The bottom line.
You get the same managed Kubernetes and OpenShift platform Options runs for the rest of the industry — tuned for capital markets latency, resilience and audit obligations, and operated 24/7 by the team that built it.
No procurement pain, no lock-in, no re-platforming risk taken in the dark. A Validation Sandbox proves the fit on your own workload before you commit.
Why now.
DRAM & GPU supply crunch
Memory prices are climbing as AI pulls supply toward HBM. The refresh you budgeted at 2024 prices no longer covers it.
VMware repricing
Per-core, subscription licensing has re-set the TCO of every virtualised trading grid. The question is when, not whether, to move.
DORA operational resilience
Exit plans, ICT concentration risk and testable failover are now board-level obligations, not architecture aspirations.
AI concentration risk
Inference and model weights are the next lock-in. Sovereign options need to be in the plan before demand arrives.
Trading at market speed
A public STAC benchmark shows OpenShift matching bare-metal latency. The reason to keep trading off Kubernetes no longer holds.
The strategy.
✓ Where It Applies
- Low-latency order routing, matching and market data
- Post-trade risk, valuations and end-of-day batch
- Regulatory reporting pipelines with strict RTO/RPO
- Quant research clusters that spike and settle daily
△ Honest Edge Cases
- Sub-microsecond FPGA-anchored paths — keep on bare metal
- Vendor-appliance kernels that refuse to containerise cleanly
- Estates already mid-flight on another hyperscaler migration
How it runs on OMC.
Every workload lands on the same four-layer stack. The tier you pick changes worker isolation, not the foundation.
Standard
Shared, multi-tenant platform. Fastest way onto FSI-hardened Kubernetes.
Advanced
Dedicated worker pools with tighter data-plane isolation and custom SLAs.
Dedicated
Single-tenant control plane in your jurisdiction. Full sovereignty over data and identity.
PodOps managed service
Options FSI hardening
Red Hat OpenShift
Kubernetes
Validation Sandbox.
A signed 30-day engagement where we stand up your workload on the platform, measure it against your own success criteria, and hand you the evidence.
- ✓ No procurement, no lock-in, no obligation to continue
- ✓ Runs on your workload, measured against your criteria
- ✓ Named FSI architect from day one
This is where most capital markets conversations move from “interesting” to a costed production plan.
Engagement path.
Discovery
A working session with an FSI architect to scope the target workload and success criteria.
30-day sandbox
Your workload runs on the platform. We measure, you review, both sides sign off.
Phased production
A staged cutover with named platform owners and a rollback path at every gate.
Proof and business case.
Red Hat Premier partner, all three OpenShift specialisations · 600+ FSI customers under contract