A decade ago the equities and derivatives industries pioneered managed services and hosting with the intent of eliminating internal costs, transferring operational risk, and decreasing latency from order execution. By successfully outsourcing either the full server infrastructure or locating this infrastructure near, or within, the buildings of the world’s major exchanges, other asset classes such as equities and FX began to take notice of how effective managed services and hosting can actually be. Now as commodity trading and risk management becomes ever more technologically mainstream, dynamic and global, they have been pegged by many industry insiders as one of the next asset classes to pursue a fundamental decision in making hosting and managed services part of their overall business strategy.