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Q&A: Sumerian’s Bryan Clark on Big Data Analytics and Operational IT
For Sumerian, the focus is not so much on capturing and storing big data, but much more on analysing it to provide insight into how IT systems – especially for electronic trading – are working, how they might perform under load and how to tune them to make them both high performance and efficient. We…
Increasing Trade Performance: A Quest for Lower Latency, or Simply Improved Monitoring?
Performance. We all grow up assessed for it. But in today’s trading environment, how can organisations balance increased regulatory requirements and maximise the efficiency of their core trading functions? Less operational resources means firms are challenged with creating more sophisticated business logic that differentiates them from the competition in the never ending quest for lower…
Q&A: Interactive Data’s Scott Caudell on Co-Lo and Managed Services
Managed service delivery in the low-latency world is an increasing focus as trading firms begin to measure ROI for their IT investments. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Scott Caudell, vice president, IT Infrastructure, at Interactive Data, about its 7ticks business, and where it fits in. Q: To begin with, can you outline what the Interactive Data 7ticks…
Latency in Electronic Trading
With the majority of financial products trading electronically, latency tops the agenda for proprietary traders and market-makers, regardless of asset class. Latency has also become a major preoccupation for trading desks concerned with best execution compliance. 94% of sell-side firms and 80% of hedge funds currently single out “speed of execution” as the most important…
Intel’s Sandy Bridge Set For Low-Latency Applications
Intel has released its Xeon E5-2600 processor family for servers, bringing its ‘Sandy Bridge’ architecture and Advanced Vector Extension instruction set to enterprise applications, including for low-latency trading. Intel claims that the 2600 can double the performance of computational applications, such as financial number crunching – analytics, complex algorithms, risk management. Implemented on 32-nanometre silicon,…
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,…