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Intel, Ion Provide SSD Boost to kdb+
A just published STAC report sponsored by Intel provides insight into performance benchmarks for Kx Systems’ kdb+ database running against an Ion Computer Systems storage appliance containing solid state disk (SSD) technology from Intel. According to the report, several tests that form part of STAC’s M3 benchmark suite – focused on the performance of historical…
Q&A: Cross River Fiber’s Michael Sevret on Connectivity and the Mahwah Opportunity
With NYSE Euronext’s announcement that it is to open up remote access into its Mahwah, NJ data centre, one can expect the network provider community to respond to the opportunity to provide new low-latency routes. First to announce its plans is Cross River Fiber. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Michael Sevret, the company’s executive vice president and…
Lime Brokerage, OneMarketData Offer Quant Trading Platform
Lime Brokerage has tapped OneMarketData to provide a hosted, on-demand analytics for real-time and historical market data covering major U.S. equities and derivatives markets. The offering – powered by OneMarketData’s OneTick tick database and complex event processing product – will deliver an on-demand cloud service that enables quantitative research, rapid design and back-testing of algorithmic…
Fixed Income with Electronic Trading
In the world of electronic trading, fixed income has seen slow uptake compared to equities and foreign exchange, mainly due to the much more complicated types of underlying financial calculations – which can require many minutes, sometimes even hours of processor time. This stands in marked contrast to electronic trading of equities or foreign exchange…
Revolution Analytics Upgrades R Platform For Big Data
Revolution Analytics has announced general availability its commercial-grade analytics suite, Revolution R Enterprise 6.0. Using the built-in RevoScaleR package, R users can process, visualise and model terabyte-class data rapidly, without the need for specialised hardware. Highlights of Revolution R Enterprise 6.0 include: Platform LSF Cluster Support – Now supports distributed computing on multi-node Platform LSF…
Bloomberg Coup as it Hires NYSE Technologies’ CEO to Spearhead Enterprise
In a coup for Bloomberg, the vendor has appointed Stanley Young, who was until very recently the CEO of NYSE Technologies, as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions Division. Young’s jumping ship to Bloomberg is a blow to NYSE Euronext but another sign of Bloomberg’s serious intent to develop the enterprise area, coming…
Will NYSE Mahwah Access Spur Latency Spend?
The decision by NYSE Euronext to open up access to its Mahwah, NJ data centre to third party co-location, and to adopt a more open connectivity policy is going to be welcome news for at least some trading firms seeking low latency, and vendors servicing them. But whether it will be the game changer it…
NYSE Technologies’ Young Heads to Bloomberg
Bloomberg has hired away NYSE Technologies CEO Stanley Young to be CEO of its Enterprise Products and Solutions (EPS) division. At Bloomberg, Young will report to Mark Pesonen, who is elevated from the CEO role to become chairman of that division. According to a Bloomberg spokesperson, Pesonen “will continue to oversee the long-term vision and…
Q&A: AMD’s John Fruehe on Standardised Servers for Financial Services
A recent event by the Open Compute Project highlighted work being done to create standard designs for servers. AMD showcased its Roadrunner specification, which is targeted at financial services. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the background from John Fruehe, AMD’s director of product marketing for enterprise products. Q: AMD recently announced its open ‘Roadrunner’ specification for servers, specifically…
NYSE Technologies To Introduce Market Data Analytics Lab
NYSE Technologies is rolling out its Market Data Analytics Lab (MDAL), providing hosted access to its historical trade and quote (TAQ) data, with the ability to perform analytics on the hosted data. MDAL will allow users to query selections of the entire TAQ database – for now covering U.S. markets – and perform analytics, downloading…