OCF guns for financial sector with MThree link-up

VARs join forces to snare more City customers

High-performance computing VAR OCF has partnered with MThree Consulting to grow its presence in the financial sector.

MThree Consulting provides high-grade IT consultation for the global financial markets, and will now use OCF's supercomputing development experience to optimise trading floor infrastructures and decrease system latency.

OCF will work with MThree to drive more efficiency from their clusters and grids, identify information bottlenecks, optimise job scheduling and deploy the appropriate computing power to run algorithms that will cut latency to a minimum and enable customers to knock milliseconds off their risk analysis and pricing capabilities.

Julian Fielden, managing director of OCF, said: "MThree Consulting is a great fit for us in the financial markets sector. Our specialist ability to design, build and deploy high-performance computing solutions complements MThree Consulting's experience in creating specific service packages that dynamically improve their customers' trading performance.

"As the banking industry itself calls for ‘zero latency' to become a reality and seeks better results from their technology providers, we are looking forward to increasing the range of projects that both companies can tackle as part of the partnership."

Stephen Mason, chairman of MThree Consulting, said: "As an important part of our consultancy packages, we ensure our clients are getting access to the best performers in each technology field. OCF is best of breed when it comes to innovative solutions to optimise high-performance computing. This partnership is sure to provide another, extra level of quality and improved results for our customers."