West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager Eze Castle Integration has introduced a web version of its "hedge fund hotel" for small hedge funds with fewer than 10 people.

The company introduced the fully managed physical suite in November 2007 and Eze says that the new offering has many of the same options now, over the Internet, using Citrix servers and thin clients. Users pay a monthly subscription fee for this hosted platform using their own desktops and basic networking.

"We act as a cloud," says Bob Guilbert, managing director. "As we add more applications to our back end data center, we’ll enable clients to get things like CRM services, accounting services and anything else that might be necessary to run a back office operation. The benefit of this solution is they don’t have to build out an IT infrastructure, they don’t have to build out a data center. That makes it very easy for them to become operational."

Alex Akesson