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Q&A: Bay Microsystems’ Gerry Jankauskas on Wide Area Network Latency Optimisation
As trading firms roll out their operations across geographies, connectivity and associated latency considerations move focus from local network fabrics to wide area ones. And that presents many new challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com connected with Gerry Jankauskas, CTO at Bay Microsystems, to find out what part his company plays in the solution. Q: When was Bay Microsystems…
Anova Deploys Millimetre Wave Technology For New Jersey Wireless Network
When Anova Technologies announced recently that it had deployed a wireless network linking NYSE Euronext to Direct Edge, one word was missing from its press release: microwave. That’s because the connectivity specialist has gone in a different technology direction to the one in vogue right now as the basis for its wireless offerings. The radio…
Dell/RainStor Partner For Big Data Storage and Analysis
Dell has partnered with big database vendor RainStor for its Dell Big Data Retention solution, which acts as data repository for large datasets, either to support analytics, or as long-term archiving. For the financial markets, the solution is being pitched at firms needing to process large quantities of time series, transactional or unstructured data, or…
Amazon Taps SSDs For High Speed Storage and Analytics
Amazon Web Services has introduced High I/O instances for its EC2 compute cloud, leveraging solid-state disks (SSDs) to speed up storage I/O. The SSDs can deliver 120,000+ read and 80,000 write operations per second. Although pitched at companies providing consumer apps, such performance would help to make AWS more attractive to running financial analytics, perhaps…
Twin Lakes Set To Roll Aurora-Chicago Microwave Service
Chicago-based Twin Lakes Ventures plans to next month roll out microwave service between the Chicaco Mercantile Exchange’s Aurora, Il data centre and the popular proximity centre and telecom carrier hotel at 350 East Cermak Street in downtown Chicago. Twin Lakes is tapping the services of CCSI, whose principals founded the company. CCSI designs, builds and…
Low-Latency Connectivity Provides Summer Buzz
The summer months are usually pretty quiet in the world of low-latency trading, and that’s generally true this year, except in the world of connectivity. We’ve been reporting a bit on various wireless initiatives – and there’s more to come – but there’s also been a fair amount of action in the traditional wide area…
Q&A: Corvil’s Donal Byrne Puts Latency Under The Lens
Latency management specialist Corvil has introduced its Trade Lens functionality, designed to map the technicalities of latency management onto trading business operations. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Corvil CEO Donal Byrne to get the details. Q: Can you describe what Trade Lens does, and why it’s of benefit to trading operations? A: The Trade Lens transforms the…
Xenomorph Adds Heatmaps, Charting to TimeScape
Xenomorph has released new Data Analysis and QL+ Explorer add-ins for it TimeScape Workbench data management platform, enhancing its reporting and charting capabilities and introducing new interactive heatmaps for visual data validation and decision support. Through the enhancements, users will be able to configure default charts and analytical functions to be applied to each asset…
Exegy Intoduces Journal and Replay For Tick Data Analysis
Ticker plant vendor Exegy has released its Journal and Replay system, designed to allow regulators, compliance groups, quants, and technicians to have access to raw tick-by tick data, time stamped to the nanosecond. Journal and Replay allows customers to capture and recreate every trade, quote, order book price, update, halt, modify or cancel sent from…
Bouchard Rolls AlgoFast Event Driven Trading Platform
Chicago-based Bouchard Systems has unveiled its AlgoFast suite of execution software, focused on processing machine readable news feeds to drive trading decisions. In its first release, the software supports trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with execution via Interactive Brokers. Founder Justin Bouchard – who comes with many years of cross-market trading experience – says…