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Infrastructure Technologies

Infrastructure Technologies

Waters Technology’s extensive coverage of Infrastructure Technologies features expert analysis, news, opinion, interviews & special reports on the business issues facing Hardware & Grid and Complex Events Processing professionals across the financial market IT, trading technology and data landscape.


Infrastructure Technologies News, Commentary & Analysis from Waters Technology

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Will Regulators Kill the Cloud?

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

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Waters USA Keynote: State Street CIO Perretta Says Major Cloud Benefit Is in Search

Starting last year, State Street embarked on a project to revolutionize its operating model through the use of the cloud. The firm is now live with its own private cloud, and since August, it has developed about 10 applications that are fully up and running...

Waters | Analysis | Infrastructure Technologies | 05 Dec 2011

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CIOs Outline Expectations of—and Frustrations with—Vendors

At the inaugural European Trading Architecture Summit in Canary Wharf last week, CIOs from major financial services firms outlined what they expect from vendors, and debated what vendors actually deliver. By Sitanta Ni Mathghamhna Tom Daglish, chief...

Waters | Analysis | Infrastructure Technologies | 29 Nov 2011

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Harnessing the Cloud

As cloud becomes more prevalent, the technology is beginning to offer more pronounced, user-focused benefits for investment firms, institutions and everyone in between. But what are the new frontiers, how can they be achieved effectively, and are these...

Waters | Feature | Infrastructure Technologies | 29 Nov 2011

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Interxion Opens London Cloud Testlab

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

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StreamBase Seeks 'Radical Transparency' in Business Intelligence

Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider StreamBase Systems has announced the first-quarter availability of its LiveView streaming business intelligence platform that will reduce the “human” latency associated with current business intelligence...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Complex Events Processing | 14 Nov 2011

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Are FPGAs the Miracle Cure?

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

Citihub, Tibco, Hardcore Slash IPC Latency

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

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Open Platform: Securing the Cloud

Today, many hedge funds are considering a move to a shared or cloud-based infrastructure to achieve new efficiencies, scalability and cost advantages. While cloud computing has a number of real advantages and is gaining momentum on the buy side, one consideration...

Waters | Opinion | Infrastructure Technologies | 20 Oct 2011

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Future is in the Cloud, Says WFIC Panel

The use of cloud computing to support the acquisition and delivery of financial market data is set to accelerate in coming years, once the financial industry becomes more comfortable with the concept and security concerns are overcome, said speakers at...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Market Data Management | 19 Oct 2011

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