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First Boston Exec: "Don't Assume Private Clouds Are Secure"
Private clouds are not free from security issues, because they are often "intertwined" with public clouds, a First Boston Global Capital Markets executive has told delegates at the European Trading Architecture Summit
UBS Exec: "Don't Centralize Processing Of Big Data"
It is easier to process big data where it resides than to centralize it first, a lead architect at UBS Investment Bank has told delegates at the European Trading Architecture Summit
Appliance Acceptance, Growth Drives Solace Sales Staffing Spree
Vendor boosts sales and engineering groups worldwide with new hires, reflecting takeup of its messaging appliance technologies
CounterpartyLink Brings On Two From Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters sales and account executives Helga Saraiva and Catherine Michel-Lefebvre have joined legal entity data vendor CounterpartyLink as business development managers
Advise Makes Reporting Tools Available On Abacus Cloud
Software vendor Advise Technologies has made its Consensus RMS suite of regulatory reporting tools available on the AbacusFLEX private cloud to satisfy the needs of the increasing number of hedge funds it says are choosing to migrate their applications…
Some Disaster Relief Data
Considering giving thanks for good fortune at a time when many are still trying to recover from Hurricane Sandy
IRD's Editor on Basel III Developments
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua comments on ongoing developments concerning Basel III capital adequacy rules
SumRidge Completes Municipal Securities Database
Working with Interactive Data, fixed-income firm SumRidge Partners has gained a more complete source of municipal securities reference data
Pneuron Names Fountain CTO
Thomas Fountain, a former CIO of agribusiness company Bunge, Honeywell and divisions of GE, has joined the data technology provider
Chester Joins Erudine Financial
Ian Chester, previously a business development executive at Calypso Technologies, has been named commercial director at Erudine, a data management provider now entering the financial services sector
Thomson Reuters Ships Commodities Interactive Map on Eikon
Interactive maps show commodities supply and shipping, as well as disruptive events that could impact prices.
Update: Bloomberg Launches App Store With 45 Third-Party Apps
Apps initially available include tools from Recognia and Lucena Research, and other content and analytics providers (see story for full list).