We are pleased to announce our membership of the STAC Benchmark Council, joining an exclusive community of leading financial institutions and innovative technology vendors -dedicated to advancing solutions in financial services.
The STAC Benchmark Council is only open to selected vendors who meet strict criteria and offer innovative and validated solutions to the sector.
We now join a community of over 500 financial institutions and more than 70 vendors who work together to address the real challenges facing financial services.
The two main aims of the council are:
Industry innovation: Highlighting important technical challenges and exploring emerging solutions in financial services
Industry standards: Developing technology benchmark standards that are useful to financial organisations
Solving the tech problems faced by financial firms
As well as developing standards and benchmarks for technological products and services, the council brings financial businesses and vendors together to discuss engineering challenges and emerging solutions.
It focuses on areas where new technology has great potential to solve strategic problems – where innovations intersect important business workloads, across fast data, big data and big compute.
The workloads tend to be challenging from an engineering perspective, because high performance is a core requirement.
Council members gather at large STAC Summits in New York, London, Chicago and Asia, and in small working groups focused on specific issues.
As a provider of technical solutions to the financial services sector, our membership of STAC puts us at the centre of innovation in this sector.
CoreStation – bridging the gap between traditional desktops and VDI
The aims of the council align with our own goals to develop technological solutions for financial services that deliver the best possible balance of performance and efficiency.
Our CoreStation range in particular has been designed to solve some of the problems faced by power users within the financial services sector.
Our new CoreStation HX development, for example, directly addresses the concerns raised by many of our customers regarding the performance limitations and increasing cost of deploying virtual desktops. HX combines the high clock speeds and power efficiency of a desktop computer, with the durability, scalability and manageability of data center hardware.
It’s also helping financial institutions to leverage AI capabilities without sacrificing performance – a key issue for the sector currently.
James Grundon, Solutions Director at Amulet Hotkey, said: “With 30 years of experience in the financial services sector and our own manufacturing facility based here in the UK, we’re delighted to have a seat at the STAC Benchmark Council table.
“We are always innovating and it is critical that we understand the challenges facing the industry so that we can bring the right solutions to market. Our new CoreStation HX offering is a great example of this approach because it directly addresses a series of challenges that our customers and prospects have highlighted to us regarding the cost and complexity of VDI. This ground up design demonstrates our ability to understand and respond to the needs of this sector, as well as our unique engineering and manufacturing capabilities.
“We already work with some of the world’s biggest banks and most innovative organisations within this sector, and we look forward to building on this further as part of the STAC Benchmark Council.
“Membership of the council will ensure we remain aligned with the industry’s needs and enables us to play a key role in developing the standards and solutions which will advance and protect the sector for the future.”
