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Data Management Summit – Emerging Technologies Deliver Business Benefits
Big data, cloud computing, the semantic web, big meta data, logical data models and in-memory analytics featured in a debate about emerging technologies for enterprise architecture at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. Colin Gibson, head of data architecture, markets and international banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland set the scene describing data…
Data Management Summit – Solving the Onshore or Offshore Conundrum
Christopher Bannocks, global head of reference data at Barclays Bank, detailed the pros and cons of offshoring and onshoring data management at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, concluding that value creation rather than cost arbitrage has become the decider on where work should be placed. He also fired a shot across the bows…
MapR Sets New MinuteSort Record; Grabs $30 Million
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies recently announced that it had set a new world MinuteSort record using Google’s cloud-based compute offering. Following up on that, the company just raised a further $30 million in investment. The MinuteSort record saw MapR’s Hadoop offering sorting 15 billion 100-byte records (or 1.5 TB) in 60 seconds, using the Google…
Data Management Summit – Paolo Mittiga Maps the Road Ahead
Paolo Mittiga, data management domain partner at Wipro Technologies, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit (DMS) outlining a future of data management that will focus on the legal entity and real-time access to all data and be underpinned by technologies including semantic logic and dynamic ontology. Mittiga was welcomed…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Morning After the Night Before
Even if I say so myself, our Data Management Summit in London on Tuesday was a knockout event. It felt just right: all the right people were there, meeting with the right contacts. It had an intimate feel, even though it was heaving. And everyone learned a lot from the compelling presentations and discussions. We’ll…
Latency – All About A, B and C (for Compute)
I often describe latency as the time it takes to move data from point A to point B, and/or the time taken to process that data at points A and B. I think it’s true to say that the majority of content on this site is about moving data from A to B. But processing…
LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee Details First Decisions on LEI Relationship Data and Interim LEI System
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative has endorsed the accounting consolidation approach as a first step for the development of much needed relationship data for the LEI. It has also provided more detail on the selection of board members for the LEI Foundation that will operate the Central…
Low-Latency Summits: Looking Back and Forward
We held the latest Low-Latency Summit in London a couple of weeks ago and already the memories are distant ones. But a lot was covered, from ROI on latency investment to trading in Russia. We recorded the entire proceedings to allow you to recap the experience, or to hear what you missed. We’re now looking…
StatPro Selects SIX Financial Information to Support Equity Pricing Snapshot Service
StatPro has selected SIX Financial Information’s intraday pricing service to automate delivery of its delayed equity pricing snapshot service and expand the universe of data coverage within the service. The portfolio analytics specialist considered a number of potential partners before selecting SIX Financial Information on the basis of its high-quality data, and has dropped previous…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Fever
It’s finally here…. Our Data Management Summit takes place in London next Tuesday, March 12. It’s taken a lot of begging, bribing and cajoling, but I think I can say that we’ve got the best possible line-up for the event. In short, for anyone in the reference / risk / enterprise and related technologies space,…