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Q&A: Fiberblaze’s Troels Gert Nielsen on TCP Offload Approaches, Altera FPGAs and Opening Up in The Big Apple
Trading firms – especially those into HFT – are always looking for a technology edge, and customised solutions can provide it. The custom approach is what Fiberblaze specialises in, though that’s not stopping it releasing a more generalised product this month. Embracing Altera FPGAs, and opening an office in New York City is also in…
Nasdaq Releases FPGA-Accelerated Data Feed
Nasdaq has gone live with a version of its TotalView Itch full depth equities feed driven by FPGA technology. The feed is being directed at trading firms that are particularly latency sensitive, with no queuing during data bursts that occur at peak trading periods. The TotalView Itch 4.1 FPGA feed is identical in format to…
Tervela, Teradata Partner To Move and Distribute Big Data
Messaging specialist Tervela is partnering with analytics database vendor Teradata, to deliver solutions for moving and distributing big data. The alliance will help customers upload their data into Teradata’s data warehouse for analysis, and will also allow rapid distribution of data across multiple warehouses. “We are seeing demand for high performance data movement in capital…
SIX Financial Information Adds Data to Meet Final Withholding Tax Requirements
SIX Financial Information is meeting the data demands of withholding tax treaties between Switzerland and the UK, Germany and Austria with the integration of tax qualifications for securities and corporate actions in its Valordata data feed and Telekurs iD data look-up terminal. The company has been working with paying agents, essentially banks, in Switzerland over…
GoldenSource Develops Packaged Solutions for Data Management Tasks
GoldenSource is responding to market demand for quick and easy to use data management solutions with out-of-the-box products. The company’s first packaged product is GoldenSource Insight, a real-time graphical dashboard and data visualisation solution powered by Information Builders’ WebFocus platform and pre-configured with chart and report templates that integrate with the company’s enterprise data management…
Terracotta Taps Gilthorpe as CEO
Software AG’s Terracotta unit has appointed former Tibco Software veteran Robin Gilthorpe as its CEO. “This is a pivotal time to be joining Terracotta, as the company becomes a major growth driver for the Software AG Group. In-memory and related technologies will be fundamental to deriving real value from big data,” comments Gilthorpe, who is…
Ullink Continues Focus on Ultra Low Latency With Azul Zing Partnership
Ullink is continuing its focus on squeezing microseconds of latency from its trade execution and pre-trade risk systems, by partnering with Azul Systems, which offers a low and predictable latency Java virtual machine (JVM). Laurent Useldinger, CEO of Ullink, comments: “We have been testing the capabilities of the Azul solution for sometime; during that period…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Back to Work
We’re back from Labor Day, August Bank Holiday and the Olympics (although the Paralympics continues here in sunny East London). It’s surely time to roll up the sleeves and get back to work. The forthcoming ‘Fall Season’, as I like to call it, looks like it will be a busy one. Everyone is in budget…
Low Latency EMS, Connectivity Push Into New Asset Classes, Geographies
Accelerating a trend that began perhaps a couple of years ago, vendors of execution management systems, and of connectivity and co-lo services, are continuing to push into new trading opportunities, beyond the core equities markets of major financial centres. Indeed, a raft of news in recent days – as the business world gets going after…
Q&A: ParStream’s Mike Hummel on Bringing Low Latency to Big Data
Bringing low latency to the world of big data is what ParStream – which recently raised $5.6 million in series A funding – has been working on now for several, years, with some impressive results. We talked to the company’s CEO Mike Hummel to find out more about the company and its technology. Q: First,…