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Gravitas designs and implements technology solutions to streamline the way you do business. We deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions tuned to your market, clients, process, and regulatory requirements. Through the depth of our team and the breadth of our services, we can meet your deadlines with assured quality.
Whether you need one project completed, or plan to outsource all of your IT services, Gravitas takes care of every detail and anticipates every concern for a smooth, worry-free implementation. We provide an unmatched level of service and responsiveness, whether you are a start-up or a more mature, established financial services firm.
Gravitas balances best practices with budgetary considerations; analyzing, designing and building powerful corporate infrastructures that readily scale to add new users and applications. Our team will implement complex networks that are secure, efficient and fault-tolerant. We ensure minimal downtime and complete transparency to end users, with no disruption to their work environments, allowing clients to focus on core business while we focus on technology. Our expertise in server management allows our team to monitor server hardware to ensure that mission-critical and infrastructure applications maintain high availability. Additionally, depending on your needs and budget, Gravitas will design SEC or NASD compliant in-house or hosted archiving solutions for your email and IM requirements.
Gravitas offers premier colocation hosting services, with options on both the East and West Coast. We maintain a dedicated space within a premier data center in the Northeast, which allows Gravitas to offer several flexible colocation solutions to meet your firm’s needs.
Fully Managed Services
- Private cage, connectivity, hardware
- Shared cage, private hardware/network silo
- Virtualized infrastructure, data protection and portability
- ASP-based commodity applications (web apps, mail, backup, VoIP)
Complete Remote Infrastructure Management
- Out-of-band remote control servers, networking devices, power
- Environmental monitoring, remote reboot
- Service availability and health monitoring
Unparalleled Data Center Facilities
- Physical security (including named personnel, US government photo ID required, biometric authorization, access logs, and security cameras)
- Industrial cooling for high-density installations, N+4 protection
- Virtually unlimited, redundant power
Gravitas offers ongoing support services with variable response times and hours of coverage scaled to meet your firm’s needs, including 24x7 call center availability. Our team can provide support on-site at your firm, or remote support with engineers based in our state-of-the-art Network Operations Center.
- Network Support
- End-User Support
If a disaster strikes, causing catastrophic system failure and major disruption of your operations, you must be prepared to mitigate risk and restore order. Your staff and clients depend on your actionable emergency response plan. Gravitas helps financial services firms protect their assets, maintain business continuity, satisfy compliance requirements, and ensure their clients’ peace of mind.
To ensure your firm’s resiliency under extraordinary circumstances, we offer everything from basic email and file hosting to a full-scale, turn-key disaster recovery facility with 24/7 remote access to all critical applications and systems, including a reserved trading desk. As business and regulatory requirements change and technologies continue to advance, we keep your disaster recovery plan current with recommended updates.
Our services include business continuity planning; disaster recovery site set-up and monitoring; and complete design, implementation, and ongoing support. Gravitas has disaster recovery facilities in a number of locations, including New York City, Secaucus, New Jersey, Westchester, New York, San Jose, California, and London, United Kingdom.
Rapidly growing investment management firms need to focus on maintaining their competitive edge, not on the logistics associated with moving offices, building out data centers or executing engineering projects. Clients can rely on Gravitas’ Project Management team to take complete ownership of these key projects, ensuring that a fund’s business continues to run smoothly and remains positioned for future success.
Services:
- Corporate relocations, new launches, data center builds
- Planning and Design
- Communications room design
- Preliminary site survey
- Implementation and turnover
- Trading turrets, telecom data, and voice line installation management
- General contractor and trade coordination
- Lease reviews
- Power and BTU budget calculations
- Cable plant design
- Construction costs and estimates review
- Desktop hardware and printers
In today’s dynamic market, regulatory, and technology environment, you need a flexible Business Continuity Plan (BCP) that anticipates growth and change. Gravitas’ seasoned technology and financial services experts guide you in the planning and management of your operations. Gravitas has developed an industry best practices Business Continuity Plan offering which helps funds prepare for disaster situations and provides a road map for continuing their operations in an organized manner. Our team’s approach includes:
- Planning Scenarios
- In-depth interviews of employees and external stakeholders
- Documenting critical processes and timelines
Among the deliverables for your custom BCP, Gravitas provides documentation, including a quick reference card and gap analysis between business continuity and disaster recovery. We will train your employees, as well as test and maintain your BCP, ensuring that it meets current industry best practices and is compliant with investor and regulatory requirements.
Our Business Consulting and Software Development teams can also implement and support your technology and operations requirements.
Contact us today to discuss your
Systems Integration needs.
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