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