ZeroC Cloud success story

[flangel]

Dear ZeroC team,

is there a cloud success story out there that describes how ZeroC is being used to expose an API in different languages. The clients would local APIs, that in turn would talk to the cloud.

Local API ( local PC ) --> ZeroC --> Internet -- > Cloud (Amazon/Azure..)

Any pointers would be appreciated
Frank

[Gravitas]

I too am developing a trading platform. I have just completed writing an API which allows any number of clients to access live market data (underlying + options) that is collected and databased on an Amazon EC2 machine running in the cloud. As I have a trading engine which has excellent positive expectancy, I need some way to deliver live signals (long/short/hold with %age probability) to the client apps, while keeping the IP for the trading strategy safe on the cloud. Ice fits the bill perfectly, for me at least. We did experiment with WCF, but as some of our clients want to access the API in C++ and Java, ICE was a natural fit. WCF also lacks some essential features, like multicast with IceStorm (this is excellent for publishing live market data).