Automated Trading Desk (ATD) Has Deployed Centrify DirectControl to Streamline The Administration of Hundreds of Linux Servers
"It's been great to have the ability to change configuration parameters from one central point. It was relatively hard to do before."
Carlos O'Ryan
CTO, ATD
Challenge: Manage More than 700 SUSE Linux Servers
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Automated Trading Desk, LLC is a pioneer in the development and creation of systems and software for automated limit-order trading. ATD's proprietary, expert systems capture and analyze vast amounts of market data in real time and predict very short-term price movements in individual stocks. — 700+ SUSE Linux Servers
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Automated Trading Desk (ATD) has deployed Centrify DirectControl to streamline the administration of hundreds of Linux servers for both configuration and identity management.
A recent article on SearchOpenSource describes their experience:
At Automated Trading Desk, a trading services provider for domestic equity markets based in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Carlos O'Ryan as CTO oversees a data center of more than 700 Linux and Windows-based IBM BladeCenter LS20s and LS21s.
Like many Linux environments, O'Ryan's staff had the tedious task of going server to server with password updates. With 700 servers needing individual attention every time an employee left the company, oftentimes ATD's "best practice" was to do nothing at all. "That was basically our big headache; we did not have any way to centrally control access," O'Ryan said. "It's been great to have the ability to change configuration parameters from one central point. It was relatively hard to do before."
With Centrify's DirectControl, O'Ryan estimated ATD saved approximately three-quarters of a person per year in personnel costs. Password and permissions management, which O'Ryan described as "daunting," also became centrally managed.
ATD was able to increase the security of their environment, free his administrators for more meaningful work and lower his administrative costs.
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