• Equinix's analysis finds continuous trading will require capital markets firms to redesign infrastructure for uninterrupted operations rather than recovery from outages.
• Exchanges moving to 23/5 trading will retain roughly one hour for daily maintenance; 24/7 markets would eliminate scheduled downtime.
• Multiple production-ready environments will increase data center capacity needs in core financial hubs, with redundant systems required to deliver equivalent trading performance.
• Hybrid architectures will keep latency-sensitive execution on private infrastructure while using cloud platforms for workloads benefiting from scalability and services.
• Continuous trading will require redundant power and cooling, alongside round-the-clock cybersecurity monitoring and incident response.

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