Sporting Index CIO Eachan Fletcher doesn’t mind admitting a love for technology
Also underlying its strength is Platform Computing's Symphony grid-computing orchestration software run in house over a mostly Sun/Oracle infrastructure.
"As our coverage broadened the algorithms and volumes were getting unwieldy and that's when we turned to grid computing. I'm actually quite a fan of cloud technologies but the reason we built internally is latency. It's not about the number crunching for us; it's that we need to be able to plan 100 moves ahead and inform price choices in a second," says Fletcher.
