Stratos Global Services (SGS) is a leader in online Foreign Exchange (Forex) and CFD trading. Within the group, FXCM is a long-established forex and CFD broker founded in 1999. Serving retail and institutional clients worldwide, the business depends on a high-performance, always-on trading platform, where availability, latency, and data integrity are non-negotiable.

At the heart of that platform sits a mission-critical Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) hybrid cloud architecture, processing high-volume, time-sensitive market transactions around the clock. For a trading business, the database tier isn't back-office infrastructure, it is the business. Every millisecond of latency, every failed node, and every unplanned outage translates directly into trading risk, client impact, and revenue exposure.

The platform runs on a substantial footprint of 100 Oracle database instances spanning 43 RAC clusters across production, disaster recovery, non-production, and demo environments, all requiring the same level of 24x7x365 care around the clock.