Capital markets have become significantly more complicated over the past few years. Rapid cloud migration continues to challenge traditional exchange protocols and trading behaviors. As a result, network connectivity requirements between data centers and dispersed endpoints have been rerouted and redefined in today’s high-frequency trading ecosystem.

Financial exchange best practices can serve as a blueprint for all hyperscale data centers. Like it or not, behind every transaction is a labyrinth of algorithms and networking infrastructure technology that, despite the dispersed cloud computing ecosystem, converge in one place: the data center.