BATS Global Markets, a global operator of stock and options markets, and Savvis, a CenturyLink company and an outsourcing provider of managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications, has announced that BATS will use Savvis' Chicago CH4 data centre as its secondary data centre facility for all three of its U.S. markets. 

In the U.S., BATS operates two equities exchanges, the BZX Exchange and BYX Exchange, and an equity options market, BATS Options. The primary matching engines and associated trading infrastructure for these three markets are already hosted in Savvis' Weehawken, New Jersey. data centre, meaning Savvis will now provide both primary and secondary disaster recovery data centres for BATS' U.S. operations. BATS has also extended its existing services contract for hosting at Savvis' Weehawken facility.

Source: Market Watch

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