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BlackRock Taps Panopticon for “Big Data Challenge”
Investment manager BlackRock is tapping Panopticon for its suite of information visualisation products, including its Developer SDK for Java and .NET, the Panopticon EX enterprise application and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit. The tools will allow BlackRock to deploy Panopticon Treemap, Heatmap and other interactive data visualisation tools to support its internal operations and in…
Nexxcom Pushes Down Latency with Wireless Networks in NY/NJ and London Metros
With services aimed at the financial trading community, Nexxcom Wireless is rolling out its microwave wireless data network in the NYC/NJ and London, UK metro areas, beating the latency of fibre-optic wired services by a significant margin. The company has provided these latency figures for several popular routes: PATH LATENCY RTT* SPEED of LIGHT** Carteret,…
HKEx Announces Initial Hosting Ecosystem Members
Ahead of its Q4 launch for hosting services, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced 22 service providers that will set up to provide co-lo and connectivity to the exchange’s core trading platform. “The initial group of founding members, covering telecommunications, market data and financial technology services, provides an excellent base for our…
Hibernia Goes Live With NYSE/Nasdaq Link, Co-Lo
Hibernia Atlantic has gone live with a new fast fibre optic link, connecting Nasdaq’s data centre at 1400 Federal Boulevard in Carteret, NJ, with a popular carrier hotel at 165 Halsey Street in Newark, NJ, where NYSE Euronext maintains a point of presence for its SFTI network, which connects into its matching engines. Hibernia is…
McObject Adds Partners in U.K. and India
McObject, developer of the eXtremeDB in-memory database, is extending its sales reach and integration capability by partnering with Spreadbrokers in the U.K. and NSE.IT in India. Spreadbrokers based in London specialises in low-latency technology for financial markets, and will target buy-side and sell-side firms, with a focus on the data management aspects of portfolio optimisation,…
S&P Returns to Real-time with QuantHouse Acquisition
It was at the beginning of 2003 that Standard & Poor’s sold its real-time data feeds business – Comstock – to what was to become Interactive Data Corporation in order to concentrate on its then core businesses – ratings, evaluated pricing, reference data. Now, with a lot of water under the bridge, it’s back in…
Actian/Lenovo Team for Vectorwise Appliance
Actian and Lenova have announced the Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance, a hardware/software appliance aimed at hosting big data analytics. The package combines Actian’s Vectorwise columnar database, which has been tuned to run on Lenovo’s ThinkServer platform. Vectorwise has been written to leverage vector-based parallel processing and on-chip cache memory, which is faster to access than…
Taking Stock – The True Cost of Data
By David Renn, Principal Consultant, Citisoft The size of the data spend in financial services is astounding, but even more incredible is the lack of transparency and knowledge around these costs. Citisoft believes that the true cost of ownership of data is often unknown, inaccurate or poorly calculated. At a time when regulatory, client due…
Q&A – From Yesterday’s London Low-Latency Summit
Industry experts in the morning panels at yesterday’s Low-Latency Summit in London responded to a number of questions posed by moderator Pete Harris of IntelligentTradingTechnology.com. Here is some of the wisdom shared … Q: Trading firms want to be smarter, leveraging technology to be wiser with respect to their trading strategies. Do you agree? Where…
Arista Debuts Application Switch; Embeds FPGAs Into Network for Lowest Latency
Sun Microsystems might have coined the the slogan “The Network Is The Computer” but it is Arista Networks that is today delivering on the concept with its first Application Switch, which embeds FPGA processing into a switch so that business logic can really be run in the networking fabric itself with lowest-latency data access. With…