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Corvil Pushes Latency Management Towards Big Data
With an effective storage capacity of 60 terabytes, Corvil’s new CNE-7300 latency measurement appliance can retain tick data over an extended period, potentially making it useful as a data archive for ‘big data’ applications beyond latency management. According to Donal O’Sullivan, head of product management at Corvil, the CNE-7300 will likely be able to store...
IBM Grabs Texas Memory Systems
IBM is acquiring Texas Memory Systems, which sells RamSan solid state memory appliances and PCIe cards. Terms were not disclosed, though privately-held TMS has been looking for an acquirer for some months in order to scale its business. IBM is already a reseller of TMS products, though TMS has such relationships with many companies, including...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – The Curse of Approved Supplier
We were saddened to learn earlier in the summer of the demise of Hyper Rig, a pioneer in the area of risk aggregation. To us, Hyper Rig’s commercial offering seemed as close as one could get to meeting practitioners’ stated requirement for a means of deriving risk measurement/management information from the broad range of relevant...
CICI Utility Goes Live in Preparation for CFTC’s October OTC Reporting Rule
The initial implementation of the DTCC’s and Swift’s CICI Utility Portal has gone live at https://ciciutility.org. The release of the site – which aims to support Phase 1 of global assignment of the CFTC’s Interim Compliant Identifiers by providing timely and accurate entity records – comes a month after the DTCC and Swift were named...
Big Data – The Other Side of Low Latency
We write a lot here about the latency of moving data from point A to point B. But latency is also inherent in the processing of that data at points A and B. Most likely, the processing of data is a more complex undertaking than transporting it. And that’s where big data comes in. For...
Cisco Readying New Nexus 3500 Low-Latency Switch
Details are scarce but a mid-September launch for Cisco Systems’ new Nexus 3500 top-of-rack switch is in the cards, a product that will reduce latency significantly compared to its current offerings. Cisco execs aren’t denying the switch is coming, but neither are they spilling the beans. Press coverage suggests the 3500 will have port-to-port latency...
Q&A: August’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
Continuing the monthly Q&A where I cover some of the questions I get asked as I interact with the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … from Knight Capital to Correlix to wireless. Q: How much was low latency technology to blame for the huge trading loss at Knight Capital? A: Blame? Not at all in my book. For...
Andrew’s Blog – Musical Chairs (Part 94)
A couple of months ago, I was surprised to learn while on a Greek mountainside of Stanley Young’s appointment as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions division. At the time, we speculated that more activity may be afoot, suggesting that Young may be to NYSE Technologies and Bloomberg what Jon Robson was to...
New AvoxData Legal Entity Portal to Host Value-Added Data Sets
Avox’s new enhanced legal entity data portal, released last week at www.avoxdata.com, will provide the preferred delivery system for Avox as it integrates value-added data sets to its core identifier offerings. The new capability – not to be confused with parent DTCC’s planned legal entity identifier utility scheduled for imminent release – gives clients secure...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Spreadsheet Wars Reprised
In an interview with the excellent Robert Elms on BBC Radio London the other day, author and autistic savant Daniel Tammet said something along the lines of: “Mathematics is more about how you came up with the answer than the answer itself.” Tammet was promoting his forthcoming new book, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates...