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Content tagged with Infrastructure posted in April 2009
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Vertica Adds Speed, Views to Analytic Database
News  |  4/30/2009  | 
The 3.0 version of Vertica's analytic database can load five terabytes of data per hour and offers different views of data to disparate user groups.
Finnish Online Brokerage Invests in Application Monitoring
News  |  4/30/2009  | 
A complex environment and rapid growth necessitated the replacement of a homegrown application monitoring tool.
Fidelity International Joins EMX Message System
News  |  4/30/2009  | 
Fidelity International’s defined contributions pensions business is the lastest platform to join the EMX Message System.
Goldman Sachs clients to Use Orc’s Solutions
News  |  4/30/2009  | 
Orc Software has joined the Goldman Sachs Signature Program as a Signature Partner to provide high performance trading solutions to Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading clients.
Burgundy Picks TNS for Connectivity
News  |  4/30/2009  | 
Nordic MTF will rely on TNS's extranet to support the flow of orders and market data between the MTF and its trading participants.
Hedge Funds Expect Regulatory Hammer to Fall Within Six Months
News  |  4/29/2009  | 
The hedge fund community are scrambling to update technology to meet new regulations, which are expected within the next six months.
Coda Launches First Accounting Program to Run on Salesforce.com
News  |  4/29/2009  | 
Enterprise accounting software rewritten for the Force.com platform and available for $125 a month per user.
Euroclear Completes Acquisition of Xtrakter
News  |  4/29/2009  | 
SunGard Launches Commodity Suite
News  |  4/29/2009  | 
Energy traders can use Aligne to process energy financial and physical transactions across front-, middle- and back-office operations.
Neuberger Berman Signs Up for Digital Realty Turn-Key Data Center
News  |  4/28/2009  | 
Asset management firm to move into one of Digital Realty's northeastern facilities.
Orc Delivers Trading Solutions to Russian Firm
News  |  4/27/2009  | 
Maxwell Capital will deploy Orc Trader to provide links to the leading domestic markets: the Russian Trading System (RTS) / FORTS and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), as well as to international markets.
BT Signs OEM Agreement with Hitachi Com in Japan
News  |  4/27/2009  | 
BT Japan taps Hitachi to sell its trading systems and turrets in world's four largest market.
HSBC Selects TradingScreen for SWX connectivity
News  |  4/24/2009  | 
HSBC Selects TradingScreen for SWX connectivity
Financial Firms Face Massive Market Data Infrastructure Challenges
News  |  4/23/2009  | 
If U.S. equities message volumes continue to grow at their current pace, they should average 1.2 billion messages per day by 2011, according to new Aite Group report.
BNY Mellon Adopts Solar Power
News  |  4/23/2009  | 
New 76-kilowatt solar panel array deployed at the BNY Mellon complex in Everett, Mass., to save $15,000 a year.
ITG Adds Dynamic IS to Algo Suite in Europe
News  |  4/22/2009  | 
The algo is designed for portfolio and quantitative traders who want to manage risk.
Capital Fund Management Chooses NYSE Tech for Market Data
News  |  4/22/2009  | 
CFM has replaced its legacy market data distribution system with NYSE Technologies’ Market Data Platform at its New York and Paris operations.
BATS Europe Gets Low Latency Connectivity
News  |  4/22/2009  | 
This connection will enable Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions’ network customers, including investment banks and brokers, to connect easily to BATS Europe’s growing pool of liquidity, ensuring they meet their best execution obligations.
Chi-X Europe To Launch Dark Pool
News  |  4/22/2009  | 
AMD Rolls Out Server Chip for Energy-Constrained Data Centers
News  |  4/21/2009  | 
Servers loaded with Opteron EE chip said to run 13% more efficiently than those containing Intel Xeon processors.
Buy Side to Exit Businesses, Improve Integration
News  |  4/21/2009  | 
“Emerging from Crisis, a Sybase Study on Capital Markets,” a report conducted by Sybase and IDC Financial Insights looks at how buy and sell side firms may transform as a result of the credit crisis.
