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Lime Brokerage Adds to Low-Latency Arsenal
With its move to offer low-latency market data to its buy side customers, Lime Brokerage is further adding to its arsenal of data, trading and risk services, perhaps making it look more like a technology vendor than market participant. Lime’s new data service is based on technology from NovaSparks, which leverages FPGA technology to process…
Savvis, Hortonworks Partner For Hadoop in the Cloud
Savvis – which offers IaaS, managed hosting and proximity services, with a strong focus on financial markets, has announced a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, a distributor of Hadoop, to offer cloud-based big data solutions to enterprises. The Hortonworks Data Platform will be integrated with the Savvis Symphony suite of cloud services, simplifying the movement of…
Recorded Webinar: Synchronizing Precise Time For Trading, Around The Planet
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. This webinar focuses on synchronizing ultra precise time (i.e. sub microsecond) across distributed (Linux) applications deployed in high frequency and algorithmic trading. The challenges are twofold: First, how to very precisely synchronize the time between computers in a trading system. The second, is how…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Lovas on the Low Latency Arms Race, TCA and Big Data
From time to time, it’s good to take the pulse of the low-latency world to get updated on the status quo, and find out what’s coming next. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got such insight from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: Compared to a year ago, where are trading firms focusing in their efforts to align…
Measuring Latency in Equity Transactions
This white paper was written by Ixia. Ixia is the Leader in Converged IP Testing and offers solutions for higher speed gigabit Ethernet as well as testing network performance The importance of minimizing latency in data center networks has been discussed intensely in the last year, mostly with respect to trading in financial markets – where…
Viewpoints on Latency – Thought Leadership at The Cutting Edge of Electronic Trading – June 2012
Viewpoints on Latency is a regular collection of news, thought leadership and opinion from the Low-Latency.com community. Low latency is not an island. Other technologies and approaches, such as cloud and big data, all have connections into the latency world, and all will play a part in making tomorrow’s electronic trading markets profitable for players of all types….
Brazilian Markets Still Driving Low-Latency Connectivity
The Brazilian financial markets – with the Sao Paulo-based BM&F BOVESPA securities market in particular – continue to drive activity among connectivity and infrastructure providers looking to support trading firms looking to take advantage of trading opportunities in a hot market. Most recently, GlobeNet – which operates a submarine cable from Nasdaq’s Carteret, NJ data…
Actian’s Vectorwise 2.5 Now GA
Actian has announced general availability of its Vectorwise 2.5 release, with a continued focus on improved performance for big data applications. New features include a predictive buffer manager to further enhance performance on concurrent queries. In-memory updates are now performed at a more granular level for faster and more efficient inserts and updates. Also, improved…
Q&A: Cross River Fiber’s Michael Sevret on Connectivity and the Mahwah Opportunity
With NYSE Euronext’s announcement that it is to open up remote access into its Mahwah, NJ data centre, one can expect the network provider community to respond to the opportunity to provide new low-latency routes. First to announce its plans is Cross River Fiber. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Michael Sevret, the company’s executive vice president and…
Fixed Income with Electronic Trading
In the world of electronic trading, fixed income has seen slow uptake compared to equities and foreign exchange, mainly due to the much more complicated types of underlying financial calculations – which can require many minutes, sometimes even hours of processor time. This stands in marked contrast to electronic trading of equities or foreign exchange…