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Informatica and MapR Working to Boost Hadoop Data Integration
Informatica and MapR Technologies are working together to boost the performance As part of the initiative, a community edition of Informatica’s HParser will be available as a component of the MapR distribution. HParser provides out-of-the-box Hadoop parsing capabilities for data sources, such as logs, call data records, industry standards, documents and binary or hierarchical data….
NovaSparks Adds Data Feeds; Outlines FPGA Matrix Architecture; Details Performance
NovaSparks has added support for an additional five data feeds to its Gen2 appliance, while at the same time outlining the FPGA matrix architecture that the appliance implements in order to handle multiple feeds and application functionality, and detailing its latency profile. The new data feed support comprises feeds from Bats (BYX and BZX), Direct…
Market Data Capacity: 2011 Review and 2012 Outlook
So, 2011 is now well behind us and we are already in the year of the Dragon. So it is high time to look back to assess the past and to look into the capacity planning crystal ball. It is impossible to know the future of course but we can learn from the careful examination…
Q&A: Intilop’s Kelly Masood on Doing IT in Silicon
Not too many traders have heard of Intilop, though its technology is probably widely deployed within the low-latency trading systems they rely on, especially in the areas of network processing. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s CEO/CTO Kelly Masood to find out the ‘inside’ story. Q: Can you begin by introducing Intilop and what the company…
NYSE and Fixnetix Combo Accelerates Global Rollout of “Frictionless” Market Access
So, in the wake of NYSE Euronext’s failed merger with Deutsche Borse, executives at the exchange group are clearly embarking on a Plan B. Part of that is the deal it announced on February 16, which will see it take a 25% stake in Fixnetix, a provider of co-located, managed services for low-latency market data,…
New Money for Correlix; But What Next?
While it didn’t make a splash about the event, latency monitoring specialist Correlix last week acknowledged that it has raised further capital from existing investors and hired former Island and Inet exec Richard Wilkins as vice president of sales, a position that has been vacant for a couple of years. Wilkins reports to founder and…
Q&A: Art Novikov on the Sweet Spot of High Performance Market Data Processing
Building systems for low-latency market data integration with trading systems requires a rare combination of technology skills and financial markets understanding. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Art Novikov, founder of Trading Physics, which leverages that combination for its customers – whether they be vendors or market participants. Q: First off, can you explain what Trading Physics does,…
Nanosecond Market Data Feeds – FPGA Centric vs. FPGA Accelerated Designs
The “Microburst” Problem Trading architects face the constant challenge of lowering latency. Today, this challenge is focused on achieving nanosecond speeds in a deterministic way, even during periods of high market activity, so called ‘microbursts’. In fast moving ‘bursty’ markets, commodity CPUs are no longer capable of offering the lowest latency or tolerating microbursts. Memory…
Datacom Taps Formby, Releases Matrix Switch for Co-Lo
Datacom Systems – a vendor of network taps and matrix switches – has appointed Kevin Formby as its new president and CEO. Formby joins from packet capture/latency monitoring specialist Endace, and as such brings with him much experience of the financial markets vertical in general, and low-latency infrastructure in particular. On the heels of Formby’s on-boarding,…
Direct Edge Taps Xignite for Historical Data Cloud
Stock exchange Direct Edge has launched EdgeBook Cloud, an on-demand service providing depth-of-book historical trade and quote data from its EDGA and EDGX markets. The data is delivered via Xignite’s cloud-based infrastructure, and is targeted at market analysis, back-testing, and compliance applications. There are three delivery options: “Our goal is to make EdgeBook Cloud the…