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GigaSpaces Points XAP9.0 at Big Data
GigaSpaces Technologies has released XAP9.0 – its application platform – focusing it on real-time big data applications. Says Adi Paz, GigaSpaces’ EVP of marketing and business development: “What is common to all real-time analytics systems is the need for streaming data processing, alongside batch processing, such as Hadoop provides. However, building a system for big…
S&P Capital IQ Offers Data Solution for Customer Relationship Management
S&P Capital IQ has pulled together vast amounts of its in-house data to create a data solution for customer relationship management (CRM) systems. The aim of the company’s CRM Data Suite is to help users seed and power proprietary CRM systems that avoid duplication of records and are instead based on master records updated by…
Interactive Data Adds CDS to Valuation Service and Promises Speedy Delivery
Interactive Data has added credit default swaps (CDS) and two CDS indices to its independent OTC derivatives valuation service, increasing transparency around the evaluation of these asset classes and helping users to improve risk management and regulatory compliance through a better understanding of CDS valuations. The company is also working towards intra-day and ultimately near…
Interactive Data Readies for Fallout from European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Interactive Data is seeking to reassure users of its evaluated pricing and reference data services that they will not be affected by any fallout from the European sovereign debt crisis. The big data provider has outlined its plans for responding to a Greek exit from the euro and other scenarios in a letter to customers….
EMS Functionality, Increased Footprint are Key Drivers in Mantara’s Acquisition of UNX
Customer requests for increased desktop functionality, as well as the opportunity to increase the footprint for its pre-trade risk and connectivity services, were key drivers for Mantara’s acquisition of UNX, says president and CEO Michael Chin. UNX’s installed base for its Catalyst EMS offers Mantara a “valuable desktop presence” says Chin, providing a ready platform…
Q&A: Ron Huizen of BittWare on Accelerating FPGA Development
BittWare was in the news recently with its FPGA network boards being adopted by Fixnetix for its trading and pre-trade risk offering. As well as providing hardware, BittWare’s also has tools to speed up FPGA development, helping to overcome a much-cited drawback of adopting them. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s vice president of technology Ron…
euNetworks Latest To Tap Ciena 6500
Ciena has been in the news a bit of late, with its 6500 packet optical platform being adopted by several network providers, most recently euNetworks for its 100 gigabit upgrade. euNetworks his upgraded a portion of its entire European network to the higher bandwidth, with roll out in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris, and also…
Mellanox, AMAX, STEC Join for Hadoop Appliance
Networking specialist Mellanox Technologies has joined forces with server/storage company Amax and solid state storage vendor Stec in the introduction of the PHAT-DATA40G, an appliance geared to running Hadoop. The appliance includes an Amax server, hosting Intel E5-2600 chips (often know as Sandy Bridge), Mellanox’s 40gE networking and 960 GB SSDs from Stec. Installation and…
Stop Press: Thomson Reuters Drops Enterprise Data Management Platform
In the same week that Markit announced plans to acquire Cadis, rival data vendor Thomson Reuters has confirmed plans to exit the enterprise data management platform business. The company has decided to withdraw its Enterprise Platform for Data Management product, and will focus instead on enterprise content in the form of pricing, valuations, corporate actions…
S&P Capital IQ and EDI Join Forces for Global Corporate Actions Service
S&P Capital IQ and Exchange Data International (EDI) have combined their respective North American and global data to deliver a consolidated global dividends and corporate actions service that will support risk management with timely and accurate corporate actions information. The move catapults the companies into competition with Interactive Data, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. The global…