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TS-Associates Changes The Latency Management Game With Correlix Acquisition
TS-Associates has acquired the assets of competitor Correlix, a significant transaction that is likely to impact the dynamics of the latency management space. Most immediately, the acquisition brings it new customers and key functionality, including InfiniBand support, comprehensive trade flow analysis and a business-oriented user interface. Correlix’s RaceTeam service, which was adopted by a number…
Dell/RainStor Partner For Big Data Storage and Analysis
Dell has partnered with big database vendor RainStor for its Dell Big Data Retention solution, which acts as data repository for large datasets, either to support analytics, or as long-term archiving. For the financial markets, the solution is being pitched at firms needing to process large quantities of time series, transactional or unstructured data, or…
Amazon Taps SSDs For High Speed Storage and Analytics
Amazon Web Services has introduced High I/O instances for its EC2 compute cloud, leveraging solid-state disks (SSDs) to speed up storage I/O. The SSDs can deliver 120,000+ read and 80,000 write operations per second. Although pitched at companies providing consumer apps, such performance would help to make AWS more attractive to running financial analytics, perhaps…
Q&A: Corvil’s Donal Byrne Puts Latency Under The Lens
Latency management specialist Corvil has introduced its Trade Lens functionality, designed to map the technicalities of latency management onto trading business operations. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Corvil CEO Donal Byrne to get the details. Q: Can you describe what Trade Lens does, and why it’s of benefit to trading operations? A: The Trade Lens transforms the…
Exegy Intoduces Journal and Replay For Tick Data Analysis
Ticker plant vendor Exegy has released its Journal and Replay system, designed to allow regulators, compliance groups, quants, and technicians to have access to raw tick-by tick data, time stamped to the nanosecond. Journal and Replay allows customers to capture and recreate every trade, quote, order book price, update, halt, modify or cancel sent from…
Q&A: Perseus Telecom’s Jock Percy on Fast Fibre and Formula 1
Low-latency connectivity continues to be an area of spend for most trading firms, and tapping into far markets is one of the focuses. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Jock Percy, CEO of Perseus Telecom, to get some insight into the action. Q: Let’s start with an update on the transatlantic link – QuanTA. How’s it going?…
MapR Betas Hadoop on Google’s New IaaS Cloud
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has begun a private beta program for its offering running on the Google Compute Engine, that company’s recently announced (still in beta itself) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiative. At the announcement of GCE – which provides on-demand Linux-based compute nodes, with storage options – MapR demonstrated the integration, completing a one terabyte TeraSort…
Q&A: NovaSparks’ Yves Charles on Doing It All on FPGAs!
FPGAs are growing up and spreading their wings. Only a couple of years ago, their use for market data handling was considered cutting edge, whereas now it’s almost mainstream. But what about using them for more complex functionality? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to NovaSparks CEO Yves Charles on pushing the complexity, and the challenges involved. Q: You…
ScaleOut Addresses Big Data In-Memory Analytics; Adds Multi-Site, Cloud Support
ScaleOut Software has released version 5 of its ScaleOut StateServer in-memory data grid. For the first time, it supports linking grids across physical sites, including leveraging cloud services – providing an elastic architecture for big data analysis. Version 5 is currently available for public clouds Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. “By helping developers and…
Lowering the Latency at SIFMA
The annual SIFMA financial tech expo has just concluded in NYC, and here are a few of the low-latency highlights – from an event that sadly overall looks to be heading for the twilight zone. * Best in show in my book was Zeptonics, launching its ZeptoLink fan-out and electronic patch panel, with port to…