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Exclusive: A Preview of Benchmarks for Tibco’s FTL 1.1
Las Vegas is the destination this week for many Tibco users attending its annual Tucon event. The highlight for many might well be a show by 90s rockers Train at the big party on Wednesday night. But for all of us in the low-latency world, the focus will be on Tuesday’s keynote, when benchmarks for…
Q&A: Redline’s Mark Skalabrin on Goldman, and Why Cell is Better!
It’s not often one hears about vendor wins at publicity-shy Goldman Sachs, so it was intriguing to learn how they’re making use of hardware acceleration. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Mark Skalabrin, CEO of Redline Trading Solutions, to find out more about the deployment, and why Cell processors rather then FPGAs are in vogue at Redline….
India Wins Shine Light on McObject’s eXtremeDB
In-memory database vendor McObject is new to me, though recent Indian customer press releases – here and here – piqued my interest. It seems the company has been around for a good few years, has around 300 customers, including a few in the financial markets, and has built some interesting technology, called eXtremeDB. The secret…
Connectivity in South America
With a limited exposure to the current financial crisis, Latin America, and Brazil in particular, are both attractive markets for investors who are willing to diversify their exposure and explore new destinations with the potential to generate high returns. Trading infrastructure and technology has also largely benefited from new investments over the last few years,…
Top Seven Low Latency Technology Advances
Technology in the Capital Markets changes quite rapidly. In order to stay competitive, business and IT leadership must learn about new approaches, techniques, technologies, and how to integrate it all together. Whether your role is as an architect, vendor, developer, analyst, or decision maker, it is vital to gain an understanding of these new areas…
Deutsche Bank’s Roth Named Elektron Head at Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters has filled a gap in the senior ranks of its Enterprise Solutions unit, with the appointment of Deutsche Bank’s Ralf Roth to the role of global head of Elektron Transactions and Strategy. Elektron is the company’s managed hosting and co-location offering, providing low-latency market data, risk management, analytics and transactional services. At Deutsche…
Opinion: MiFIR – Flat-Packed Furniture Without the Instructions?
By Matthew Coupe, director of sales and marketing, Redkite Financial Markets The proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has left me questioning what this piece of European regulation is actually going to achieve. Will the final legislation give the financial industry a set of clear-cut rules to follow and be accountable to? Or is…
Celoxica Extends FPGAs to Transactions, HFT Futures
With the release of its latest Container offering, Celoxica – an early adopter of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology for market data feed handling – is extending its functionality to handle transactional messages, such as outbound orders. The focus of this new functionality – says Celoxica president Lee Staines – is to support trading…
NovaSparks Cites Nanosecond Performance of FPGA Data Appliance
NovaSparks has released performance data for its FPGA-based data feed appliance based on the highly volatile market conditions in August, noting average latencies of 400 nanoseconds, and extreme cases of 900 nanoseconds. On test was NovaSparks’ Gen2 appliance, which is based entirely on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology (i.e. unlike some competing products, no…
Burstream Rolls NanoSpeed Mesh – Sub-Microsecond Managed Data Service
Burstream – a new entrant to the market data space – has gone live with the first market on its NanoSpeed Mesh, a managed service leveraging FPGA-based technology from NovaSparks (see separate post here). The company is now delivering Nasdaq OMX data to customers co-located at the exchange’s Carteret, NJ data centre, typically in 600…