Overcoming the Technology Triple Challenge
Man Group Uses VAST as part of DataFrame Database.
Financial Services


Overview
Man Group is a global leader in alternative investment strategies, combining performance-focused investment skill, advanced investment technology, and a client-centred approach. Man Group paired VAST with ArcticDB to manage 10PB+ tick datasets. This combo delivers the speed and scale needed for Python-native quantitative research, signal backtesting, and near-real-time automated trading.
Solutions
VAST’s solution for Man Group features a Disaggregated and Shared Everything (DASE) architecture. It unifies storage and database functions into a single scale-out namespace, providing the multi-petabyte capacity and NVMe speed required for ArcticDB's high-intensity quant research.
Results
Man Group achieved massive scale for its 10PB+ datasets, boosting quant productivity and insight. The VAST and ArcticDB synergy enables faster signal backtesting and near-real-time automated trading, transforming data handling into a flexible, multi-cloud environment for better investment alpha.
Faster quant research speed
Massive 10PB+ data scalability
Improved automated trading productivity
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