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Nasdaq OMX NLX Achieves Low Latency and Rising Trade Volumes in Start-up Phase
Nasdaq OMX NLX opened for business on the last day of May, offering a market for European short-term and long-term interest rate derivatives designed to provide ease of access, efficiency and the flexibility to respond to customer demands and list new products rapidly. Fast forward a couple of weeks and Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of NLX,…
About Software AG’s Acquisition of Apama
This must be the week for complex event processing (CEP) operations to change ownership. Following on from the news of Tibco Software snapping up StreamBase Systems comes word that Software AG is acquiring the Apama division of Progress Software. The acquisition is an opportunistic one for Software AG, though it does fit nicely into its ‘big…
About Tibco’s Acquisition of StreamBase
For those that have not heard, Tibco Software has acquired StreamBase Systems. Sure, the deal adds complex event processing to messaging, and if it had happened a few years back that probably would have been the story. But while low(-er) latency is part of many data integration plays these days, the driver for this marriage…
STAC Redline and Kx Benchmarks Illustrate Leverage of Hardware Advances
Two benchmark tests from STAC relating to low-latency trade execution and analytics illustrate how applications are benefiting from hardware advances to boost performance. The tests – on Redline Trading Solutions’ InRush market data platform, and on Kx Systems’ kdb+ database – demonstrate different approaches to leveraging hardware functionality related to Intel’s latest Xeon “Sandy Bridge” microprocessors. In the case…
Q&A: ScaleOut Software’s Dave Brinker on Scaling In-Memory for Big Data Financial Applications
In-memory technology is finding new applications in the financial markets and in big data processing. We found out how ScaleOut Software is addressing these needs from the company’s COO Dave Brinker. Q: How did ScaleOut Software get started – what’s in the name and what is its focus? A: ScaleOut Software was founded by William…
NovaSparks’ STAC-M1 Benchmark Highlights Determinism Under Load
A just released STAC Report covering the performance of NovaSparks’ FPGA market data platform highlights not just its processing latency but also the deterministic nature of that latency under different data loads. The STAC-M1 benchmark (as defined by financial markets participants and administered by the Securities Technology Analysis Center) measures the performance of direct data…
Solace Boosts Messaging Appliance Throughput to 1.7PB/Day
Messaging specialist Solace Systems has introduced new network acceleration blades for its 3260 messaging appliance, capable of 40 gigabits/second bi-directional data transfer. That adds up, says the company, to a 80 gigabits/second total transfer rate, or 1.7 petabytes per day. Solace’s new offering is addressing the growing need to support “big data in motion” –…
Czech Securities Trader RSJ Uses Kx’s kdb+ to Handle 255 Million Records a Day
Prague-based securities trader RSJ evaluated a number of open source databases and SAP’s Sybase IQ solution before selecting Kx Systems’ kdb+ database platform to support its algorithmic trading. Kdb+ replaces in-house developed proprietary solutions at RSJ, which is the largest trader of financial derivatives in the Czech Republic, the biggest trader on NYSE Liffe and…
In-Memory Heats Up for Low Latency and Big Data
Last week I was in Orlando for SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW event, where the main focus was not on the company’s highly successful business and data warehouse applications – revenues in 2012 were around $20 billion – but on a product introduced in late 2010 and said to be its fastest selling ever. Mysteriously named HANA…
Low-Latency Summits: Looking Back and Forward – One More Time
Just a quick post to point back to the recent outing of our Low-Latency Summits, held in New York City on May 1. And also a point forward to our next Summits in the Fall. We audio recorded all of the sessions from May 1, and pulled in what presentations we were allowed, adding in…