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Exegy Delivers Data Tone in Mahwah and Aurora
Exegy has made its Data Tone service, providing low-latency market data, available at NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre, and at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s data centre in Aurora, Il. Data Tone provides low cost feeds as a service, leveraging Exegy’s ticker plant. At Mahwah, Exegy is offering access to NYSE data feeds, and in…
Telx Lowers Latency to NYSE Mahwah
Proximity data centre operator Telx is tapping into new fibre routes from Cross River Fiber to lower latency to NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre. Cross River’s new fibre runs directly through Clifton, NJ where Telx operates its existing NJR2 data centre, with NJR3 under construction. The fibre then runs on to Secaucus, NJ (where…
Redline and Intel Highlight Proposed STAC-T1 “Tick to Trade” Benchmark
Redline Trading Solutions and Intel are highlighting performance benchmarks for the latest versions of Redline’s ticker plant and execution gateway software, conducted using the proposed STAC-T1 test harness designed to measure “Tick to Trade” latency. STAC-T1 – as administered along with other benchmarks by the Securities Technology Analysis Center – measures the latency of a…
Q&A: October’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
More questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community e-mail bag, with some thoughts from me. Q: Profits are down at HFT firms, and regulation of them looks to be on the increase. What does than mean for low-latency technology spend? A: I am sure there will be an impact, but I also expect investment in low latency…
Exegy/StreamBase Partner For Big Data and Low Latency
Linking its hardware accelerated ticker plant to StreamBase System’s complex event processing (CEP) software, Exegy is addressing different trading strategies with one solution, says chief scientist Scott Parsons. “Is this a play about big data or low latency? The answer is yes.” The Exegy to StreamBase link was made possible by leveraging published APIs for…
Q&A: Interxion’s Patrick Lastennet on Demand For Co-Lo, Clouds and Big Data
We’ve been seeing a continued focus on companies that offer data centres for co-location and proximity, and how they are proving attractive offerings to trading firms needing to navigate an increasing regulatory landscape, and also to vendors looking to tap into liquidity hubs. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Interxion’s director of marketing and business development for financial…
Low Latency Machine Readable News Feeds Broaden Content, Geo Reach
Recent developments from providers of machine readable news and sentiment analysis, and their partners, point to increasing take up of this segment of market data, and how its applicability is expanding both in terms of content type and trading markets served. Deutsche Boerse – with its AlphaFlash product that’s largely the result of its acquisitions…
Calxeda Hires Niall Dalton and Geno Valente
Calxeda – developer of EnergyCore ‘system on a chip’ processors being pitched at big data applications – has hired Niall Dalton and Geno Valente, both of whom are well known in the financial markets space. Dalton has joined as chief software architect and will be based in the company’s soon-to-be-opened Sunnyvale, Ca. office. He was…
Tibco Taps Pluribus for FTL Message Switch; Adds Appliance for Enterprise Messaging
Tibco Software has added to its messaging arsenal with the introduction of the Tibco FTL Message Switch and the Tibco Enterprise Message Service Appliance. Both new products were announced at the company’s annual Tucon user conference, held this week in Las Vegas. For the FTL Message Switch, Tibco is partnering with Pluribus Networks, a startup…
Q&A: Dave Malik’s Cisco Nexus 3548 Deep Dive
Following up on the big Cisco news the other week of the launch of its Nexus 3548 switch, featuring latency of less than 190 nanoseconds, IntelligentTradingTechnology.com wanted to find out more about the new offering, its capabilities and the technology behind it. Dave Malik, senior director within its financial services group, provided some answers. Q:…