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Billing Your Way To Success
Back at the turn of the 20th century, Serbian technology wizard Nikola Tesla was experimenting with ways to transmit alternating electrical current over vast distances without using cabling.
Merrill Lynch's Three Steps to a Global Grid
Creating a global compute grid is not an easy task, but traders at Merrill Lynch have been benefiting from the firm's global grid for the past year as they send analytics calculations across the wide area network (WAN) on a daily basis.
One Grid to Rule Them All?
If you do a quick term search on Google for "grid to rule them all," it returns 205 pages. If you search just on the term "grid computing," it returns another 4.88 million-in English alone.
Vendors Respond to New Demands
Data providers are feeling the heat from rising data volumes, demand for lower latency and value-added services, as well as increased competition from new, niche providers and market venues, according to a panel of vendor executives.
Challenges, Opportunities in Volume Rises
The impact of algorithmic trading and new venues created in response to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is expected to generate a flood of new market data across Europe, but may result in more competitive markets and adoption of newer,…
Users: Budget Squeeze Hits Data
Data managers are being forced to consider alternative vendors for data services, as a result of economic pressures that are causing banks to tighten budgets, according to a panel of end-users at last week's Amsterdam Financial Information Summit.
A Virtual Boost
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Data Center 3.0
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Power and Cooling
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The State of Data Centers
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Building the Next-Generation Data Center
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Leveraging Utility Computing
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Fund accounting system spend to hit $500 million by 2012
The market for hedge fund portfolio accounting systems will grow from $394.4 million this year to a shade under $500 million in 2012 as managers seek to meet evolving regulatory requirements and develop more automated processes to handle derivatives and…
Demand Drives Index Evolution
As the underlying basis for derivatives and exchange-traded funds, and a means of gaining exposure to new markets, indexes are multi-purpose investment vehicles. But with end-user demand for more index types, asset classes and more granular data, index…
Actively Managed ETFs: Big Bang or Misfire?
A new breed of ETF is evolving. More flexible, more agile, and faster to respond to change, do actively managed ETFs represent the next stage of evolution, or will liquidity and transparency concerns drive them into extinction?
Credit Suisse Centralizes Index Licensing Function
Credit Suisse has centralized its index data licensing and administration function under one person, separate from its market data business, to reduce the overall cost of the bank's index usage by eliminating duplication by different business lines and…
FTSE Preps US Operations, Ticker Plant
Index provider FTSE is to set up regional support and operations functions in North America and Asia, to enable the vendor to source and process data locally, and to respond faster to customer inquiries.
New Kid on the Block
UK data vendor Markit, traditionally known for consensus credit pricing and reference entity data, has stealthily grown into a major mainstream vendor, and is now establishing itself-with last year's purchase of the International Index Company and CDS…
HSBC Ramps Up Custom Indexes Business
HSBC is creating a growing number of custom indexes, in response to investor appetite for targeted investment vehicles, which has spurred demand for the bank's index data and calculation services, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Deutsche Börse Launches DAX Super-Sector Indexes
Deutsche Börse last week launched a new family of sector-based indexes, within its DAX family of German company indexes, designed to be used as the basis for creating investment vehicles, exchange officials say.
Oil, Credit Crunch Boost Sharia Indexes; Data Sourcing Remains a Challenge
The choice of investable Sharia-compliant indexes has increased significantly over the past year-primarily driven by banks and fund managers trying to appeal to Islamic investors and attract wealth from oil-rich Middle Eastern countries by creating…
Lawyers: ISE Suit Threatens Index Industry
Pending litigation between the International Securities Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange and index providers Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's could negatively impact the exclusive licensing of index products, lawyers say.
STAC: 10GE Rivals InfiniBand
Tests conducted by the Securities Technology Analysis Center show high throughput and low latency for the Reuters Market Data System, when using 10-gigabit Ethernet switches and network cards from networking technology provider Teak Technologies.
State Street Completes Currenex Deal
Global financial services provider State Street Corp. has announced that it has completed its purchase of foreign-exchange (FX) trading network Currenex.