Jeremiah O’Connor

The mainframe has been a cornerstone of the technical capabilities of Fidelity Investments for years. Recently, Fidelity instituted a strategic program to modernize its core brokerage platform and recast the mainframe’s capabilities into a cloud-based platform using elastic scalability and cost structures and more modern technologies while shedding technical debt.

It is common to see multiple Apache Kafka clusters synchronized across geographies for global event processing and business continuity. Continuous, highly available replication of the events and cluster state is at the heart of these architectures.

In this session, we show you how Financial Services customers can set up Amazon EMR clusters for running data analytics in heavily regulated environments. We cover everything from cloud-native Hadoop cluster considerations, configuring your cluster for security and encryption best practices, and setting up auditing and control mechanisms to limit and gain visibility into workloads being deployed.