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Man AHL Accelerates Time-to-market with É«¿Ø´«Ã½ Data Hub

Investment management firm selects FlashBlade to drive investment modeling for its $24 billion portfolio.

Summary

Man AHL is a pioneer in the field of systematic quantitative investing. Its entire business is based on creating and executing computer models to make investment decisions. The firm has adopted the É«¿Ø´«Ã½ data hub solution to deliver the massive storage throughput and scalability required to meet its most demanding simulation applications.

Industry

Financial Services

GEO

United Kingdom

Use Cases

  • Applications - Python, Java and Apache Spark?
  • Database ¨C In-house development

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Customer

Man AHL sees significant savings from the simplicity of operation
The company benefits from more than FlashBlade¡¯s raw performance, and the É«¿Ø´«Ã½ plug-and-play capabilities add to operational efficiency.

Challenges

One of the firm¡¯s highest priorities was delivering a robust and ever-more-performant technology platform as a means of optimizing the performance and productivity of its quants and technologists. The demands on technology infrastructure at the firm were significant

  • Storage capacity was doubling every 18 months.
  • Legacy storage architecture was not adequately supporting developers and quantitative researchers.
  • Simulations required greater IOPS and bandwidth than legacy storage could provide.
  • The business was unable to fully leverage new technologies such as Spark and AI.

Results

Business Transformation

  • Quantitative researchers can now run more simulations faster, accelerating time-to-market for new investment models and raising the probability of improved returns for investors.

IT Transformation

  • Up to 600,000 IOPS and 6GBs bandwidth provide more than sufficient processing power for the most demanding simulations.
  • Quantitative researchers benefit from 10x-20x processing improvement.
  • Highly scalable Pure FlashBlade? architecture provides an on-demand path for future growth in capacity.? ??

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