Iain Mortimer, Merrill Lynch

Iain Mortimer is Chief Architect for Merrill Lynch Global Business Technology with responsibility for application architecture, strategy and governance. In addition he manages the architecture function for a global transformation initiative focussed on application availability.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch Iain held senior architecture positions at Microsoft and for a very long time at Barclays. He specialises in transforming highly distributed enterprise wide architectures.

Presentation: "Keeping 99.95% up time on 400+ key systems at Merrill"

Track: Banking: Complex high volume/low latency architectures

Time: Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Abbey Room

Abstract:

Information Technology can be an exciting specialism in any organisation. Any particular vertical sector can boast a few key challenges (speed, availability, volume, geographic distribution, time, cost) but architects can usually offset one off against another.

This is generally not the case in Investment Banking. Where, to maintain a firm's position in the arms race all of these factors must be pushed to the limits of technology.

This session focuses on how Merrill Lynch is transforming systems management to achieve availability above >99.95%. Tackling the challenges of developing a global monitoring capability will be a particular focus for the session.

Target audience: Architects, Operations, CTO/CIO