Hardware & Grid
Exegy, Solace Boost Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based Exegy is integrating its Total Connect ticker plant appliance with hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems' Message Router, to provide a hardware-accelerated, high-throughput and low-latency platform for enterprise-wide data…
RNA Networks Primes Memory Cloud
PORTLAND, ORE.-Memory virtualization platform provider RNA Networks expects to release version 2.5 of its RNA MVX memory cloud offering later this month, which will feature a "memory visor" that pools memory resources from many servers into a distributed…
Exegy Update Boosts Ticker Plant Performance
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy will this week release version 3.0 of its ticker plant, featuring lower latency, higher capacity and more interfaces for connection to other systems, to meet client demand, as well as new…
The Times They Are A-Changing
Now that we have reached mid-April, everyone should be inundated with commencement announcements from friends, family and those distant relations fishing for graduation gifts. Soon we will be in school auditoriums, gymnasiums or on the front lawn…
Thomson Reuters Accelerates Tick Engine
Thomson Reuters has optimized its Tick Capture Engine (RTCE) to process greater volumes of tick data at higher speed for clients to back-test trading strategies when running on the latest Intel Xeon 7500 chips.
GigaSpaces Brings Cloud to the Grid
NEW YORK-Grid-enabling platform provider GigaSpaces Technologies has released version 7.1 of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is designed to make data and application scaling simpler, according to vendor officials.
Nascent Cloud Security Drives Hybrid Strategies
NEW YORK-While compute clouds promise inexpensive and plentiful computing resources, the lack of standard security practices has led many users in the financial services industry to adopt a hybrid public-private cloud strategy, according to members of…
Liquidnet Takes Solace in Hardware for Messaging
OTTAWA-Block trading venue Liquidnet has begun implementing the Unified Messaging Platform from hardware-based middleware provider Solace Systems, replacing its previous software-based systems from Tibco and 29West, according to Liquidnet officials.
FSMLabs Updates TimeKeeper
AUSTIN, TEXAS-Time synchronization platform provider FSMLabs has released version 3.0 of the vendor's TimeKeeper server clock synchronicity platform, officials announced today, April 12.
A Little Spring Cleaning
Now that spring has finally arrived in the northern hemisphere, it is the perfect time to do a little spring cleaning-opening up the windows, airing out the house and hosing down the garden furniture. With dual announcements of new processors from Intel …
Quod Mulls Data Hardware Acceleration
Trading systems vendor Quod Financial plans to incorporate hardware-accelerated technologies from third-party providers into Version 5 of its Adaptive Execution Platform trading system, which is due for release in May of this year, to increase the…
AMD Partners Debut 'Magny-Cours' Servers
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the general availability of servers incorporating the vendor's new eight- and 12-core AMD Opteron 6000 Series processors, codenamed Magny-Cours, from its original equipment…
Peeking Over the Garden Wall
About 15 months ago, I started to wonder when the industry would begin seeing third-party compute clouds that would meet the rigorous demands of the financial services industry. I'm still waiting.
Savvis Strikes First Notes of Symphony
NEW YORK-Network and datacenter host Savvis is preparing to deliver the first portion of its Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Datacenter (VPDC) offering sometime before the end of the second quarter, according to vendor officials.
FlexiSphere Expands Senior Management
NEW YORK-Startup compute cloud provisioner FlexiSphere has expanded its management team with the hire of Bob DeSantis as the vendor's president and COO, officials tell DWT .
Paremus Adds Clients with Low-Latency Messaging
LONDON-Two unnamed global investment banks plan to have pilot implementations of the OSGi-based Paremus Service Fabric (PSF) from Paremus up and running this spring, vendor officials tell DWT .
Keeping an Eye on the Prize
I must apologize in advance to all theoretical physicists out there, but I recently heard a wonderful joke. A dairy owner is trying to figure out how to maximize his milk production so he writes to the smartest man he knows-his brother, the theoretical…
Cloud Computing Must Overcome Cost, Security Concerns
LONDON-The twin issues of cost and security have major global banks wary of adopting cloud computing on a massive scale, according to industry participants who spoke during a recent cloud computing conference held in London.