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Corvil Collaborates with Cisco; TS-Associates Upgrades Correlix, Outlines Strategy
The two leading latency management specialists – Corvil and TS-Associates – released news this week of collaborations, upgrades and strategy. Corvil announced a collaboration with Cisco Systems (which is also an investor in Corvil), to integrate its CorvilNet latency monitoring technology with Cisco’s Nexus 3548 switch, so that the latter can provide time stamping functionality…
Victory Snaps Up Sailfish; Expands to New Geographies, Asset Classes
Chicago-based Victory Networks, which provides co-location and technology services to boutique trading firms, has acquired New York City’s SailFish Systems in order to expand its services into new geographies and asset classes. Driving the combination are the technology needs of a growing number of startups being created by algorithmic traders leaving major players. These new…
Q&A: GigaSpaces’ Adi Paz on In-Memory Performance and Big Data
The In-Memory term is increasingly in use, and in the context of big data. We asked Adi Paz, vice president of marketing and business development at GigaSpaces Technologies, to explain the integration of in-memory and big data technologies, and what benefits can be expected. Q: Let’s begin with some GigaSpaces and XAP basics. Can you…
Perseus Rolls Certified Time Service for Regulatory Compliance, Algo Trading
Perseus Telecom has rolled out a certified time service to allow trading firms to accurately timestamp market data and transactions for regulatory and algorithmic trading purposes. The service taps technology from Certichron, which Perseus is now selling and maintaining at a number of market data centres, with more to come. Certified time is a proprietary and…
TBricks Taps QuantLINK and QuantFEED for Hosted Trading Service
Trading system TBricks has rolled out a managed, hosted variant of its automated trading software, and has partnered with S&P Capital IQ to provide market connectivity and data. TBricks OnDemand has been rolled out in Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Chicago. TBricks provides tools to allow manual and low-latency automated trading in the global markets, including options…
DDN Touts STAC Benchmark Performance
Storage vendor DataDirect Networks is pointing to new record benchmark results for financial analytics for its SFA12K-40 platform. The benchmark in question in the STAC-M3 suite, covering a number of operations on a time series of data. DDN says its hybrid spinning disk and flash memory platform outperformed “traditional storage” by a factor of eight,…
Towards Intelligent Trading: Anova Rolls Microwave to DC News Hub
Anova Technologies is taking control of a microwave wireless network connecting Equinix’s key economic news distribution hub in Washington, DC to Nasdaq OMX’s data centre in Carteret, NJ. In so doing, it’s directly connecting news sources at lowest latency into the trading markets, allowing firms to trade from signals themselves, and not from responding to…
MapR Sets New MinuteSort Record; Grabs $30 Million
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies recently announced that it had set a new world MinuteSort record using Google’s cloud-based compute offering. Following up on that, the company just raised a further $30 million in investment. The MinuteSort record saw MapR’s Hadoop offering sorting 15 billion 100-byte records (or 1.5 TB) in 60 seconds, using the Google…
Latency – All About A, B and C (for Compute)
I often describe latency as the time it takes to move data from point A to point B, and/or the time taken to process that data at points A and B. I think it’s true to say that the majority of content on this site is about moving data from A to B. But processing…
Low-Latency Summits: Looking Back and Forward
We held the latest Low-Latency Summit in London a couple of weeks ago and already the memories are distant ones. But a lot was covered, from ROI on latency investment to trading in Russia. We recorded the entire proceedings to allow you to recap the experience, or to hear what you missed. We’re now looking…