Cloud
Back to Basics
Features and functionality are nice, but without a decent front end, even the most advanced trading engine can have a false start.
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.
Citi's Hill: Cloud Augurs 'Biggest Shift Since Desktop Browsers’
At this week's Waters USA conference in New York, executives from UBS, Lord Abbett, and Citi agreed that on matters of cloud, the questions will be “how” and “when,” rather than “if.”
StatPro Adds Options, OTC Derivatives to Revolution
Analytics platform expands coverage to meet demand from clients building more complex cross-asset portfolios
Open Platform: Assembling the Big Data Puzzle
Harnessing the potential of Big Data will require financial firms to invest in a combination of solutions that include unstructured data analytics, visualization tools, cloud compute and storage, along with a full understanding of the challenges that…
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.
Cloud's Green Reputation May Be Overblown
Cloud computing provides obvious efficiencies in both cost and energy consumption. But behind the good vibes are some overlooked ways that large datacenters may be hurting the environment.
Progress To Make Available Beta Version of Connectivity Solution
The DataDirect Cloud service will be fully delivered in the second quarter of next year.
PrimeOne Introduces SwapCloud Platform for Buy Side
The prime brokerage services arm of CoreOne Technologies, PrimeOne, says its cloud-based offering will feature a range of swaps products derived from equities, convertible and corporate bonds, sovereign debt and futures, as well as Indian participatory…
Linedata Partners With StatPro for Portfolio Analytics, Reporting
Linedata has announced that it will team with StatPro in order to provide integrated portfolio analytics and reporting to asset managers via the cloud.
Reinventing the Wheel: Due Diligence Takes on Greater Importance in the Cloud
Without a set of acceptable standards, hiring a cloud services provider is like walking a new labyrinth each time. A BST panel tries to lay down a familiar trail of breadcrumbs.
Majedie's Foray into Contextual Blogging Seeks to Eliminate Internal Email
Combining relationship management information aggregation with scalable IT architecture represents a paradigm shift for nimble fund managers.
AIG Chartis CTO: Get the People Equation Right
Good technology implementations follow a fairly basic formula: the right plan plus the right technology plus the right team equals success. For Mary Kotch, CTO for the Americas at AIG Chartis, the most important part of that equation is the people.
Nasdaq, Amazon Launch Data Management Platform
The cloud service is intended to ease the burden of regulation-mandated data storage and granularity.
Equinox Turns to Cloud, Triples AUM
The CTO at a small Denver alternative asset manager opts for private cloud.
Business Continuity is Dead, Long Live Business Continuity
Regulators begin to wake up to cloud risks.
Layer Cake: The Rise of Platform-as-a-Service
Cloud is the catch-all term encompassing a number of different components. Of those, software-as-a-service is the most prominent, although platform-as-a-service now offers similar, predominantly hardware-focused benefits to the financial services…