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- Global multi-strategy hedge fund with major focus on investing in global equities in both public and private companies
- Largest start-up hedge fund in history, with over $3.5 billion in assets under management at launch
- Seasoned, high-profile management with diverse expertise and team approach to investing
- Offices in New York and London, with rapid expansion to Asia
- Planned 80+ employees by end of first year
- Institutional mindset and infrastructure from inception, including high systems availability, rapid scalability, and disaster recovery
Synchronize three critical technology projects—two state-of-the-art data centers, two major office relocation efforts, and a fully functional disaster recovery site—to be up and running at fund launch. Requirements included:
- High availability, scalability without redesign, security in depth, and remote connectivity
- Uninterrupted, quality technology services to users during relocation efforts
On a highly aggressive 10-week schedule, Gravitas’ team collaborated with the client’s technology expert to:
- architect, design, and implement completely fault-tolerant, state-of-the-art data centers in New York and London.
- plan, coordinate, oversee, and implement two major relocation efforts.
- design and provision fully functional disaster and work area recovery site with Internet, market data, productivity tools, and remote operation of critical business applications.
- provide timely, client-focused 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. help desk support plus emergency weekend support for all IT issues
- Leading-edge, high-availability clustering, SAN, and replication technologies for reliability and scalability without interruption of services
- Top-of-the-line hardware and software
- OSPF and BGP protocols for automatic failover between ISPs and full utilization of the dedicated 100Mb connection between New York and London
- Security in depth through high-availability firewalls, embedded anti-spam and anti-virus systems, and web-browsing protection
- RIS deployment technology for desktop standardization, quality, and repeatability
- Secure remote connectivity
- Web-based infrastructure documentation for ease of use and updatability
- Telecommunications suite comprised of dedicated PBXs, integrated IPC controllers, trading Turrets, a modular messaging system, and supplemental emergency analog lines
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