internal services.”
To enable the IT team to focus on
driving value back to the business’ core
competencies, Trading Point began looking
for a strategic partner to take on the
management of hardware infrastructure
and support the firm in the maintenance
of its systems.
As an online financial services company
and a household name in many regions,
cybercriminals see Trading Point as a big
opportunity for monetary reward. It was
particularly important for Trading Point to
find an organisation that could maintain
the high level of security required to
protect the company and its resources
from malicious cyberattacks and
unauthorised access.
And, given the significant fines at stake
under GDPR for firms that are breached,
Trading Point is acutely aware that a
cybercriminal could potentially hold the
power to destroy the firm.
Trading Point selected Rackspace as
its strategic partner, not only due to its
market-leading technical expertise and
security services, but as the company has
very similar values of providing a ‘fanatical
experience’ to its customers – putting
the customer first while going above and
beyond with the service it delivers.
Delivering industry-leading
practices with Rackspace
Loizides said: “Trading Point’s partnership
with Rackspace has enabled the company
to transform its infrastructure and practises
in line with critical business requirements.
The main and backup data centres for
Trading Point’s client facing equipment have
been deployed in an enterprise, state of the
art data centre in an excellent location. This
enables Trading Point to cross-connect
to liquidity providers for direct market
pricing, as well as engage other strategic
partners like Akamai for security and
Oracle Cloud’s database management
system (DBMS) solution.”
To help manage this infrastructure,
Trading Point is also able to take
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