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We’re Back … With Some Industry Views …
Welcome to 2012 from Low-Latency.com! We hope it will be a year of success and prosperity for all in our community. We ended last year with a few of our own predictions, to to get this one going, we asked some of our friends what they expected to see over the next 12 months. Here…
Signing Off for The Holidays … With Some Predictions ..
Low-Latency.com is taking a little break for the holidays, so now is the time to extend seasonal greetings to our community, and to wish everyone well for 2012. But we thought we’d leave you with some personal predictions for the next year … – Low latency covers a broad spectrum. Reducing milliseconds is for some…
Options IT Deploys Virtual Exchange from FIN
Managed services provider Options IT has gone live with an order matching service from Fundamental Interactions, with two initial customers – a broker/dealer and an Alternative Trading System – with early trade flow of around 60 million shares per day. Deployed on the Options PIPE managed infrastructure – which offers co-located infrastructure, access to market…
DataFlux Targets Firms’ Semantics with New Data Management Platform
DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to…
Latest Release of DataFlux Data Management Platform Expands Support for MDM and Data Governance
DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the general availability of the DataFlux Data Management Platform 2.2, a single platform for data management, data quality and data integration. The product also provides enhanced master data management (MDM) capabilities and adds features to allow business analysts and data stewards to initiate and manage…
Q&A: Chad Attlesey of Hardcore Computer on Overclocking … And How To Do It!
A recent performance benchmark conducted by Citihub resulted in a lot of talk about “overclocking” of CPUs, and what the driver for it is. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Chad Attlesey, CTO of overclocking leader Hardcore Computer, to explain what it’s all about, how to overclock reliably, and what performance gains might be seen. Q: Can you begin…
Summit Report – Latency Measurement Vendors – Nasdaq Wants You!
If you work for a vendor of latency measurement technology, then you should have attended the Low-Latency Summit in New York City the other week. During the pre-lunch keynote, Nasdaq OMX principal technologist Dominick Paniscotti outlined efforts at the exchange group to measure – and so reduce – latency, and also put out a call…
Guaranteed Messaging with Parallel Persistence from Informatica Ultra Messaging
To implement guaranteed messaging, some messaging vendors employ a messaging broker and a store-and-forward messaging model, to ensure that the message is persisted on a hard disk before sending along to consumers. While this model does simplify late join and loss recovery, since all messages flow through one central server, it carries a hefty price…
Azul Zings Java for Low Latency
Azul Systems has released version 5.0 of its Zing realtime Java Virtual Machine for Linux, eliminating the need for a hypervisor layer, and thus making it more attractive to developers of low-latency trading applications. In earlier versions, the required hypervisor virtualisation added unwelcome latency. Zing is 100% Java-standard JVM, which is based on Oracle’s HotSpot…
Occupy Latency?
Well it’s Friday, hence the wacky headline. The exact goals of the Occupy Movement might be hard for many to fathom, but their slogan “We are the 99%” has stuck in many people’s minds. That includes mine as I was completing a white paper for CFN Services on the benefits of leveraging managed infrastructure for…