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xCelor Taps Arista Application Switch for FPGA-based Ticker Plant, Pre-Trade Risk
Chicago-based market data feed specialist xCelor is getting set to release ticker plant and pre-trade risk functionality running on Arista Networks’ 7124FX Application Switch. The switch combines a Stratix V FPGA from Altera with a network switch for data processing as close to the network as one can get. The company is currently testing its…
Boston Ships ARM-Based Servers
Server vendor (OK, they sell workstations too) Boston has begun shipping its Viridis server, which leverages low power ARM chips – most popularly found in mobile devices – from Calxeda. The rack mountable 2U server comprises 192 processing cores and is being pitched at high throughput applications, such as big data processing. Each server draws…
Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication
By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK. As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…
TS-Associates Changes The Latency Management Game With Correlix Acquisition
TS-Associates has acquired the assets of competitor Correlix, a significant transaction that is likely to impact the dynamics of the latency management space. Most immediately, the acquisition brings it new customers and key functionality, including InfiniBand support, comprehensive trade flow analysis and a business-oriented user interface. Correlix’s RaceTeam service, which was adopted by a number…
Thomson Reuters Continues Build Out of Elektron Data Delivery Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters has built out its Elektron data feed infrastructure with a third data centre in Chicago to support the Elektron Real Time low latency consolidated data feed – it has already deployed it in London and New York. The company has also added delivery of direct feeds from Canadian exchange venues to its Elektron…
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…