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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…
Data Integration Tools: Now, Where Did I leave it…?
By Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft Have you ever tried to do a simple job around the house and spent several times longer looking for the right tools and materials than it took to actually do the job? Have you ever wanted to make a change to a system and been frustrated by the time…
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,…
IBM Pitches EC12 Mainframe at Big Data, Cloud Apps
The result of more than $1 billion in R&D, IBM has introduced its latest System z mainframe, the EC12 – and it is pitching it at enterprise data and cloud applications. The mainframe is based on IBM’s proprietary chips, featuring 32 nanometre designs and running at 5.5GHz. Also included is transactional memory, a variant of…