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INTRODUCTION
Companies that trade, or buy and sell, commodities face a myriad of complex business and technical challenges these days. One typical conundrum is
often around Information Technology (IT). A trading firm is, after all, a trading
firm and not an IT shop and yet, it needs to have an IT infrastructure, usually a
very complex IT infrastructure, in order to conduct its business efficiently. That
infrastructure will consist of hardware, networks, mission-critical applications,
security, back up, recovery and much, much more. It requires a special set of
expertise, both from a technical and a business standpoint, in order to maintain
and continually improve it. Such staff is hard to come by and even harder to
retain. Meanwhile, regulations and rapidly shifting market conditions mean that
infrastructure is getting more and more complex and more and more critical.
How is this problem to be tackled and at what cost?

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