About Our Trading and Financial Market Services

[Andy S]

History of Steadfast Networks
Steadfast Networks, originally founded in August 1998 operates thousands of servers in the Chicago and New York areas (spread over tens of thousands of square feet of datacenter space). Steadfast is financially stable and independent and has a long track record of providing reliable service. We’ve been featured many times in Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US.

All of Steadfast’s support is done in-house, in the United States, and is not outsourced like many other firms. We also do not hide our facilities or equipment; simply contact us, and we will be more than happy to give you a full tour of our data center facilities. If you ask a question, we guarantee we will give you a straight and honest answer. We believe in a strong responsibility to our customers and to our environment through the Steadfast Networks Green Initiative.

Why Choose Steadfast Networks?
The staff of Steadfast Networks has vast experience with trading-related technologies and services. Aside from our main technology partners (Cisco, Arista, Dell, Citrix, and Microsoft) we specialize in making sure we are familiar with the facilities, services and products our financial services clients need. We have experience with direct exchange and execution connections to NASDAQ, NYSE/ARCA, BATS, DirectEdge, CBOE, CME, ICE and more. We also have experience with many market data providers and solutions and offer our own market data infrastructure. By utilizing our variety of solutions available we are able to provide our customers a low-latency infrastructure for connecting to market data feeds and for executing trades.

Services Available for Trading and Financial Market Customers:
Dedicated Servers - Lower your latency by moving your platform closer to the market to fill more orders
Colocation - Proximity colocation near major exchange matching engines
Cloud Virtual Machines - Startup a secure trading platform in a matter of seconds
Marker Data - Low-latency market data from all the major exchanges
Network Services - IP transit and transport services for interconnecting sites or providing a general connectivity solution at competitive rates
Monitoring - Proactive monitoring 24/7/365 so we are able to fix critical systems before they affect trading
Security Services - We offer firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection systems (IDS), vulnerability scanning, log management, email filtering, and more

We invite you to join us here in the trading and financial market service forum to get your questions answered, post about your experiences, and connect with the people here at Steadfast.

[kerrycampbell]

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