Hardware & Grid
Corvil Separates Software, Hardware Pricing for New Giga+ Latency Monitoring Platform
Officials say new commercial approach is first step towards cloud deployments of Corvil's software.
Xignite Debuts New Software Development Kits
Market data provider Xignite is rolling out new Software Development Kits (SDKs), which will debut at the FinDEVr conference in San Francisco over the next two days and be available for Java and .NET on GitHub.
Volta, Venus Offer Co-Lo with AWS
Datacenter provider Volta Data Centres and fiber network vendor Venus Business Communications have partnered to offer enhanced hybrid co-location solutions via Amazon Web Services at Volta's Great Sutton Street datacenter in London, in a move to provide…
Quartet FS Taps ‘Many-Core' Processors to Boost for ActivePivot V5
In-memory analytics technology provider Quartet FS is planning to roll out version 5 of its ActivePivot data aggregation and analytics platform in June, which features improved microprocessor technology that will make the platform 10 times faster,…
Excelian Introduces Grid-as-a-Service Offering
Consultancy Excelian has announced that it is now offering grid computing on an as-a-service basis (GaaS), operated through Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
Making a More Accurate Clock in the Cloud
Time synchronization attempts in the cloud have produced comical effects. FSMLabs thinks it has the answer.
Invea Bows FPGA Data, Trading Appliance
Invea-Tech, a provider of hardware acceleration technologies based in Brno in the Czech Republic, has released an FPGA (field-programmable gate array)-based trading system, TradeCope, which combines software management with hardware for handling market…
Solarflare Preps ‘Lockdown' Data Protection Tool for Trading Servers
Hardware-acceleration and data network technology provider Solarflare will later this year introduce a server security product designed to protect servers used to support trading platforms from malicious intrusions designed to access or steal data, to…
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
Exablaze Preps New NIC, 40GigE Support
Australian low-latency networking technology vendor Exablaze, a spin-off from highi-frequency trading firm Zomojo, is developing a stripped-down version of its ExaNIC network interface card, and is building support into its products for 40 Gigabit…
NanoSpeed Launches FPGA-Enabled Gateway
The customizable Nano-TG trading gateway will build off the London-based hardware provider's earlier field programmable gate array (FPGA) expertise.
Latency Hardware: Threading the Needle
From proprietary field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to flexible kill switches, North American Trading Architecture Summit panelists say good strategy always fits the right hardware to purpose.
FPGA Straight Talk: Benefits Tempered by Expense, Programmer Dearth
Mohammad Darwish's company, AdvancedIO Solutions, sells field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. But you wouldn't know it from hearing him talk—he does not sugarcoat the hardware's flaws.
Liability Protection, R&D Needed After Cybersecurity Executive Order
One of the Obama Administration's first actions in the new term is proving controversial. All parties agree on the perils of hacking, but financial firms are skeptical that regulating cybersecurity, alone, is the right approach.
Citi's Hill: Cloud Augurs 'Biggest Shift Since Desktop Browsers’
At this week's Waters USA conference in New York, executives from UBS, Lord Abbett, and Citi agreed that on matters of cloud, the questions will be “how” and “when,” rather than “if.”
CIBC's Maden: Vendors Must Find Holistic Approach
Vendors must come up with ways to ease the pressure on financial services firms, allowing them to focus on their core responsibilities, rather than worrying about their technology, according to Francis Maden, executive director at Toronto-based…
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
