Preview: A-Team’s 4th Annual London Low-Latency Summit Set for February 19
The headline states the basics that you need to know about – London on Tuesday, February 19. The Low-Latency Summit has been running in London (OK, under some aliases) since 2010, evolving along the way with a focus this spring on ‘convergence’ – which means how low-latency, cloud and big data technologies are combining to...
Q&A: January’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
It’s a new year, and it brings with it new questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … Q: What does the potential acquisition of NYSE Euronext by IntercontinentalExchange mean for the exchange group’s NYSE Technologies unit? A: Ah, an easy one to begin 🙂 Well, it’s going to take a few months for the transaction to close,...
IT Innovation Pays Dividends for Financial Leaders
By Thomas Kejser, Fusion-io www.fusion-io.com Time is money. In the finance industry, the truth of this adage has driven leaders to the forefront of the technology adoption curve. When microseconds and milliseconds mean the difference between profits and losses, financial organisations soon build up teams of phenomenal IT experts to ensure the infrastructure powering the...
Thomson Reuters’ Craig: The Future is Cloud
Thomson Reuters expects the financial markets to move to a cloud-based, managed services delivery model, and it is positioning its Elektron platform to meet that requirement, says David Craig, president of the company’s Financial & Risk unit. Craig was interviewed by A-Team’s Andrew Delaney, for sister community ReferenceDataReview.com. By leveraging the Elektron infrastructure, Thomson Reuters...
Messaging Challenges Over The WAN
Many global companies, especially in the front office of capital markets, have a strategic need to send real-time data from one location to another, often thousands of miles away, over a Wide Area Network (or WAN) connection. With foreign exchange, for example, global investment banks send dealable streaming prices, orders, trades, and reference data across...
NLX Leverages Genium Inet, Equinix For Low Latency
Nasdaq OMX’s planned London-based NLX derivatives exchange will leverage the exchange group’s own Genium Inet technology to ensure low-latency matching. The exchange will base its primary matching engine at Equinix’s popular LD4 facility in Slough, west of London, where co-lo facilities will be available. When it begins operating in Q1 of 2013 (if the regulators...
Q&A: November’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
The Low-Latency Summit in New York City the other week created a lot of discussion and lots of questions to me. So here is a sampling from that busy day, along with my thoughts. Q: One of the conference sessions was focused on latency reduction and ROI. What was your take away from that? A:...
Q&A: Bruce Tolley of Solarflare on Customised Compute
Marrying compute power with low-latency network communications is increasingly necessary for financial applications looking to combine intelligence with outright speed. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke with Bruce Tolley, vice president of solutions marketing at Solarflare Communications to get his take on this emerging trend. Q: What is the ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE), and how is it related to your...
Nasdaq Looks to Wireless For Data Connectivity
The Nasdaq Stock Market plans to distribute its data feeds via a low-latency wireless service, and to offer wireless-delivered data to trading firms located at its Carteret, NJ co-location facility. Those plans are outlined in a filing that the exchange is required to make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to establishing fees...
Financial Markets Data Centres Survive Sandy Devastation
Judging by feedback from various industry people in the New York City region, the principle data centres serving the financial markets survived the onslaught of Monday night’s Hurricane Sandy without any problems. One exception was a power issue at the 111 8th Avenue carrier hotel. Several data centres remain on generator power, though fuel deliveries...