Leading Hedge Fund Relies on HTL to Design, Implement and Support Real-time Disaster Recovery (DR) Systems

Overview

Atlantis Investment Management was founded in 1994. It is an independent company, owned by the managers, clearly focused on investment management in the Asian region. Atlantis Investment Management is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Atlantis has expertise in long only Asian equity investment management, and is therefore ideally placed to manage clients’ assets in these specialised stock markets.

Atlantis opened its Tokyo office in 1996 and have since opened offices in Hong Kong, Mumbai and Seoul, giving them the regional presence necessary to generate superior returns for their clients.

Problem

Atlantis were looking for an new IT partner to support their existing infrastructure. When the time came to upgrade their systems their new IT partner needed to be competent and experienced in a wide range of technologies.

The requirements were to:

  • Provide Email and Internet Services
  • Delivering IT Support  24 hours a day 7 days a week, with rapid on site response times.
  • Meet the budgetary requirements of the business.
  • Implementation of desktop PCs and servers based on Microsoft Technologies.
  • Provision of telecommunication platforms with supporting services.
  • Design and develop a comprehensive Disaster Recovery system and procedure.
  • Provide a platform for mobile working.
  • Ensure system access available to users accross the globe.
  • Integrate with Advent Investment Management bespoke software.
  • Provide scalable solutions.
  • Ongoing IT Support and Maintenance of the entire network.
Case Study Atlantis Investment Management

HTL have worked alongside Pontis for many years. Despite undergoing large amounts of charge during that period the network has run smoothly and as demand has increased so the systems have scaled.

Solution

Being a global business, Atlantis could not afford any downtime whatsoever. The disaster recovery site had to be available at a moments notice. HTL designed a system based around Double Take software that replicated all data in real time and would allow fail over in approximately 3 minutes from the live site to the disaster recovery site.

Technologies from a core group of manufacturers and service providers qwew integrated to provide the ideal solution for Atlantis. These consisted of:

In addition, HTL provided some of its own unique services:

 

Technical Details

Office Move, CAT 5 Data Cabling

Disaster Recovery Systems (Double Take)

Virtual Servers

Windows 2008, Exchange Server, SQL 2005, Symantec Anti Virus, Symantec Backup Exec

Comms Room Refurbishment

Telecoms – Avaya IP Office, ISDN 30

Blackberry, Android, iPhone

Bloomberg

Satuit

Citrix

On-going IT support to users in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mumbai.

Conclusion

HTL have worked alongside Pontis for many years. Despite undergoing large amounts of charge during that period the network has run smoothly and as demand has increased so the systems have scaled.

Extra users are easily added to the existing infrastructure as required. Being service focused Pntis are always looking for ways to utilise new Technology to service their client’s needs, and rely on HTL to recommend new versions of software as they become available.

HTL engineers are on hand providing rapid response and hardware swap out to all problems.

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