Case Study: CME Group reduces costs and boosts performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CME Group Cuts Complexity While Reducing Costs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CME Group, the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, needed a way to scale its mission-critical trading infrastructure while controlling the rising cost and complexity of its proprietary UNIX environment. As transaction volumes grew, the company looked to Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on commodity x86 servers as a more flexible, commercial-grade Linux platform.

Red Hat helped CME Group phase in the migration smoothly, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux became the foundation for the Globex trading platform and other core operations. The result was a twofold performance increase and a 50% reduction in costs in the first year, along with improved security and a strong certified ecosystem that let CME Group focus more on innovation.

CME Group

Vinod Kutty

Sr. Director