Proximity Cloud
Specifically built for trading in capital markets, Proximity Cloud is a private environment in a fully configured, pre-built rack that can be deployed to any location in the world.
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How can Proximity Cloud push your business to the edge?
Proximity Cloud is the only fully configured, pre-installed physical capital markets environment that is fully optimised for low latency to ultra-low latency trading conditions.
Specifically designed for connectivity-rich environments using components from all low latency vendors, Proximity Cloud offers a true plug-and-play solution — just install, connect to power, and begin.
You can deploy Proximity Cloud anywhere in the world on your own site, or it can be hosted by us using Beeks Financial Cloud capability that has been built up over the past 10 years.
Get in touch with us to find out if Proximity Cloud is right for your business.
Features & Benefits
Flexibility
Tailor-made configuration of networking components, dedicated hardware and storage to your specification
Performance
Your own dedicated infrastructure gives you a performance advantage over public cloud
Security
Sensitive data is saved and managed on dedicated, secure environments reducing compliance and regulatory risk
Beeks Proximity Cloud
Purposely designed for connectivity-rich environments, it comes with physical and virtual compute capacity built-in. By combining racks together, you can tailor that capacity as your business evolves.
Proximity Cloud comprises a high-performance, private environment with connectivity to capital market counterparties, as well as public cloud service providers without compromising on security.
Single User Interface
Proximity Cloud’s single-user interface is designed to help you manage your infrastructure from end‑to‑end with ease. Scaling up and down, or deploying and removing services becomes effortless for our clients.
Integrated with Beeks Analytics, Proximity Cloud enables you to view your data in real time, as well as control access and visibility. This new interface enables point-and-click management of all of the components to optimise operations for our clients.
Beeks solutions
On demand compute 
Trading infrastructure 
Connectivity 
Managed cloud 
Beeks analytics 
Open finance 
On demand compute
A safe, scalable and robust global platform providing the full benefit of on demand compute while reducing barriers to entry and time to market. Virtual or Dedicated server solutions can be ordered via our unique customer portal.
Dedicated Servers
VPS
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Trading infrastructure
18 global data centres providing Infrastructure as a service and proximity trading services for the key financial hubs and liquidity centres across multiple asset classes. The perfect ultra-low latency environment for the electronic trading community.
Exchange and Execution
Colocation Hosting
Microwave and PTP
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Connectivity
A secure, ultra-low latency global backbone providing private access to leading cloud service providers and point to point connectivity to over 200 exchanges, execution venues, liquidity providers and market data sources globally on either a dedicated or shared basis.
Wide Area Network
Private Network
Cross Connects
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Managed cloud
Providing Low latency hosting and direct connectivity for trading application and send non-critical workloads through the public cloud to the major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
Proximity Cloud
Exchange Cloud
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
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Beeks analytics
Beeks Analytics delivers comprehensive, real-time business insight to the global financial community. Designed by industry experts to meet the specific monitoring and performance analysis needs of your firm’s complex environments.
Analytics as a Service
mdPlay
stream2Cloud
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Open finance
Driven by the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), a European directive designed to boost competition and product innovation in the finance space, leverage our private infrastructure, fully integrated in the Cloud, to mitigate significant cyber threats.
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Why Proximity Cloud?
Beeks Proximity Cloud provides a full end-to-end trading environment that is already pre-configured and ready to go, from time stamping to analytics, so you don’t need to worry.
Instead of having to buy lots of parts to rack, stack and configure, you have the agility to react quickly to customer demands and roll into new global sites fairly easily at a relatively low cost — just wheel it in, power up and you’re ready to go.
Installation
Beeks can assist with installation and maintenance, or you can use your preferred service provider: the choice is always yours.
With the ability to integrate quickly to public cloud for a truly hybrid solution; on premise workloads together with the capability to connect to all the hyperscalers, allows you to select the workloads you want on private and public cloud. Connect to your rack over an encrypted internet connection or directly from your own network.
With Proximity Cloud and our managed services offering improved infrastructure, speed and security through a private environment, businesses in the financial services industry can optimise their trading operations and systems while minimising unnecessary risk.
Why Beeks?
Proximity Cloud stands apart from other cloud products because it has been developed specifically for customers in capital markets and the financial services industry.
Beeks’ focus is on creating the ideal environment for trading and other financial markets, and we do that by providing point-to-point connectivity to 200+ global exchanges, execution venues, market data sources and liquidity providers via cloud services.
Beeks Private Cloud solutions are employed by banks, brokers, HFT organisations, financial firms, investment traders, and liquidity providers within FX, Futures and Crypto Currency asset classes to safeguard low latency environments primarily within exchange or financial services data centres.
Global Network Built for Finance
The Beeks infrastructure is rolled out to key financial data centre locations globally with the largest footprints being within the primary financial data centres (exchanges) from EMEA and AsiaPac regions as well as the Americas including NY4, LD4, TY3 and SG1 in addition to CME, SGX, LME and more.
Beeks offers banks and businesses in the financial market access to a growing number of global data centres and supports 400+ cross connects to the Financial ecosystem as well as a hardware estate of 20,000+ Virtual Machines and 3,000+ Bare Metal Servers.
Expand your operational capabilities with Proximity Cloud from Beeks.