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Networking Roundup: Emulex, Gnodal, Mellanox
It’s Interop time in Las Vegas this week, so all those involved in the world of networking are making product announcements in between the high-roller parties and playing the casinos. Here are some highlights to prove that not everything that happens in Vegas, stays there. Emulex – In partnership with Myricom, introduced new OneConnect e12000 10gE…
Sandy Bridge, PCIe Gen 3 Give Tibco’s FTL a Boost
Intel’s recently introduced Sandy Bridge microchips, together with the latest PCI Gen 3 interconnect technology, is giving a performance boost to Tibco Software’s FTL messaging middleware – for both intra-server and inter-server communications. Officially known as the Xeon Processsor E5-2600 family, Sandy Bridge incorporate up to eight cores and 20 MB of cache, with integrated…
ISE and Hanweck Team for PhD Historical Tick Data
The International Securities Exchange, in partnership with Hanweck Associates, has launched the ISE Premium Hosted Database, a hosted database of historical tick data with full OPRA coverage – quotes and trades from all U.S. options exchanges – plus U.S. equities level one data, pre-computed implied volatilities and Greeks, full corporate action histories, and ISE Open/Close…
Google Releases BigQuery Analytics
Following about six months in beta, Google has released BigQuery, a cloud-based analytics service that it claims can run SQL-like queries on billions of rows of data “at Google speed.” The service is being pitched at enterprises looking to run ad-hoc queries on datasets, and leverages Google’s massively parallel cloud infrastructure to acheive its high…
Azul Zing Boosts OptionsCity Trading Performance; Releases 5.2 JVM
OptionsCity Software is leveraging the Zing Java Virtual Machine from Azul Systems to boost performance of its Freeway algorithmic trading and Metro market making systems. By taking advantage of Zing, the systems can take advantage of more robust, sophisticated and customised models, and predictable low-latency, to deliver better trading performance. Zing is a 100% Java-compatible…
With SIX Rollout, Nasdaq OMX Pushes Matching Latency Below 40 Microseconds
With SIX Swiss Exchange now up and running with its new SWXess platform, its technology supplier Nasdaq OMX can point to the fastest implementation of its X-Stream Inet matching technology, with average round-trip latencies of less than 40 microseconds. That’s probably the fastest matching engine anywhere in the world today. SWXess went live with equities…
NYSE Technologies, Bloomberg Offering Open Data APIs
This week’s formal roll out of OpenMAMA – aka the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API – from NYSE Technologies and friends (now officially hosted as a Linux Foundation project) means that trading firms and vendors now have a choice of open data APIs, the other being Bloomberg’s newly open BLPAPI. OpenMAMA – now at…
Fixnetix Taps BittWare, Altera FPGAs for iX-eCute Phase 2
Fixnetix is tapping BittWare, and its latest Altera Stratix V FPGA-based network cards, to support the second phase of its iX-eCute trade execution and pre-trade risk service. The move represents a boost for Altera, since iX-eCute originally leveraged FPGAs from rival Xilinx. “We’re pleased to be at the second phase of iX-eCute, and our newly…
Connectivity and Co-Lo Roundup: CFN, Colt, Interxion, SIX, Thomson Reuters …
It’s TradeTech time in chilly and soggy London (though I am happily writing this from sunny, 90-degree Austin) – which means a deluge of press releases that is a Big Data problem in itself. Here are some highlights, focusing on connectivity, co-lo and a bit of cloud. CFN Services – is moving into Europe, starting…
Trading Technologies/MathWorks Partner for Data Intensive Quant Trading
Trading Technologies International, which develops trading systems for the derivatives markets, has partnered with MathWorks, developer of the Matlab data analysis and numerical computation package, to link the two systems so that data intensive quantitative trading algorithms can access realtime pricing and submit orders directly to markets. The Matlab Datafeed Toolbox leverages Trading Technologies’ XTAPI…