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Key takeaways Many fintechs find that risk is hiding in the 99th and 99.9th percentiles of latency, where minor delays can lead to sizable issues such as a missed fill or outdated market data.  Intrinsically, shared cloud environments that introduce performance variables cause latency spikes. These are likely not reflected in the average, but they still matter.   Hivelocity provides bare-metal, single-tenant servers to reduce tail latency incidents and smooth out operations for fintechs.  Average latency is a useful metric, …

Key takeaways Cloud infrastructure offers tremendous workload elasticity—but many workloads don’t need it.  Cloud renewals often spur boards to rethink their cloud strategy and start planning an exit. Moving workloads from the cloud starts by identifying workloads that need elasticity and those that don’t.  IT infrastructure decisions used to be simple. Cloud services were often …

Key takeaways Healthcare cloud spending is often higher than necessary because of inefficient workload placement.  Cloud environments are built for on-demand scalability; they’re offered at a premium price point to match.  Bare-metal infrastructure providers such as Hivelocity offer dedicated hardware that can support steady-state healthcare workloads with optimized cost efficiency.  Many healthcare organizations share a common …

Key takeways Fintechs are facing regulatory pressure to reduce their reliance on single providers for essential systems.  DORA applies beyond the EU. US-based fintechs with EU branches, EU customers, or services to EU-licensed financial entities are impacted.  Hivelocity is not named as a Critical ICT Third-Party Provider (CTPP) under DORA, making their US-based, multi-region footprint ideal for infrastructure diversification for …

Key takeaways Many SaaS organizations find that the database is both the biggest performance bottleneck and one of the largest line items on the cloud bill. Shared cloud infrastructure can hinder database performance while inflating costs.  Repositioning the database to dedicated bare metal removes the noisy-neighbor variable, changes the performance ceiling, and …

Key takeaways A majority of today’s fintech workloads are predictable and don’t need elastic infrastructure to support them.  However, many fintech organizations are continuing to pay a premium for burst-capable resources supporting workloads that don’t truly require them.  Workload realignment can translate to cost savings. Hivelocity enables fintech organizations to get a cloud-native experience alongside bare metal economics.  If your CFO asked you to find seven million dollars in …

Key Takeaways The portion of the SaaS stack that genuinely benefits from on-demand pricing is smaller than what many organizations are paying for. Cloud still has many relevant use cases, but steady-state workloads often don’t truly require elastic compute and its associated costs.  The Hivelocity SaaS Bundle provides a three-tier model that can help teams redistribute …

Key takeaways The cardholder data environment (CDE) has been steadily getting smaller, but many organizations haven’t resized their infrastructure spend to match. To increase efficiency, fintech organizations need to classify their data, scope workloads, and then align the infrastructure tier to the classification.  The Hivelocity Fintech Bundle makes it easy …