Attova and Masergy Partner to Offer Financial Markets a Scalable, Reliable Global Network Services Platform
London, July 26, 2011 – Attova, a performance led business consulting and technology services company, and Masergy, a provider of managed high-performance network solutions, today announced an agreement offering Masergy’s unique global network services platform to Attova’s financial clients. Attova is dedicated to fulfilling its clients’ IT requirements in partnership with technology partners who offer significant value through performance driven computing, superior service levels and innovative technology.
Attova selected Masergy as its sole wide-area network (WAN) partner because of the service provider’s experience in working with financial enterprises worldwide. Masergy enables seamless custom network solutions on a global scale through its advanced application transport services, cloud-based network management tools for real-time network visibility and granular control, and superior customer experience.
Filip Greenwich, Director of Attova stated, “Masergy is an essential partner within our framework. By working closely together we are confident that we are addressing our clients’ business needs, their technology adoption challenges and overall, providing a global, seamless delivery solution that is agile, scalable and secure. Masergy’s network services lower capital expenses, ensure data security and integrity and enable enterprise cloud computing strategies.”
Masergy’s global network services are specifically tailored to support the strict performance and security requirements of financial organisations. The service provider’s significant experience in the financial investments, banking and insurance sectors ensures it is the perfect partnership for Attova, with its heavy focus in the capital market space.
Greenwich continued, “Masergy’s cloud-based Intelligent Network Analyst (INA) service has proved critical in helping financial market clients identify potential problems and plan for future WAN requirements. Furthermore, its innovative Intelligent Service Control (ISC) customer portal allows organisations to control network services via a web portal for real time bandwidth adjustments without any external assistance. This is a real advantage for those facing the global cloud and the connectivity challenges associated with it.”
Richard Mathewson, Vice President Sales, EMEA at Masergy finished, “In a sector where application performance is crucial, we are confident that our network services platform will assist Attova in improving the operational efficiency and strengthening the business performance of its clients.”
About Attova
Established in 2011 to address a gap in next generation consulting and technology services for financial markets, Attova is both an innovative consultancy and a highly entrepreneurial business. Its consulting services focus on high performance business, transformational initiatives and risk/cost management.
Attova Technology Services is dedicated to maintaining an organisation’s high performance business requirements and getting the most value out of their technology investments. The technology alliance with market leaders ensures a complete solution is delivered to its clients.
From designing and fine tuning next-generation trading frameworks, optimising data centres, enabling dynamic infrastructures or technology enabling new business ventures, Attova’s services enable it to partner and support the business and technology departments of investment banks, exchanges, Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTF’s), brokers, hedge funds, market makers, liquidity providers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) and Managed Service Providers (MSP’s). More information can be found at http://www.attova.com/
About Masergy
Masergy provides managed, secure high-performance network services to enterprises that have complex needs across multiple locations. Masergy’s integrated network and software solutions enable customers to seamlessly deploy and manage IT applications, such as video, voice and data, on a global basis.
Serving customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, Masergy leverages advanced transport technologies to deliver global Ethernet services across a native MPLS network. The company pioneered customer-controlled network services and the delivery of multiple services over a single network connection.
Masergy’s customers include companies from the financial/banking, healthcare, entertainment broadcasting, hospitality/hotels and manufacturing industries. More information about Masergy is available at http://www.masergy.com.
