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Trading floors need to be flexible and resilient. Global competition and multiple sources of data demand quick modeling, analysis and decisive reaction. Increased compliance and risk management creates an environment where any downtime can result in millions of lost revenue. Amulet Hotkey® CoreStation® solutions allow trader workstations to be centralized in a data center for secure and fast trading. Moving workstations away from the desk improves mobility and performance by keeping the compute, applications and data together regardless of where traders connect from. Unique flexibility and scalability Amulet Hotkey CoreStation solutions build on the success of six generations of blade workstations. We combine leading technologies from NVIDIA, VMware, Citrix and Dell EMC to deliver remote and virtual workstations. The result is a powerful, flexible and scalable platform that is optimized for the trading floor. Combine centralized workstations with Amulet Hotkey Thin Clients and Zero Clients at desks to further enhance security and reliability and to simplify management. AT A GLANCE Challenge Dynamic markets trigger the need for frequent and rapid moves, adds and changes Maintaining a highly available trading environment places a huge demand on IT Modern trading floor architecture creates a high demand for efficient power and cooling strategies Solution Centralized and virtualized trader workstations using Amulet Hotkey CoreStation® solutions Standardized desk-side technology with secure thin and zero clients VMware, Citrix and NVIDIA virtualization and enterprise-class management tools Benefits Operational agility to gain a competitive edge Lower OPEX for IMACs and simplified management Improved productivity and Infrastructure efficiency Enhanced security and flexible disaster recovery Working in partnership with… www.amulethotkey.com Solutions brief Powerful, efficient and scalable solutions to virtualize trading floor users Architected to virtualize users on the trading floor LAN/WAN CENTRALIZED TRADER WORKSTATIONS Between 4 and 128 users per 2U chassis

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Trading floors need to be flexible and resilient. Global competition and multiple sources of data demandquick modeling, analysis and decisive reaction. Increased compliance and risk management creates anenvironment where any downtime can result in millions of lost revenue.

Amulet Hotkey® CoreStation® solutions allow trader workstations to be centralized in a data center forsecure and fast trading. Moving workstations away from the desk improves mobility and performanceby keeping the compute, applications and data together regardless of where traders connect from.

Unique flexibility and scalability

Amulet Hotkey CoreStation solutions build on the success of six generations of blade workstations. Wecombine leading technologies from NVIDIA, VMware, Citrix and Dell EMC to deliver remote and virtualworkstations. The result is a powerful, flexible and scalable platform that is optimized for the tradingfloor.

Combine centralized workstations with Amulet Hotkey Thin Clients and Zero Clients at desks tofurther enhance security and reliability and to simplify management.

AT A GLANCE

Challenge

�� Dynamic markets trigger the need forfrequent and rapid moves, adds andchanges

�� Maintaining a highly available tradingenvironment places a huge demand on IT

�� Modern trading floor architecture creates ahigh demand for efficient power and coolingstrategies

Solution�� Centralized and virtualized trader

workstations using Amulet HotkeyCoreStation® solutions

�� Standardized desk-side technology withsecure thin and zero clients

�� VMware, Citrix and NVIDIA virtualizationand enterprise-class management tools

Benefits�� Operational agility to gain a competitive

edge

�� Lower OPEX for IMACs and simplifiedmanagement

�� Improved productivity and Infrastructureefficiency

● Enhanced security and flexible disasterrecovery

Working in partnership with…

www.amulethotkey.com

Solutions brief

Powerful, efficient and scalable solutions to virtualize trading floor users

Architected to virtualize users on the trading floor

LAN/WAN

CENTRALIZED TRADER WORKSTATIONS

Between 4 and 128 usersper 2U chassis

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About Amulet Hotkey

● 26 years’ experience developing solutionsfor mission critical trading floorenvironments.

● 60% of banks world-wide using AmuletHotkey products

● Proven history delivering remotecomputing solutions backed by world-classsupport

● 12-year global partnership with Dell EMC

● Products designed in collaboration with DellEMC with testing in Dell Engineering labs

Contact Details

EMEA Sales & Support+44 (0) 20 7960 2400

US & Canada Sales & Support+ 1 212 269 9300

APJ Sales & Support+61 409 930 884

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we can help build solutions to meet your requirements

Operational Agility forCompetitive Edge

● Enable new business workflow to boost competitive edge● Lower OPEX for installs, moves, adds and changes● Flexible disaster recovery options

Learn more:Visit amulethotkey.com or contact us to learn more about CoreStation trader workstation solutions.

Centralized workstation deployment flexibility:

Trader Experience &Productivity

Infrastructure Scalability,Reliability & Efficiency

● Improve performance by collocating applications, data and workstations inthe datacenter

● More pixels, less bezel for better productivity● Enhance experience with graphics/protocol acceleration

● Agile and scalable with server-grade reliability● Improve heat/power management and efficiency● Enhance security with zero and thin client devices

Virtual trader workstation benefits:

Amulet Hotkey CoreStation® blades

● CoreStation VFC640 for virtual workstations● CoreStation WFC640 for highest-performance users

ExceptionalScalability

Small Data Centre Footprint

VirtualWorkstations

Efficient resource sharing

DedicatedWorkstations

Powerful performance

ConvergedStorage

In-chassis storage options

88% Less rack SpaceFit 8x blades in the space of one

tower workstation

Scalable PerformanceUp to 8x CPUs, 64x memory slots

and 8x GPUs in 2RU

NVIDIA Tesla GPUsNVIDIA GRID vPC/vAPPS and

Quadro vDWS

Faster CPUsMore sockets for faster CPUs and

better performance

NVIDIA Quadro GPUsFor workstation-class multi-

display performance

Protocol AccelerationVMware Blast, Citrix HDX,Teradici PCoIP and more

HCI ReadyUsing 1-2x PowerEdge FD332

storage blades

IO ExpansionIO cards for more capacity or

native SAN ports

LAN/WAN

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