Progress Software Launches Multicore-Ready CEP
News  |  4/21/2009  | 
Apama's Parallel Correlator automatically distributes complex event processing among eight cores, providing a seven-fold performance improvement.
Turquoise and Three Investment Banks Share Latency Data
News  |  4/21/2009  | 
MTF and trading participants use CorvilClear to measure inter-party latency throughout infrastructure.
Kx Doubles Database Speed Using Intel’s Nehalem Server
News  |  4/21/2009  | 
Benchmark tests show 2X speed improvement for tick database running on Xeon 5500.
Baikal Picks Fidessa to Develop Smart Order Router
News  |  4/21/2009  | 
Baikal Picks Fidessa to Develop Smart Order Router
Oracle-Sun Merger Good and Bad News for Wall Street
News  |  4/20/2009  | 
The two company's software products should complement each other, but Sun's hardware is not a good fit for Oracle, analyst says.
Thomson Reuters Enhances Product to Support Commodity Trading
News  |  4/20/2009  | 
Reuters enhances trading product by providing commodities order routing and seamless click to trade functionality for its exchange traded instrument customers.
Axios Systems and DataCenter Sign Strategic Agreement to Penetrate Growing Nordic Market
News  |  4/17/2009  | 
Partnership expects to benefit from market growth, as IDC forecasts Finland's IT market will grow by up to 3.4% during 2009.
Citi Taps CEP for Analyzing Equity Data
News  |  4/16/2009  | 
Global financial giant uses Coral8 software to perform complex pattern matching on equity data in real time.
The Undesireable Effects of Banning Short Sales
News  |  4/16/2009  | 
EDHEC position paper lists the negative consequences of the short selling ban
Credit Suisse Hires Head of Equity in Japan
News  |  4/16/2009  | 
Takeshi Hasebe Joins Credit Suisse as Head of Equity Capital markets in Japan.
Deutsche Bank to Offer Co-location at Australian Stock Exchange
News  |  4/16/2009  | 
The bank will place electronic trading equipment at ASX data center to enable high-speed data delivery back to clients.
Tora Expands into Liquidity Services
News  |  4/16/2009  | 
Wolverine Trading Licenses OneTick Database
News  |  4/14/2009  | 
Global Forex Exchange Trading Volumes Increased Last Year Despite Credit Crisis
News  |  4/13/2009  | 
Activity from corporations and financial institutions more than offset the contraction among hedge funds.
Agency Broker Chooses Chi-Tech for Trading Infrastructure
News  |  4/8/2009  | 
Chi-X Global Technology, Chi-Tech, the technology services unit of Chi-X Global, has deployed its MarketPrizm trading infrastructure platform for independent agency brokerage, Oddo & Cie.
List Group's Multi-Asset Platform Provides Access to LSE
News  |  4/8/2009  | 
List Group’s flagship trading platform, FastTrade, has developed connectivity to the LSE for trading in a wide range of securities including international equities, AIM securities and depositary receipts. It also offers connectivity to the LSE’s information, settlement and reporting services.
SR Labs Introduces Shared Memory Product for Low Latency Trading
News  |  4/7/2009  | 
Uses multi-core machine to process market data on same box as high speed trading applications.
Chi-X Canada Enhances SmartRouter
News  |  4/7/2009  | 
Merrill Lynch Developing Private, Public Cloud Initiatives in Parallel
News  |  4/6/2009  | 
The firm's chief technology architect, Jeff Birnbaum, explains its cloud strategy.
Morgan Stanley Growing Its Use of Linux
News  |  4/6/2009  | 
The firm uses tools developed by CERN to configure and monitor a diverse array of servers.
StreamBase Delivers CEP FX Framework
News  |  4/6/2009  | 
StreamBase 6.3 includes updates to the core CEP platform, and marks the launch of StreamBase’s Foreign Exchange Aggregation Framework.
SunGard Unveils GL Net Hub in Sao Paulo
News  |  4/6/2009  | 
New GL Net hub expands access to BM&F Bovespa for international investors.
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