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Red Hat OpenShift has also helped the broker prepare for future multi-cloud adoption by improving its efficiency and meeting market demand for innovative services faster .

Diego Cerqueira , CTO , Ativa Investimentos , said : “ Previously , delivery of larger or more complex solutions could take months . Now , the same size projects can be delivered in days or even a few hours , and we have 100 % availability with zero service downtime .”

Maintaining competitiveness with efficient , security-focused data processing

Ativa Investimentos is a broker with more than 35 years ’ experience and a comprehensive financial portfolio to meet the needs of Brazilian investors . To maintain its competitiveness in Brazil ’ s rapidly growing investment market , Ativa sought to improve its approach for processing , sharing and using data .

“ To meet our target of fivefold growth of our customer base , we needed to move from a traditional virtualized environment to a solution that would allow exponential growth ,” said Cerqueira .

Ativa sought to create a cloud services platform and develop an Open Banking approach , where financial institutions integrate and share data using application programming interfaces ( APIs ) to improve customer services . Additionally , Ativa sought to ensure its IT environment was compliant with Brazil ’ s General Data Protection Law ( LGPD ) that went into effect in February 2020 .

“ We know that Digital Transformation is essential . We want to keep up and be competitive in the market with a platform that is flexible , efficient and highly available ,” said Cerqueira .

The broker decided to meet its data processing and protection challenges by shifting to a cloud-native ,

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