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Verdande and ITRS Link Provides Early Warning for System Outages
Continuing to work with application monitoring solutions, case-based reasoning specialist Verdande Technologies has forged a partnership with ITRS Group in order to create an “early warning system for potential trading outages, system failures or other latency-impacting events.” The deal involves Verdande linking its Edge platform with ITRS’s Geneos in order to leverage data points collected…
Q&A: Vibhoosh Gupta of GE Intelligent Platforms on Packet Processors for Low Latency HFT Applications
Hardware acceleration means more than FPGAs. Network packet processors are also being adopted in the financial markets to boost the performance of trading applications. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Vibhoosh Gupta, business leader at GE Intelligent Platforms, to find out more. Q: Let’s begin with the basics: What is a packet processor, and how does it compare functionally…
Zeptonics Hit By Legal Ruling; Cannot Sell Ultra-Low-Latency Products
Australian financial trading technology vendor Zeptonics has been directed by the Federal Court of Australia to assign the ownership of certain of its products – including its ZeptoLink fanout device and ZeptoMatch matching engine – to proprietary trading firm Zomojo, which claimed ownership of them. It is considering appealing the decision, but for now it…
Dell Processor Acceleration Technology Industry Briefing
In the world of the financial markets, securing an edge over the competition can mean life or death for a trading firm. Whether it is acting on news alerts or price movements, determining the best trading opportunity, or delivering an order to the marketplace, microseconds mean the difference between winning or just playing. Reducing those…
Recorded Webinar: Powering Winning Low-Latency Trading Strategies – Gaining an Edge Through Server Performance
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Trading firms continue to seek faster execution and lower latencies for their high frequency and algorithmic trading strategies. Beating the competition to trade in today’s fragmented marketplace is crucial to avoid price slippage and to maximise alpha. But the competition isn’t staying still, and…
Q&A: John Lockwood of Algo-Logic Systems on Reducing Time-to-Market for FPGA Apps
While the debate on whether to leverage FPGAs versus travel the Intel CPU roadmap for cutting-edge performance continues, there seems to be a common view that developing for FPGAs can be challenging. Looking to overcome that challenge is Algo-Logic Systems, with pre-built functionality for automated trading functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s founder and CEO…
Preview: A-Team’s 4th Annual London Low-Latency Summit Set for February 19
The headline states the basics that you need to know about – London on Tuesday, February 19. The Low-Latency Summit has been running in London (OK, under some aliases) since 2010, evolving along the way with a focus this spring on ‘convergence’ – which means how low-latency, cloud and big data technologies are combining to…
Q&A: January’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
It’s a new year, and it brings with it new questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … Q: What does the potential acquisition of NYSE Euronext by IntercontinentalExchange mean for the exchange group’s NYSE Technologies unit? A: Ah, an easy one to begin 🙂 Well, it’s going to take a few months for the transaction to close,…
IT Innovation Pays Dividends for Financial Leaders
By Thomas Kejser, Fusion-io www.fusion-io.com Time is money. In the finance industry, the truth of this adage has driven leaders to the forefront of the technology adoption curve. When microseconds and milliseconds mean the difference between profits and losses, financial organisations soon build up teams of phenomenal IT experts to ensure the infrastructure powering the…
Thomson Reuters’ Craig: The Future is Cloud
Thomson Reuters expects the financial markets to move to a cloud-based, managed services delivery model, and it is positioning its Elektron platform to meet that requirement, says David Craig, president of the company’s Financial & Risk unit. Craig was interviewed by A-Team’s Andrew Delaney, for sister community ReferenceDataReview.com. By leveraging the Elektron infrastructure, Thomson Reuters…