How Vivid Adapt partnered with independent, rates-focused broker Archr to eradicate legacy IT infrastructure, fortify regulatory cyber security, and deliver an agile, cloud-ready ecosystem driven by direct access to technical expertise.
Founded on the core principles of collaborative thinking and united operations, Archr offers a unique, independent approach to rates-focused broking, standing in stark contrast to the siloed, rigid models of the wider financial industry.
Operating from strategic financial hubs in London and Dubai, the Archr team averages over 20 years of direct market experience per broker. The firm brings deep, specialised expertise in outright futures, options volatility, and exchange-traded interest rates and bonds. By combining this vast, pooled industry knowledge with industry-leading trading technology, Archr provides superior “best execution” for institutional portfolios managed by top-tier banks, asset managers, and global hedge funds.
In the high-stakes financial sector, Archr’s ability to identify transient market trends and deliver timely, accurate, high-conviction trade ideas is directly tied to the speed, security, and resilience of their underlying IT infrastructure. In an arena where algorithmic precision and rapid information transmission dictate success, any technological friction or latency poses an immediate risk to their commercial valuation and the trust of their institutional clients.

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Summary
- Replaced a slow-responding MSP with Vivid Adapt’s direct-to-engineer support model, ensuring instantaneous technical resolution for time-critical, high-stakes trading operations.
- Executed a comprehensive IT reorganisation that eliminated physical data centre colocation dependencies, shrinking the legacy hardware footprint by a factor of five.
- Proactively streamlined operations by decommissioning obsolete communications and legacy servers, serving as a vital transformational step in preparation for a resilient migration to Microsoft Azure.
- Reinvested capital freed from outdated technologies into an advanced IT security posture, ensuring strict adherence to financial regulations and achieving operational readiness for Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001 certifications.
The Challenge
For an engineering firm operating at the forefront of naval architecture, proprietary blueprints and fluid dynamics schematics represent the company’s entire commercial valuation. The protection of this Intellectual Property (IP) is paramount. GT Wings required a highly secure, frictionless ecosystem where their global workforce could collaborate remotely without jeopardising sensitive data.
Simultaneously, perfecting the aerodynamic efficiency of the AirWing™ requires vast,
computationally intensive simulations. GT Wings initially relied on Google Cloud for these HighPerformance Compute requirements. However, as their simulation demands scaled, they encountered a common hyperscaler dilemma: unpredictable, escalating monthly expenditures that strained pragmatic IT budgets, coupled with compute performance that failed to align with their aggressive commercial development timelines.
The Solution
Recognising the high-velocity demands of the financial sector, Vivid Adapt transformed Archr’s support model by providing trading desks with immediate, direct access to senior engineers, entirely bypassing traditional helpdesk delays. Concurrently, Vivid Adapt spearheaded an aggressive optimisation of Archr’s bloated legacy systems. By decommissioning redundant hardware and obsolete communications equipment, they shrank the overarching IT footprint by more than five times and completely eliminated Archr’s reliance on physical data centre colocation.
This drastic infrastructure reduction served as a proactive step, perfectly positioning Archr for an efficient, secure, and scalable migration to Microsoft Azure. Crucially, the budget freed from maintaining outdated physical assets was strategically reallocated to dramatically enhance Archr’s IT security posture. By shifting financial resources toward fortifying a modern digital perimeter, Vivid Adapt ensured strict compliance with financial regulations and established a robust framework ready for Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001 certifications.





