In last week's article, The Cloud Trifecta: Scalability, Cost and Efficiency, we looked at the top three winning reasons hedge funds are gravitating towards the cloud. In today’s article (again inspired by our Cloud Forum website), we will examine further why firms are outsourcing the IT management of their applications to third-party cloud providers and the questions you should be asking. As validation of this trend, leading application vendors including Advent, ConvergEx, Tradar and...

Just last week, we talked about network security threats and the best practices your firm can employ to keep information safe. You probably think that your security efforts should be focused on the outside - on external risks. But the reality is that the biggest security threat to your firm could be the person sitting right next to you. It was mentioned by both eSentire’s Steve McGeown and Eze Castle’s Steve Schoener during our recent webinar that internal threats to security are...

Taking a page from the Cloud Forum (quite literally), today we look at the top three winning reasons hedge funds are gravitating towards the cloud. Not surprisingly, these reasons center around increased efficiencies, improved technology environment and cost savings. Scalable, Flexible and Available The cloud offers firms the option of scalability without the serious financial commitments required for infrastructure purchase and maintenance. With cloud services there is no vendor lock-in or...

As part of our ongoing thought leadership, we often host educational webinars on a variety of topics relevant to hedge fund operations and technology. For our most recent webinar, we decided to dive deeper into the topic of security, as it still remains one of the biggest priorities and concerns for hedge funds. Speaking on the webinar were two great security experts: Steve McGeown, VP of Marketing and Product Management at eSentire, and Steve Schoener, VP of Client Technology here at Eze...

It's no secret that cloud computing is the hottest topic in the world of investment technology right now (we've certainly been talking about it frequently!). We often hear from our hedge fund clients that they are very interested in this technology, but feel they still have additional learning to do before making an informed decision as to whether it is the right option for their firms. So, as part of our ongoing effort to provide educational content to our loyal Hedge IT readers, we have...

More than 100 hedge fund technology and operations professionals attended our recent Hedge Fund Cloud Summit in New York, and we're pleased to report that the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Not only was the Cloud Summit the first event of its kind, but it was also where we debuted Eze Castle TV! Some of our attendees were brave enough to face the camera and tell us what they thought of our event. Watch the video below to see what they had to say! To watch more of our videos, visit...

As any regular Hedge IT reader knows we are passionate about cloud computing and its use at hedge funds. We are also committed to being a constant source of information and education. So…drumroll please… We are excited to unveil the newest member of the Eze Castle Integration thought leadership family – Cloud Forum! On the Cloud Forum you will find rich information: What is Cloud Computing History of Cloud Computing Cloud...

The atmosphere in the room was one of excitement and anticipation. Not something you’d expect for a conference dedicated to cloud computing? Think again. We hosted our first-ever Hedge Fund Cloud Summit earlier this week at the Sofitel New York, bringing together over 100 operational and technology professionals from the investment industry for what truly was an exciting day. Event hosts Bob Guilbert and Vinod Paul kicked off the afternoon by offering their perspective on the changes...

What would we do without technology in our daily lives? Technology has evolved over the years helping us with the way we communicate with one another to the mediums we use to obtain and share information. If you remember, last year we wrote an article on Why We Love Technology. This year we thought we would share what our London employees love about technology. Check out what these Eze Castle employees had to say in the video below.

Next week, our Global Support Group director, Dan Kummer, will be attending the Help Desk Institute’s 2012 Conference & Expo in sunny Orlando, Florida, where he will hear from some of the industry’s top experts and learn about new support desk technologies and trends. As we look forward to this great event, we got to thinking about our own help desk team and support teams in general. What makes one help desk better than another? What are the key ingredients in providing the best...