金融服务公司所面临的压力越来越大，他们要降低成本，改善反应时间和应用程序生产能力，同时还要为关键业务应用提供确定性“服务水平协议”（SLA）。

传统的增加硬件的方式根本无法解决此问题。通过配置基于商用硬件的筒仓计算集群减少资金成本也不是理想的解决办法，因为此法虽然减少了资金成本，但增加了操作成本，还降低了可靠性。

Financial services firms are under increasing pressure to grow revenue and market share amidst intense competition, regulations, and the growing need for enterprise risk management. At the same time customers are struggling to lower the total cost of ownership of resources, increase operating efficiency – and be faster, more agile and adaptive to changing business demands.

The traditional approach of throwing additional hardware at the problem doesn’t cut it any more. Reducing capital costs by deploying siloed compute-clusters based on commodity hardware isn’t an ideal solution either, since capital costs are reduced at the expense of increased operating costs and reduced reliability.

采用真正的网格环境，多用户、多应用程序共享虚拟储集器的计算资源——硬件和软件许可证；虚拟储集器可根据贵公司的需求自动调整、自动衡量。

Platform提供的网格计算解决方案结合商用硬件结构及高速互联科技，能使您的应用系统达到超级计算机性能，而无需高昂成本、效果可靠，几乎立刻能得到回报。

• 增加收入：更快速地开发分布式应用系统，确保IT不会成为新的业务机会的瓶颈。
• 获得更具竞争力的优势：更快地运行大量命令，开发新产品、算法和业务运行方法。这在采用网格科技之前是不可能实现的。
• 降低成本：大幅降低操作成本和资金成本，降低新设备采购延缓的发生，特别是当多用户、多应用程序登录网格时。

http://www.platform.com/NR/rdonlyres/4EFB903A-3AED-485A-90DA-B87E5D7DAB57/0/Plt_Symphony3.pdfove to a true grid environment where multiple users and applications share compute resources – hardware and software licenses – in virtual pools that adjust and scale based on your firm’s needs.

Platform's grid computing solutions, coupled with commodity hardware architectures and high-speed interconnect technologies, can deliver supercomputer performance to your applications inexpensively, reliably and with almost immediate payback.

Increased Revenue
Run your applications orders of magnitude faster (up to 80% reduction in job runtimes) – and stay ahead of your competitors.

Gain a competitive advantage
Build and test grid-ready applications independent of the underlying grid infrastructure - leading to faster time to grid-enable applications and faster time to market.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Increase server and cluster utilization to up to 95% – get more for less. And, as more applications and users migrate onto the grid, the cost savings continue to grow exponentially.

Platform Symphony: New in Symphony 3
Platform Symphony enables you to solve mission critical pricing and risk problems in real time. Platform Symphony 3 delivers several unique benefits to our Financial Services customers:

• The Power of Platform EGO – share resources across multiple applications
• Symphony Developer Edition – tailored for grid-enabling applications
• Reliability – from product reliability to company reliability