Options, an IT services firm serving the financial sector, is to deploy ZutaCore’s liquid cooling tech across its infrastructure.

Last week, the companies announced that Options has signed on to deploy high-density, liquid-cooled compute infrastructure across its network.

The agreement gives Options clients access to ZutaCore's HyperCool, the company’s waterless, two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling solution. Options, in turn, will integrate and support ZutaCore's liquid-cooled technology as part of its broader product offering to financial services customers, enabling it to offer higher capacity rack densities.

"Compute density is increasing across every part of our clients' technology stack, and the infrastructure that supports it has to keep pace," said Danny Moore, president and CEO at Options. "Partnering with ZutaCore gives our clients access to a proven, waterless cooling technology that lets them deploy denser, more powerful compute without the operational and sustainability trade-offs that come with traditional cooling methods. This is about making sure financial services infrastructure is ready for what comes next, whether that's AI or the next generation of traditional workloads."

“As compute requirements continue to grow across AI and high-performance financial workloads, cooling architecture has become a critical enabler of infrastructure performance,” said Brian Lillie, president and chief revenue officer at ZutaCore. “Our waterless, two-phase HyperCool technology enables organizations to deploy higher-density compute while keeping water out of the IT environment, helping financial institutions prepare for the next generation of AI, analytics and trading infrastructure without compromising reliability or efficiency.”

Founded in 1993, Options Technology is a managed infrastructure platform for the global financial sector; it provides software and IT services to the likes of investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, and asset managers. Options investors include Abry Partners and Vitruvian Partners.

The company’s infrastructure reportedly spans more than 40 data centers globally, according to its sales brochures. It is a known customer of Aruba in Italy, atNorth in Iceland, and multiple Equinix and Digital Realty facilities, among others. It operates its own data center in London that opened in 2007 and offers 200 racks.

This year, Options said it took capacity in Equinix’s NY3 facility in New York and deployed a liquid-cooled environment for a Tier 1 bank at Equinix NY5.

Founded in 2016, ZutaCore provides waterless two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling. The company's tech uses closed-loop two-phase cooling, where the coolant is allowed to boil and condense (changing its phase), removing heat more effectively than simply using heat conduction.

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn and HVAC firm Carrier are investors, with Samsung and Mitsubishi taking stakes in the company earlier this year.