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Revolution Analytics Upgrades R Platform For Big Data

Revolution Analytics has announced general availability its commercial-grade analytics suite, Revolution R Enterprise 6.0.  Using the built-in RevoScaleR package, R users can process, visualise and model terabyte-class data rapidly, without the need for specialised hardware. Highlights of Revolution R Enterprise 6.0 include: Platform LSF Cluster Support – Now supports distributed computing on multi-node Platform LSF...

Bloomberg Coup as it Hires NYSE Technologies’ CEO to Spearhead Enterprise

In a coup for Bloomberg, the vendor has appointed Stanley Young, who was until very recently the CEO of NYSE Technologies, as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions Division. Young’s jumping ship to Bloomberg is a blow to NYSE Euronext but another sign of Bloomberg’s serious intent to develop the enterprise area, coming...

FSB’s New LEI Deadline Puts Market Under Pressure Amid Continued Uncertainty

The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) decision to set a deadline of March 2013 for the introduction of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system may be tight, but industry experts say it can be achieved by using existing infrastructure and following the board’s federated approach to a global solution. The deadline was set by the...

NYSE Technologies’ Young Heads to Bloomberg

Bloomberg has hired away NYSE Technologies CEO Stanley Young to be CEO of its Enterprise Products and Solutions (EPS) division. At Bloomberg, Young will report to Mark Pesonen, who is elevated from the CEO role to become chairman of that division. According to a Bloomberg spokesperson, Pesonen “will continue to oversee the long-term vision and...

Will NYSE Mahwah Access Spur Latency Spend?

The decision by NYSE Euronext to open up access to its Mahwah, NJ data centre to third party co-location, and to adopt a more open connectivity policy is going to be welcome news for at least some trading firms seeking low latency, and vendors servicing them. But whether it will be the game changer it...

Avox Replaces Free Wiki-Data Service with AvoxData

Avox, a DTCC subsidiary and provider of reference information on legal entities, is replacing its free wiki-data service with AvoxData, a web service that will continue to provide free wiki-data type content, but also a subscription element for access to more detailed business entity records. AvoxData was developed with an Avox client and went live...

BTG Pactual Transforms Data Management with Asset Control’s AC Plus

Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual is implementing Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to optimise data and risk management ahead of a major push into international markets. The implementation of the data management system, one of the first in Latin America, is under way with a deadline to finish the initial stage of the...

Q&A: AMD’s John Fruehe on Standardised Servers for Financial Services

A recent event by the Open Compute Project highlighted work being done to create standard designs for servers. AMD showcased its Roadrunner specification, which is targeted at financial services. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the background from John Fruehe, AMD’s director of product marketing for enterprise products. Q: AMD recently announced its open ‘Roadrunner’ specification for servers, specifically...

NYSE Technologies To Introduce Market Data Analytics Lab

NYSE Technologies is rolling out its Market Data Analytics Lab (MDAL), providing hosted access to its historical trade and quote (TAQ) data, with the ability to perform analytics on the hosted data. MDAL will allow users to query selections of the entire TAQ database – for now covering U.S. markets – and perform analytics, downloading...

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three Reasons to Be (Cheerful) at DMS

It’s taken a full week to recover from our Data Management Summit last week. More than 200 London market practitioners gathered to hear from a formidable cast of reference data and enterprise infrastructure characters. It was an action-packed day, with plenty of news you can use (or could, if you were there), earnest discussion, and...