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Fixnetix Relies on Rackwise DCiM XTM to Plan Data Center Expansion
FOLSOM, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
Rackwise, Inc. (OTC: RACK) (the "Company"), a leading developer of data
center infrastructure management ("DCIM") software and service
solutions, today announced that Fixnetix,
a London-based managed services provider for ultra-low latency market
data, trading, and risk control, is expanding its current deployment of
Rackwise® DCIM solutions to include Rackwise DCiM XTM
to manage critical information technology ("IT") infrastructure
supporting and driving its exponentially growing global business.
Recently recognized as the top computer sector growth company in the Deloitte
Technology Fast 500 EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Asia) 2012,
Fixnetix provides outsourced managed services across multiple asset
classes to leading global banks and related organizations requiring
ultra-low latency trading, market data, hosting, infrastructure
connectivity and risk management solutions. In addition to maintaining
its own data centers, Fixnetix is co-located in 33 hosting data centers
throughout Europe, the United States, the Asia-Pacific region and
Africa, providing trading access to its extensive customer base of
leading investment banks, hedge funds, market makers and proprietary
trading firms in over 79 countries. The company's explosive growth is
driven by the increasing complexity and globalization of the financial
services industry, including an evolving regulatory and compliance
landscape. These same factors are driving the financial markets' need
for more reliable internal and outsourced DCIM models to ensure data
security, mitigate risk from fault and failure, lower costs and maximize
operational efficiencies.
To better support its rapid business growth and corresponding IT
infrastructure expansion, Fixnetix cited enhanced visibility into data
center asset and power tracking, management and control among the
critical objectives of its present and prospective DCIM strategies. In
reviewing products currently available, Fixnetix determined the advanced
reporting capabilities and other features and functionalities of the
Rackwise DCiM XTM offering to be the superior
solution, yielding enhanced insight and control necessary to fulfill its
responsibilities as Vendor of Record and Network Service Provider for
the majority of exchanges in Europe and a growing number in North
America. Additionally, the visibility and control available with
Rackwise DCiM XTM enables Fixnetix to evolve
its internal and co-located IT infrastructure more cost-effectively,
utilizing the reporting and modeling capabilities inherent in the
Rackwise® solution.
Hugh Hughes (News - Alert), Chief Executive of Fixnetix, comments, "Fixnetix growth
continues to push the need to expand and optimize our investment in IT.
Our DCIM strategies include extending the lives of our current data
centers by maximizing financial and operational efficienies while we
analyse and plan for additional IT resources. Clear visibility into our
existing IT asset inventories and our ability to track and model them is
essential to implementing these strategies, as is our ability to
efficiently monitor, track and manage our power utilization. After
reviewing available alternatives, we believe that Rackwise DCiM XTM
offers superior features and functionalities and a robust reporting
subsystem to best enable us to cost-effectively manage our present
operations as well as plan and deploy requisite additional IT
infrastructure."
Mr. Guy A. Archbold, Rackwise, Inc. Chief Executive Officer, adds, "We
are delighted that Fixnetix, one of the fastest growing European
companies delivering technology-based managed service solutions, has
chosen to utilize Rackwise DCiM XTM to
support its data center expansion in meeting its rapidly evolving
business needs. Providing managed services for ultra-low latency market
data, trading, and risk control to the top echelons of the global
trading community requires Fixnetix to maintain a stable, secure yet
highly flexible IT infrastructure. Our Rackwise DCiM XTM
solution, with its advanced reporting subsystem and other enhanced
features and functionalities, provides Fixnetix the critical decision
support tools and metrics essential to effectively manage and expand its
computing infrastructure while maximizing cost and operational
efficiencies. This expanded deployment of the Rackwise® solution
demonstrates that our innovative real-time systems monitoring solutions
are essential in maximizing existing IT resources and cost-effectively
planning for expansions and additions across the computing
infrastructure, enabling customers to achieve their reliability goals,
discover hidden capacity, and optimize investments in their IT
infrastructure to support business growth."
About Fixnetix
Fixnetix, 2012 award winner (BEST HFT Product in Europe for Risk Control
from eFinancial News Awards for Excellence,) and 2011 award winning
company (fastest growing tech company in England and 2nd fastest in all
of Europe,) provides outsourced managed services across multiple asset
classes to leading global banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading
groups seeking ultra-low latency trading, market data, hosting,
infrastructure connectivity and risk management solutions. The company
is in 33 co- location and proximity hosting centres across Europe, USA,
Asia-Pac and Africa and offers trading access to over 79+ markets.
Fixnetix is one of the first firms to offer the FPGA for execution. The
company launched on November 2010 a real-time low latency filter,
iX-eCute, an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) to solve the eternal
industry conundrum of pre-trade risk, compliance and ultra-low latency
execution. iX-eCute opens the marketplace to all participants with no
detrimental impact on trading performance. The microchip enforces
pre-market risks at nanosecond time frames whilst preventing impact on
latencies that historically have slowed down more traditional trading
systems and models. Unlike other solutions, the iX-eCute microchip has
near zero impact on latency for governing the required checks directed
by the SEC (News - Alert) Rule 15c3-5 and anticipated declarations from other
regulatory governing bodies. For more information, visit www.fixnetix.com.
About Rackwise, Inc.
Rackwise, Inc. (RACK.OB) is a leader in software development and
marketing within the growing data center infrastructure management
("DCIM") market for IT infrastructure tracking, monitoring, modeling,
and management. The Company's flagship product, Rackwise DCiM XTM,
incorporates open architecture designs into a vendor agnostic platform
affording IT professionals maximum flexibility for efficient integration
in any computing environment. The Rackwise DCiM XTM
offering provides features and functionalities to assure
reliability, identify hidden capacity, and improve efficiencies
resulting in accelerated returns on investments through significantly
optimized data center facilities and IT infrastructures. Rackwise DCiM
XTM integrates device level, real-time
monitoring with advanced modeling, reporting, analytics and other
critical capabilities, enabling clients to more effectively manage
today's high density computing configurations and virtualized data
centers, mitigate risks associated with cascading faults and other
potential inefficiencies within the infrastructure, and facilitate
progress to more sustainable "green" data centers. Rackwise®
products and services are used by over 150 companies worldwide.
For more information, visit www.rackwise.com.
Rackwise®, DCiMTM and DCiM
XTM are trademarks of Rackwise, Inc. Other
designated trademarks and brands mentioned herein are the property of
their respective owners.
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forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current
expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties.
The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially
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uncertainties relating to the availability of additional funding; and
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including, the Company's current reports on Form 8-K. The Company does
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