Reasons to attend:

For many hedge funds, being successful in today’s economic environment requires the ability to process large quantities of data quickly to arrive at good investment decisions. Traditionally, a fund’s ability to process this data has been limited by the amount of computing and storage resources it could acquire. This meant funds often had to make large upfront investments in servers, storage, networks, and facilities, with limited flexibility to handle variable needs. Every dollar spent on computing infrastructure meant less was available for the more mission critical activity – investing.

Today, cloud computing is changing the paradigm of how IT resources are acquired and consumed. Instead of purchasing IT infrastructure with upfront capital investment, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is enabling companies to access only what is needed, and pay for the hours used (e.g. servers), or gigabytes consumed (e.g. storage). Instead of waiting weeks for purchased servers to be delivered, use the AWS Console or Application Programming Interface (API) to commission them in minutes. These are but a few examples of how AWS is enabling companies to do more with less.

By attending this seminar you will learn:

• About the full range of Amazon Web Services’ capabilities
• How to tap into large server and storage pools to process data quicker and cost effectively
• How to secure the computing, storage, and data transfer processes
• About two companies that have built solutions that leverage the AWS infrastructure

Agenda:

10:00am – 10:10am: Opening Statements

10:10am – 10:40am: Data Intensive Computing with AWS

10:40am – 11:10am: Clarity Solutions Group Platform Presentation

11:10am – 11:40am: Maxima Analytics Platform Presentation

11:40am – 12:00pm: Q&A Session

Where/When:

October 19, 2009

New York Marriott Downtown

85 West Street at Albany Street

New York, NY 10006 (View Map)