Tying Down the Cloud

For general computing, cloud promises to be a blessing by providing economies of scale and quick time-to-market once all the issues have been hammered out. However, trading, which wants an electronic/optical signal to traverse a set distance in the shortest amount of time, makes the compute cloud a hostile environment.

One interesting proposal I recently heard that had to do with introducing trading to the cloud would have global exchange operators move their matching engines into a cloud and