NYSE Euronext : NYSE Euronext’s U.S. Liquidity Center Wins ‘Gold Award’ from the Uptime Institute

New York, October 23, 2013 - NYSE Euronext today announced that its U.S. Liquidity Center was presented with the Uptime Institute's 'Gold Award' for data centers with three consecutive years of uninterrupted availability.  As a Tier IV guided data center designed to support the global trading community with regulated, high-performance access to markets, the U.S. Liquidity Center offers customers significant levels of reliability, redundancy and efficiency with multiple levels of service. 

"We are pleased to accept this award from the Uptime Institute that reflects our commitment to designing and maintaining an industry-leading facility that performs capably and consistently in situations ranging from extreme market activity to inclement weather," said Lawrence Leibowitz, COO, NYSE Euronext.   "As one of the first exchange operators to build and manage its own data centers, it is critical to our business that we maintain continuous availability while ensuring complete technological and structural integrity.  This award reinforces our ability to effectively manage security, power and access to fuel while becoming increasingly more efficient in all phases of operation."

NYSE Euronext owns and operates two flagship data centers in the U.S. and Europe and connects to several smaller facilities in key geographies around the world, including Chicago, Toronto, Hong Kong and Tokyo.   These award-winning designs offer managed services spanning co-location, a financial cloud platform, robust global connectivity, flexible configuration capabilities and ultra-low latency market data solutions managed by NYSE Technologies.  The Liquidity Centers offer hosted trading infrastructure solutions and market data applications allowing firms to address their trading demands while minimizing capital and operating expenses, implementation and operational risk.  In April 2013, NYSE Euronext was also named 'Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side' by Waters Technology for its inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards.

For more information on NYSE Technologies and the Global Liquidity Centers, please visit: https://nysetechnologies.nyx.com/ and http://globalliquiditycenters.com/

About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets - the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca - represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.

About Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute, a division of The 451 Group, provides independent thought leadership, certification, education and professional services for the global data center and emerging digital infrastructure industry. Uptime Institute is best known for its creation and global administration of the Tier Standard for Data Center Design, Construction and Operational Sustainability. It serves all industry stakeholders, but concentrates on enterprise and third-party data center owners and operators.

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