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Q&A: CFN’s Mark Casey on Latency Futures, Proximity and Cloud
Time to take the pulse again, here at SIFMA, to get updated on the status quo, and find out what’s coming next. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got such insight from Mark Casey, President & CEO at CFN Services. Q: Compared to a year ago, where are trading firms focusing in their efforts to align latency reduction with their…
Lime Brokerage Adds to Low-Latency Arsenal
With its move to offer low-latency market data to its buy side customers, Lime Brokerage is further adding to its arsenal of data, trading and risk services, perhaps making it look more like a technology vendor than market participant. Lime’s new data service is based on technology from NovaSparks, which leverages FPGA technology to process…
Savvis, Hortonworks Partner For Hadoop in the Cloud
Savvis – which offers IaaS, managed hosting and proximity services, with a strong focus on financial markets, has announced a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, a distributor of Hadoop, to offer cloud-based big data solutions to enterprises. The Hortonworks Data Platform will be integrated with the Savvis Symphony suite of cloud services, simplifying the movement of…
AMD, Colfax Gain Cloudera Certification
Colfax’s AMD-based server cluster is now Cloudera certified. The cluster consists of six Colfax 2U CX2270-N4 servers – each with two AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors – running Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The cluster contains 192 cores. The Colfax cluster and its high core density is designed for customers who are using Hadoop for fast,…
S&P Capital IQ Adds Credit Ratings and Frequent Delivery to Xpressfeed
S&P Capital IQ has added Standard & Poor’s credit ratings to its Xpressfeed enterprise data feed, and upgraded the feed delivery from daily and monthly to near real-time, bringing static data into the near real-time world. Xpressfeed including the credit ratings has been on beta test for a couple of months and went live this…
The Benefits of Going Big for Eikon Users
By Philip Brittan, Thomson Reuterswww.thomsonreuters.com The scale of data in financial services is, although significant, dramatically smaller than it is for online consumer companies like Google or Amazon. For financial services, petabytes are huge, but for those firms they are a rounding error. Nevertheless the need for real-time throughput makes financial services data a unique…
Q&A: Thomson Reuters’ Peter Moss on Elektron at Age Two
Launched a little over two years ago, Elektron is Thomson Reuters’ strategic offering for delivery of data services and applications. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Peter Moss, managing director for Trading in Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk group, to get some background on its roll out to date. Q: To begin with, what are the main…
Q&A: SunGard’s Neil Palmer on the Top Ten Trends
Sungard likes to publish top ten trends lists, and the latest focuses on big data in financial services. We chatted to Neil Palmer, partner at SunGard’s consulting services’ advanced technology business, to find out some more behind the predictions. Q: You just published SunGard’s view of theten big data trends for financial services in 2012. …
IBM to Review Nasdaq OMX Technology in Wake of Facebook IPO Problems
Following the debacle that was the Facebook IPO on May 18, and Nasdaq OMX’s announcement that it plans to compensate member firms for who were “disadvantaged by technical problems” during the IPO process, the exchange has also revealed that it “has selected IBM to conduct a thorough review of the current state of processes for…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Lovas on the Low Latency Arms Race, TCA and Big Data
From time to time, it’s good to take the pulse of the low-latency world to get updated on the status quo, and find out what’s coming next. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got such insight from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: Compared to a year ago, where are trading firms focusing in their efforts to align…