Customer story
A global high-frequency trading firm committed three years of production Linux to RLC Pro
With 16,000 servers and its own kernel engineers, a global financial services firm running high-frequency trading committed three years of production Linux to RLC Pro with Long Term Support.
16,000+
Servers in production
Standardized on RLC Pro with Long Term Support
3 years
Committed through 2029
An agreement growing in value each year
100+
Global sites
Plus two large compute clusters
0
Signing-key friction
On LTS upgrades, backed by CIQ-signed kernels
The deployment, CIQ products, and business results
How RLC Pro secured and stabilized a global high-frequency trading environment.
- Customer
- A global high-frequency trading firm (name withheld)
- Industry
- Capital markets, algorithmic and high-frequency trading
- Environment
- Roughly 16,000 servers across global sites, plus two large compute clusters
- CIQ products
- RLC Pro with Long Term Support (LTS)
- Result
- A three-year agreement through 2029, with contract value growing each year, a defined path to RLC Pro 10, and support matched to how the firm certifies and freezes production
“CIQ operates like an extension of our own engineering team: fast, disciplined, and focused on exactly what we need. That’s worth three years.”
Why this matters beyond one trading firm
The same things that earned three years from a firm with its own kernel team hold for any environment that certifies and freezes production.
Signed kernels, consistent across every version.
LTS upgrades move on schedule, with vendor-controlled builds behind them. No re-enrolled keys, no one-off exceptions, no surprises at boot.
Backports turned around on your schedule.
Fixes land when your certification calendar needs them, not when a vendor release train happens to leave the station.
A roadmap partner from day one.
Accounts that certify and freeze production get an engineering relationship built around how they actually operate.
Read the full case study
See the full story: what the firm asked for, what changed, and why it committed three years of production Linux to RLC Pro.
Additional links
RLC Pro for regulated and high-availability production environments
Long-Term Support, FIPS 140-3 validated packages, CVE remediation, supply chain security, and support options built for regulated, high-availability production.
RLC Pro Hardened: compliance and OS-level hardening
LKRG, the FIPS 140-3 delivery model, DISA STIG and CIS compliance, and the full OS-level hardening feature set from the CIQ Linux Security team.