Photos: Colocation is This Data Center's Specialty

Colocation is This Data Center's Specialty
With reducing data latency a priority for financial services firms, one option is to colocate servers that run trading applications close to exchanges. One New York area data center specializes in just that. Savvis, a provider of utility-hosted data center services, has a data center close to Manhattan that offers connectivity to market data from more than 100 exchanges worldwide and OPERA data; access to two SIAC Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure nodes; and colocation proximity hosting for five exchanges, including the AMEX, BATS and PHLX (the other two exchanges declined to allow their names to be printed).

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Telecommunications "Node" Room	Proximity Hosting	Varghese Thomas, VP & GM, Financial Markets for SAVVIS

Dual Authentication Hand Scanner	Security Portal	Glass Security Portal

Eye In The Sky	Hosted Utility Service	Hosted Utility Service

Fully Hosted Utility	Conference Room	Conference Room with Fogged Glass

Varghese Thomas, VP & GM, Financial Markets for SAVVIS	Power Distribution Units	A/C Floor Vents

Smoke and Heat Detectors	Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA)