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Cloud Platforms Gain Traction in Low-Latency Trading
Cloud platforms – once viewed as suitable only for middle- and back-office operations – are being increasingly adopted to support the front-office. While cloud remains a much overused buzzword, true cloud technologies are now delivering the kind of performance required for low-latency trading, and offer mechanisms to marry business return to technology investment. This topic…
Market Data Tools Pitches DeltaT Latency Measurement to App Developers
Startup Market Data Tools is rolling out DeltaT, a latency measurement tool with a focus on the needs of developers writing interfaces to market data feeds. Founded by former Thomson Reuters software development specialists, Market Data Tools is aiming DeltaT at a more focused marketplace than that being addressed by latency monitoring heavyweights Corvil and…
xCelor Taps Arista Application Switch for FPGA-based Ticker Plant, Pre-Trade Risk
Chicago-based market data feed specialist xCelor is getting set to release ticker plant and pre-trade risk functionality running on Arista Networks’ 7124FX Application Switch. The switch combines a Stratix V FPGA from Altera with a network switch for data processing as close to the network as one can get. The company is currently testing its…
Boston Ships ARM-Based Servers
Server vendor (OK, they sell workstations too) Boston has begun shipping its Viridis server, which leverages low power ARM chips – most popularly found in mobile devices – from Calxeda. The rack mountable 2U server comprises 192 processing cores and is being pitched at high throughput applications, such as big data processing. Each server draws…
Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication
By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK. As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…
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…