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The emphasis is generally on the software side of the business, but Victor argues that hardware is just as sexy.
Waters | Opinion | Hardware & Grid | 27 Jan 2012
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are being touted in certain circles as the next wave of technology in the financial services industry, gaining adherents for their ability to perform complex tasks at previously inconceivable speeds. However, with...
Waters | Feature | Hardware & Grid | 27 Jan 2012
The industry dodged a bullet by adopting cloud computing when it did. I realized this at the Waters USA conference in New York this week. Regulatory changes taking place in the global markets will definitely have an impact on firms’ infrastructure...
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Hardware & Grid | 09 Dec 2011
Datacenter host Interexion plans to open its second Cloud Testlab tomorrow, Nov. 17, within its City of London facility, according to vendor officials. The new offering is freely available for a limited time to service providers and system integrators...
Sell-Side Technology | News | Hardware & Grid | 15 Nov 2011
With the advent of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Rule 15c3-5 on pre-trade risk due to take effect in a matter of weeks, the industry seem to have settled on the use of low-latency field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to make the...
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Hardware & Grid | 11 Nov 2011
Financial technology consultancy Citihub last week announced a 34 percent improvement over previous benchmarks for transmitting data via inter-process communication (IPC), using Tibco’s FTL low-latency messaging layer and Hardcore Computer’s Detonator...
Inside Market Data | News | Latency | 05 Nov 2011
NYSE Technologies and data-storage vendor EMC have announced the availability of their Capital Markets Community Platform Advisory Service, three months after the Capital Markets Community Cloud (CMCC) went live. "We saw the benefit of assisting our...
Sell-Side Technology | News | Hardware & Grid | 19 Oct 2011
Trading firms are looking to managed services and cloud computing as a means to deliver more value and resources, while reducing the number of systems that they need to maintain internally. And while vendors are happy to step up to the plate, they warn...
Inside Market Data | Discussion | Events | 30 Sep 2011
SL Corporation, a Corte Madera, Calif.-based provider of application performance monitoring, and CloudTran, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based transaction management software provider for cloud computing, plan to jointly develop a platform that will optimize...
Sell-Side Technology | News | Data Governance | 30 Sep 2011
Panelists at the European Financial Information Summit this week discussed technological concerns facing the financial services industry. While one vendor cited speed-of-light barrier issues as an incoming obstacle for effective operation, one buy-side...
Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Hardware & Grid | 30 Sep 2011
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