Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, with 20,000 employees around the world. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a comprehensive set of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. In 2009 Barclays Capital announced a multi-year partnership establishing Solace equipment as the global standard for Barclays Capital’s new, enterprise-wide high-speed messaging platform. Barclays Capital uses Solace appliances to integrate applications spanning the front, middle and back office. By consolidating all messaging needs onto the new platform Barclays Capital has simplified their infrastructure while saving on development, datacenter and support costs.

Azure is a provider of electronic payment and multi-channel CRM solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Azure replaced an MQ-based messaging platform with Solace, an upgrade which has translated into 500% more capacity and lower latency for their payments customers. The capacity of the Solace appliance has enabled Azure to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of their system by consolidating many racks worth of servers and MQ licenses down to a small number of Solace appliances. The vertical scalability of Solace’s architecture enables Azure to keep up with growing demand and data volumes as e-payment processing becomes even more ubiquitous.

CSE is an alternative stock exchange that provides a more efficient way for companies to access the Canadian public capital markets. CSE relies on Solace appliances to manage the distribution of its high speed data feeds to clients. CSE selected Solace’s technology based on its ability to improve the company’s infrastructure without client impact or application changes, enabling them to capitalize on the benefits of the new system quickly and with minimal risk.

Connectivity in a Box offers a hosted FIX connectivity service that makes it easier and less expensive for buy side and sell side firms to connect. Connectivity in a Box turned to Solace for the messaging layer of their infrastructure because Solace appliances give them a turnkey, high-performance infrastructure that offers high-availability, sophisticated management and monitoring, and elastic scalability so they can keep up with traffic spikes and growing customer demand. Connectivity in a Box also uses Solace’s virtualization capabilities to enable the secure multi-tenant operation that lets them cost-effectively meet the needs of their wide range of customers.

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) of the United States Department of Homeland Security is a jointly staffed office established to improve the Nation’s ability to detect and report unauthorized attempts to import, possess, store, develop, or transport nuclear or radiological material for use against the Nation. The DNDO uses Solace’s technology to enhance threat monitoring and response capabilities of local, state and federal emergency organizations in urban areas. Solace appliances work in conjunction with strategically placed sensors, as well as applications responsible for recognizing threats and coordinating responses, to improve the country’s ability to protect population centers and critical infrastructure. Solace’s appliances are compliant with the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) suite of standards, which the DHS has adopted to improve communication between government agencies and non-governmental organizations. The solution also supports other relevant standards such as OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), NIEM N.25 and Suspicious Activity Reports, USAF Cursor-On-Target, and the IEEE 1512 family of standards.

Fluent Trade Technologies offers a turnkey solution for automated trading systems and brokers. Fluent combines state-of-the-art technologies with their own expertise in multi-asset class feed handlers, market data distribution, big data processing and warehousing, trading infrastructure and risk management to reduce the cost, complexity and risk of participating in capital markets. Fluent uses Solace’s messaging middleware appliances as the data distribution backbone of their global, innovative, automated trading network/cloud and brokering services. Solace appliances distribute trading information to front- and back-office systems, big data warehouses that let clients run complex queries, and users of web-based client applications. With Solace Fluent has created an extremely scalable one-box solution that lets them offer their clients fast, reliable trading-related services that they can quickly customize to implement even the most complex trading strategies.

FxPro is an award-winning online broker, serving retail and institutional clients in more than 150 countries. FxPro provides access to competitive pricing and deep liquidity with no-dealing-desk intervention via its advanced trading platforms, superior execution technologies and algorithmic tools.FxPro is using Solace technology to increase the capacity, performance and robustness of the messaging infrastructure that powers its advanced trading platforms and customer-facing interfaces. FxPro is deploying a combination of Solace Message Router Appliances and Solace Virtual Message Routers to power a wide range of internal and customer-facing applications, including distribution within data centers, over wide area networks and via web and mobile devices. The new Solace infrastructure replaces multiple previously used technologies, including ActiveMQ, Kaazing and ZeroMQ. FxPro selected Solace for its unique scale and fault-tolerant features as well as a unified API and administration framework, which will keep the architecture and operation of their system simple even as they grow their business.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (the Club) is recognized around the world as a leading innovator in the field of online sports entertainment. The Club is using Solace message routers to improve the distribution of real-time odds and other information to their customers. The message routers have been implemented in collaboration with Sonivy, a provider of integrated technology services for the financial services sector in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The Club’s adoption of Solace is consistent with their commitment to delivering the best customer experience in horse racing, sporting and betting entertainment. The Solace message routers enable real-time distribution of large sets of odds data across multiple datacenters to give customers access to the most up-to-date odds and race results from their preferred channels.

Korea Exchange (KRX) is the sole securities exchange operator in South Korea, the result of consolidating the Korea Stock Exchange, Korea Equities Exchange and KOSDAQ. KRX has selected Solace’s messaging appliances as the core data delivery infrastructure for their new high-speed exchange platform. The new system, called EXTURE+, is the KRX’s next-generation trading system that offers low latency trading across many asset classes including equities, bonds, and derivatives. Solace makes it easier for the KRX to secure extra data copies onsite as well as for DR site to enable rapid disaster recovery. Solace will be used across all major markets offered by KRX including equities (KOSPI, KOSDAQ, and KONEX), derivatives and bonds.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport that plans, builds and maintains Singapore’s land transport infrastructure and systems. Solace’s data movement technology has been selected as a key infrastructure component of a Next-Generation Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system being built for Singapore Land Transport Authority by a consortium of NCS and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine System Asia (MHIES-A). As part of Singapore’s Next Generation ERP system, all vehicles will be equipped with an on-board device that leverages GPS to transmit real-time position, speed and more. Real-time alerts will notify drivers about congestion and suggest alternate routes.

Standard Chartered PLC is a leading international bank, listed on the London, Hong Kong and Mumbai stock exchanges. It has operated for over 150 years in some of the world’s most dynamic markets and earns around 90 per cent of its income and profits in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. As one of the world’s largest foreign exchange traders, Standard Chartered required a scalable next-generation infrastructure capable of low-latency data distribution across trading locations. After a rigorous evaluation and testing process, Standard Chartered selected Solace to provide the messaging infrastructure for their next-generation foreign exchange trading platform, and as their new standard for high performance messaging. Solace appliances were initially deployed in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London and New York to provide both reliable and guaranteed messaging between Standard Chartered trading venues. Additional appliances will be added to Standard Chartered’s network as more applications are migrated to the new platform, which SCB has selected as their new standard for high performance messaging.

Unibet is one of the largest online gambling operators in the European market, serving over 7 million customers in over 100 countries. Unibet offers a comprehensive range of online gambling products, such as sports betting, live betting, casino, poker, bingo and soft games through its web sites.Unibet is using Solace’s market leading appliances to accelerate information flow within their datacenters and to the over 7 million customers connecting to them. Traditionally, online gaming platforms have used a software-based guaranteed messaging platform for important transactions and another software solution for web messaging. Solace delivers companies a turnkey appliance that includes reliable, guaranteed and web messaging functionality to meet both of those requirements, along with WAN optimization, high availability, business continuity and advanced application monitoring. Solace improves messaging performance as much as 50 times with lower cost of ownership.