Im pretty ignorant on cloud computing, remote app hosting and MS TS but from what I can gather it might be what my company is looking for.
A little background, we are a trading company with about 50 traders scattered around the US. We trade futures markets based out of Chicago, meaning all trades executed are done so in the Chicago land area. There are two main servers that the trades are done through, downtown Chicago at the CBOT and a center in Aurora Il.
The closer one is to these servers the faster the input and trading times are for the trader. For example Im in the western burbs and avg on a good day 20-30ms and 40-60ms when there is net congestion. The best times of 11ms is done by another trader closer to the exchange. We have a number of people, including the boss who live in Florida and some on the East coast, even one guy in Hawaii. They avg from 60-200+ms and for our business that's slow.
Those who live farther out tend on avg to get worse trades then us closer, at least during peak times. We recently had a custom auto trading program made for us that give us an advantage in terms of trading execution but is partially key on speeds. In order to get the most out of this, we need to find ways of getting faster speeds to the exchange servers. Hence the need to looking into other computing options app hosting and so forth.
The idea is, to setup a trading computer either in the same building as the servers, which we can rent space for but is very costly, or setup a similar machine outside but close to the servers to the point it still gets us much faster speeds then we currently get.
I have a very limited and basic understanding of MS Terminal Server. If I understand it correctly, it's one computer that offers multiple personal desktops for each client. So basically multiple virtual machines all bundled into one hardware unit. Am I correct in this thinking?
I guess what Im looking to get out of MS TS is the remote apps capability. Because the auto trading program is best taken advantage of when the speeds are in it's favor, I was hoping the remote app option would be perfect. We can set it up the way we want on our base pc and have it run off of the virtual machine setup close to the main servers.
So what I need to know is, is MSTS the option we should be looking at? Also in terms of cloud/app hosting, is this what it is essentially, a remote app style system? Are there any suggestions anyone here can offer that I might be missing out on? Any help would be much appreciated.
A little background, we are a trading company with about 50 traders scattered around the US. We trade futures markets based out of Chicago, meaning all trades executed are done so in the Chicago land area. There are two main servers that the trades are done through, downtown Chicago at the CBOT and a center in Aurora Il.
The closer one is to these servers the faster the input and trading times are for the trader. For example Im in the western burbs and avg on a good day 20-30ms and 40-60ms when there is net congestion. The best times of 11ms is done by another trader closer to the exchange. We have a number of people, including the boss who live in Florida and some on the East coast, even one guy in Hawaii. They avg from 60-200+ms and for our business that's slow.
Those who live farther out tend on avg to get worse trades then us closer, at least during peak times. We recently had a custom auto trading program made for us that give us an advantage in terms of trading execution but is partially key on speeds. In order to get the most out of this, we need to find ways of getting faster speeds to the exchange servers. Hence the need to looking into other computing options app hosting and so forth.
The idea is, to setup a trading computer either in the same building as the servers, which we can rent space for but is very costly, or setup a similar machine outside but close to the servers to the point it still gets us much faster speeds then we currently get.
I have a very limited and basic understanding of MS Terminal Server. If I understand it correctly, it's one computer that offers multiple personal desktops for each client. So basically multiple virtual machines all bundled into one hardware unit. Am I correct in this thinking?
I guess what Im looking to get out of MS TS is the remote apps capability. Because the auto trading program is best taken advantage of when the speeds are in it's favor, I was hoping the remote app option would be perfect. We can set it up the way we want on our base pc and have it run off of the virtual machine setup close to the main servers.
So what I need to know is, is MSTS the option we should be looking at? Also in terms of cloud/app hosting, is this what it is essentially, a remote app style system? Are there any suggestions anyone here can offer that I might be missing out on? Any help would be much appreciated.
