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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…
Performance by Numbers: Lessons on Latency
When sizing up a data sheet, what numbers pop out at you? IOPS? GB/s? Latency? If you’re like most IT professionals, you might be starting to pay more attention to latency. In case you’re still wondering what all the fuss is about, let’s look at why low latency is so important, why it’s a challenge…
A Recruiter’s View: Much Demand For FPGA Skills in 2013
2013 looks set to prove a dynamic year for hiring in the low-latency technology sector. With a growing diversity in the “end user” space, we here at Harrington Starr – a specialist financial IT recruiter – are predicting significantly increased demand for talent with the best candidates in high demand. 2012 has proved a very…
Emulex Expands Low-Latency Offerings
Emulex isn’t the first company that comes to mind when thinking of low-latency network vendors, but through a series of actions it’s making an increasing contribution to the technology underpinning automated trading. The latest development was last week’s announcement that it is to acquire latency monitoring specialist Endace. Founded in 1979 and with current revenue…
Messaging Challenges Over The WAN
Many global companies, especially in the front office of capital markets, have a strategic need to send real-time data from one location to another, often thousands of miles away, over a Wide Area Network (or WAN) connection. With foreign exchange, for example, global investment banks send dealable streaming prices, orders, trades, and reference data across…
NLX Leverages Genium Inet, Equinix For Low Latency
Nasdaq OMX’s planned London-based NLX derivatives exchange will leverage the exchange group’s own Genium Inet technology to ensure low-latency matching. The exchange will base its primary matching engine at Equinix’s popular LD4 facility in Slough, west of London, where co-lo facilities will be available. When it begins operating in Q1 of 2013 (if the regulators…
Q&A: November’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
The Low-Latency Summit in New York City the other week created a lot of discussion and lots of questions to me. So here is a sampling from that busy day, along with my thoughts. Q: One of the conference sessions was focused on latency reduction and ROI. What was your take away from that? A:…
Can Both Microwave and Fibre Turn Up The Heat on HFT?
With trading speeds of up to 40% faster, microwave transmission looks set to be an important technology tool for high frequency traders in search of a competitive advantage, but it won’t lead to a wholesale technology change across the industry. There are limitations to microwave and this is why a combination of low latency fibre…
Datacom Panel: Life After HFT For FPGAs
High Frequency Trading, evolving applications and programming advances were key topics at “FPGA Advances in Market Trading” – a panel discussion held in New York City this week, hosted by Datacom Systems. The panel also included representation from Altera, ITRS, NovaSparks and Strike Technologies, and was moderated by Low-Latency.com. Among the issues debated was one…