Cloud computing
Public Cloud Gets Vote of Approval from Panelists at Waters USA
Finra's CIO says public clouds are more secure than traditional DCs
Microsoft Azure Suffers Interruption
For the second time in less than four months Microsoft's cloud-computing platform falters.
BST North America Panel: Will Cloud Kill the IT Department?
As more firms outsource technology solutions via the cloud, one asset manager questions the need for an internal technology department at all.
Cloud Choices
Security, accuracy, risk and cost are all factors to consider when deciding to use cloud computing resources for data functions, and how to use these resources.
Cloud Computing Remains Tough Sell For Data, Study Finds
A survey of 21 firms conducted by Aite Group found that security and privacy concerns are barriers to more widespread adoption of cloud computing resources for data operations
Tick Data Bows Cloud Data Storage, Access
Historical tick-level trade and quote data provider Tick Data has introduced cloud-hosted options to allow firms without large IT and storage infrastructures to access and run analytics on the vendor's full tick history.
Opening Cross: Everything Comes at a Cost, Even Cloud
Any discussion of return on investment relies on the ability to measure two things: the return generated, and the amount spent to achieve it. In the world of market data, the question is, “How much money can I make as a result of buying and using dataset…
Nasdaq Guts FinQloud, Amazon Web Services Gets Clients
Nasdaq OMX is scrapping parts of its FinQloud financial services-dedicated cloud computing service, handing off some components to partner Amazon Web Services—which provides the underlying cloud infrastructure—and ending support for other key aspects of…
Opening Cross: Market Data Meteorologists: Forecasting the Many Faces of Cloud
Over 200 years ago, British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard laid the foundations for the classification of clouds used today, which, in their various forms, can resemble anything from gauzy material shrouding the sky, to flying saucers,…
FINRA Begins Migration of Market Surveillance Apps to Amazon Cloud, Adopts Big Data Tech
US financial industry regulator FINRA is migrating all of its market surveillance platforms into the Amazon Web Services cloud, to enable the regulator to more efficiently store and process data, in a move that could deliver an annual cost saving of 40…
NAFIS 2014: Cloud's Security Concerns Continue to Outweigh Cost Savings
Firms can deliver significant cost savings by moving their data infrastructures into the cloud, but concerns over security--as well as mistrust of services providers for whom capital markets are not their primary focus--are holding back migration,…
Taking Trader Voice to the Cloud
With cloud computing usage rapidly growing within financial market firms, it was always a matter of when—not if —voice would migrate to the cloud.
Measuring the Operational Benefits of Embracing Emerging Technologies
In part two of this five-part feature on emerging technologies, participants discuss the business and operational opportunities around embracing emerging technologies, specifically the reduced cost and speed to market offered by on-demand consumption of…
Emerging Technologies and the Advantages they Offer Early Adopters
In a recent virtual roundtable on the benefits and challenges around the adoption of emerging technologies, respondents discussed how capital markets firms might evaluate such technologies with the view to creating a competitive advantage. In part one of…
Nasdaq's Sears: FinQloud to Expand from Storage into Better Access
Nasdaq FinQloud's Julia Sears foreshadowed an expanded business model at Waters USA.
OneMarketData Survey: Growing Interest for Data Services in the Cloud
There is growing interest across the financial industry in leveraging cloud computing technology for data-intensive processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost analysis, though adoption of cloud technology to support…
Who is a Pure-Cloud Strategy Appropriate For?
Anthony wonders if over the next decade even larger buy-side firms won't employ an all-cloud IT strategy.
IRD's Editor on Cloud Computing and Data Management
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua identifies the factors in cloud computing data management decisions
A Foot in the Cloud
Data center services providers advise data managers to consider the value of cloud computing functions rather than just the cost savings they may bring
Eze Castle Makes Cloud Push in Asia
Eze Castle Integration is now live with its Eze Private Cloud in Hong Kong and Singapore. In 2010, it opened its first office in Singapore, and this year it entered into Hong Kong.
KVH Prepares Private Cloud Launch
Japanese telecommunications firm KVH will launch a private cloud service next week from its KVH TDC3 data center in Tokyo.
StatPro Plots Revolution in the Cloud
New cloud-based platform scheduled for rollout over the next two years will provide more powerful analytics and flexibility, officials say.