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Q&A: John Lockwood of Algo-Logic Systems on Reducing Time-to-Market for FPGA Apps
While the debate on whether to leverage FPGAs versus travel the Intel CPU roadmap for cutting-edge performance continues, there seems to be a common view that developing for FPGAs can be challenging. Looking to overcome that challenge is Algo-Logic Systems, with pre-built functionality for automated trading functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s founder and CEO…
Q&A: HPCC Systems’ Flavio Villanustre on Not Map Reduce and Open Source
HPCC Systems – a unit of LexisNexis – has been quietly building out a big data processing platform for several years, using it internally to power several of its parent’s services and applications. Now, it’s open sourcing the not-map reduce platform, and selling a commercial version to third parties. We got the detail from Dr….
Q&A: Dell’s Bob Barris on the ABCD of Big Data Analytics
Combining its server, storage and networking hardware with open source and partner software, and professional services, Dell is shaping up to be an IT heavyweight in the big data space. We tapped Dell VP of sales for financial services Bob Barris to explain the company’s offering, and he responded that it’s as easy as ABC…
Q&A: January’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
It’s a new year, and it brings with it new questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … Q: What does the potential acquisition of NYSE Euronext by IntercontinentalExchange mean for the exchange group’s NYSE Technologies unit? A: Ah, an easy one to begin 🙂 Well, it’s going to take a few months for the transaction to close,…
Q&A: Chris Lees of FixSpec on the “Myth” of Standard FIX
The FIX protocol has been around for years – since 1992 in fact – and is pretty much ubiquitous in the world of electronic trading. But it is still difficult to implement for many. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Chris Lees, founder of London-based startup FixSpec, to find out what the issues are, and what his company is…
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…
Analysis: Lightower/Sidera Merger
Over the holidays, it was announced that Lightower Fiber Networks and Sidera Networks are to merge. Here’s some more on the deal based (in large part) on a briefing from Sidera CEO Mike Sicoli … * The new company – name TBD and valued at $2 billion – is being created by Berkshire Partners acquiring Lightower…
The Conservative and Liberal Message: Taxes and Data Rates to Rise in 2013
There are some great certainties in life, such as taxes, death and so on. But death rates and taxes can go up and down. Not so with market data. There is no argument. Data rates always go up. Although 2012 was a notoriously poor year in terms of US trading volumes, aggregate market data traffic…
Australia’s ASIC Taps First Derivatives Big Data Solution for Market Surveillance
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)’s selection of First Derivatives’ Delta Stream+ Market Surveillance solution is aimed at giving the regulator the same kinds of tools available to high frequency traders for monitoring market activity and identifying possible fraudulent behaviour. The deployment of Delta Stream+ is seen as an early application of big data…
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…