Exegy Conceives Appliance "Family"

Exegy chairman and chief executive Jim O'Donnell says he expects clients to ask the vendor to add firms' proprietary applications to the same hardware appliance that runs Exegy's ticker plant—such as a proprietary algorithm running on a separate server downstream—especially when dealing with co-location of applications for low-latency trading.

O'Donnell says that to gain advantage, "you have to be able to capture data into a persistent database very quickly."

As a result, he says the vendor has