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Redline Slashes Latency With InRush 3
Redline Trading Solutions has released version 3 of its InRush tick plant, which leverages the latest Intel chips to slash “apples to apples” processing latency from five to just 1.2 microseconds. According to Redline CEO Mark Skalabrin, the latency figures quoted relate to InRush (version 2 versus version 3) running purely on Intel chips, and…
Q&A: Fiberblaze’s Troels Gert Nielsen on TCP Offload Approaches, Altera FPGAs and Opening Up in The Big Apple
Trading firms – especially those into HFT – are always looking for a technology edge, and customised solutions can provide it. The custom approach is what Fiberblaze specialises in, though that’s not stopping it releasing a more generalised product this month. Embracing Altera FPGAs, and opening an office in New York City is also in…
Nasdaq Releases FPGA-Accelerated Data Feed
Nasdaq has gone live with a version of its TotalView Itch full depth equities feed driven by FPGA technology. The feed is being directed at trading firms that are particularly latency sensitive, with no queuing during data bursts that occur at peak trading periods. The TotalView Itch 4.1 FPGA feed is identical in format to…
Tervela, Teradata Partner To Move and Distribute Big Data
Messaging specialist Tervela is partnering with analytics database vendor Teradata, to deliver solutions for moving and distributing big data. The alliance will help customers upload their data into Teradata’s data warehouse for analysis, and will also allow rapid distribution of data across multiple warehouses. “We are seeing demand for high performance data movement in capital…
Terracotta Taps Gilthorpe as CEO
Software AG’s Terracotta unit has appointed former Tibco Software veteran Robin Gilthorpe as its CEO. “This is a pivotal time to be joining Terracotta, as the company becomes a major growth driver for the Software AG Group. In-memory and related technologies will be fundamental to deriving real value from big data,” comments Gilthorpe, who is…
Ullink Continues Focus on Ultra Low Latency With Azul Zing Partnership
Ullink is continuing its focus on squeezing microseconds of latency from its trade execution and pre-trade risk systems, by partnering with Azul Systems, which offers a low and predictable latency Java virtual machine (JVM). Laurent Useldinger, CEO of Ullink, comments: “We have been testing the capabilities of the Azul solution for sometime; during that period…
Low Latency EMS, Connectivity Push Into New Asset Classes, Geographies
Accelerating a trend that began perhaps a couple of years ago, vendors of execution management systems, and of connectivity and co-lo services, are continuing to push into new trading opportunities, beyond the core equities markets of major financial centres. Indeed, a raft of news in recent days – as the business world gets going after…
Q&A: ParStream’s Mike Hummel on Bringing Low Latency to Big Data
Bringing low latency to the world of big data is what ParStream – which recently raised $5.6 million in series A funding – has been working on now for several, years, with some impressive results. We talked to the company’s CEO Mike Hummel to find out more about the company and its technology. Q: First,…
IBM Pitches EC12 Mainframe at Big Data, Cloud Apps
The result of more than $1 billion in R&D, IBM has introduced its latest System z mainframe, the EC12 – and it is pitching it at enterprise data and cloud applications. The mainframe is based on IBM’s proprietary chips, featuring 32 nanometre designs and running at 5.5GHz. Also included is transactional memory, a variant of…
TS-Associates Look To Cut (Cycling) Latency in The Alps
Those civic-minded chaps at TS-Associates are participating in The Alpine Challenge in early September – cycling a series of mountain stages in the French Alps – all for the UK Youth charity. The company is fielding a four-person team (though not CEO Henry Young, as he claims he has a bad knee), who will compete…