2015 Tech 50：Michael Cooper

云计算一直是五六年的愤怒;到目前为止，它少于系统架构的主流组件的流行语。然而，计算实用程序或共享基础设施概念早期的化身概念，一个示例是Radianz，除了15年前在15年前开始生活的名称，作为路透社集团联盟的云。由U.K.的BT集团于2005年收购，现在BT Radianz将预先和PostCloud Eras融为于金融业的关键通讯骨干，“不仅仅是一家服务提供商”迈克尔库珀，董事会和金融技术服务集团在全球银行业和金融市场内的单位和金融技术服务集团。Telecommunications is the core business of £17.9 billion-in-revenue ($27.3 billion) BT, but with thousands of financial market participants and more than 400 application and service providers on Radianz — a who’s who of brokerages, data companies, order and execution management systems and trading venues — the specialized network occupies a neutral ground that brings credibility to its dealings with clients. “We not only support their plans and strategies, we also can offer insight into where the market structure is going, how regulations are evolving and how people should respond to them,” explains Cooper, 52, who after joining the original Radianz team in 2001 headed up customer solutions, created a business technology group for BT Global Financial Services and became CTO in 2010. “Arguably, we take friction out of the market by virtue of our ubiquity.” Although cloud technology “lowers barriers to entry and achieving scale,” Cooper notes, there is a downside: The same benefits can be exploited by hackers. He cochairs one of the industry committees trying to stay a step ahead of such threats, the FIX Trading Community Cyber Security Working Group.

看到完整的故事，“2015年技术50：赛车手到边缘。“