Three Benefits of Remote IT Infrastructure in Financial Trading

26 May 2024

THREE BENEFITS OF REMOTE IT INFRASTRUCTURE IN FINANCIAL TRADING

Investing in CoreStation^TM remote workstations to move compute away from the desk offers a number of benefits for financial traders. Here are three of the most important.

1. Boost agility

The first benefit of moving compute away from the desk is giving traders greater agility.

In fast-paced environments, agile working allows users to work where they want, when they want – not only giving individuals greater freedom, but also unlocking restrictions to enable firms to hire work where the best talent exists, rather than simply where they have office space.

In addition , it boosts the potential for collaboration across the business too. Giving users the freedom to move around the building facilitates cross-departmental collaborative working and gives employees greater exposure to different teams. It’s all about boosting the potential for Moves, Adds and Changes (MACs) – remote IT infrastructure enables you to improve your MAC ratio, without impacting performance.

Enhanced agility also supports disaster recovery and business continuity, boosting resilience and putting firms in a better position if faced with unexpected events like the outbreak of coronavirus of 2020.

2. Cut costs

Above all else, remote IT infrastructure can boost the bottom line – in more ways than one.

Put simply, reducing the power requirement on the desk saves energy costs, as does taking away the need for cooling solutions on the trading floor. Remember, high performance desktop workstations are hot and power-hungry devices, so it’s a sensible approach to move that power to a local comms room, data centre or private/hybrid cloud.

Moving compute away from the desk and into a central location also unlocks cost savings by streamlining IT maintenance requirements – if something goes wrong, the IT engineer only needs to get to one location. Not to mention the reduced cost of supplying users with Zero Client or Ultra Thin Client desktop solutions, rather than individual high powered devices.

If that’s not enough, remote workstations can also save costs by allowing firms to collapse their office space. Agile working facilitates hybrid roles and hot desking, which is a huge shift in an industry where hot desking has often been unavailable due to the high power compute requirements. Instead, users can work from anywhere, safe in the knowledge compute is secure, resilient and compliant – and the firm can subsequently cut overheads by collapsing office space.

3. Improve sustainability

As the focus on environmental performance continues to increase, remote workstations also deliver a more environmentally friendly solution for high-power compute. This is made possible by reducing energy and cooling requirements on the trading floor, and enabling  remote/hybrid working, which itself is proven to cut carbon footprint by up to 54%.

You can read more about the environmental benefits of remote workstations in our previous article – including why it’s so important for any organisation to reduce their emissions in the current climate.

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