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London Stock Exchange Taps NeXXCom for Low-Latency Equinix Wireless Service
The London Stock Exchange today announced a millimetre-wave wireless service providing low-latency connectivity between its City of London data centre and Equinix’s LD4 data centre in Slough, which is host to many markets and trading firms. The service is being introduced in collaboration with NeXXCom Wireless and is likely to deliver a sub 300 microsecond roundtrip when...
DMS Review: Reference Data Utilities Offer Cost Savings, but Challenges Remain
Managed services and utilities can cut the cost of reference data, but to be truly effective managed services must be more flexible and utilities must address issues of data access and security. A panel session led by A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London set out to discover...
DMS Review: Chief Data Officers Rise Above Operations to Set Data Management Strategy
The role of chief data officer (CDO) has become increasingly prevalent in financial services firms over the past couple of years. It has no exact definition, but tends towards responsibility for strategy and change, rather than data and operations. Discussing the role of the CDO and how to measure the success of the data management...
DMS Review: LEIs and the Focus on Entity Data
The emerging global legal entity identifier (LEI) remains far from the tipping point of acceptance across global capital markets and for some it appears as a precursor to a vast mapping exercise. But the standard is gaining ground and will form an integral element of the entity data that’s increasingly needed by companies and required...
DMS Review: Emerging Technologies Respond to the Challenges of Data Management
High performance technologies can support the delivery of efficient and effective data management, but they are not the only tools for the task as financial firms strive to centralise reference data, deliver the right data at the right time, and move towards on demand, always available data. This was the assessment of a panel of...
DMS Review: Regulation, Data Complexity Seen as Key Drivers in Coming 18 Months
Regulation will be the main challenge for data managers over the next two years, but it won’t be the only challenge as data complexity and volumes increase, business users demand better data, and unstructured data becomes part of the big picture. Still more, these challenges must be tackled in an environment of cost constraint. That...
A-Team’s DMS Awards Reward Best and Brightest in the Industry
A-Team Group hosted its inaugural DMS Data Management awards ceremony at last week’s DMS event in London, with the awards presented to the great and the good of the data management community by our own president and editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney, in a bow tie no less. The awards were devised to give recognition to those...
Data Management Summit: Keynote Questions the Use of Sticks or Carrots in Data Architecture
Putting data architecture before data management, Colin Gibson, head of data architecture in the markets division of Royal Bank of Scotland, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. As well as a deep dive into data architecture, the summit considered the role of the chief data officer, drivers...
ScaleOut Pushes Hadoop Towards Low-Latency for Real-Time Analytics
OK, so the headline is a tad extreme, but bear with me. Recent developments combining in-memory technologies and Hadoop/MapReduce from ScaleOut Software point to a future where big data analytics and real-time processing, as it’s defined in the financial markets, could meet. ScaleOut has just released its ScaleOut hServer V2, an in-memory data grid, which it claims can boost...
Sapient Global Markets Adds Sentiment to Data Management Maturity Assessment
Sapient Global Markets, a division of Sapient dedicated to technology services for capital and commodity markets, is taking a sentiment-based approach to data management maturity assessment with a service that is designed to expedite the process, provide a heat map of maturity across an enterprise and inform spending decisions. The company’s Sentiment-Based Data Management Maturity...