Datacenter
Magnetic tape looks to find a new life at banks in a cloud-based world
IBM, which recently set a new world record for tape storage, says a lot of its financial services clients use the medium for storage as its cheaper and safer than other digital storage options. Others are skeptical of tape’s long-term prospects.
Vendors Continue to Move Products, Services to the Cloud: Some Examples
Last year, most (if not all) financial technology providers either completed or started major projects that involved moving their products and services to the cloud. WatersTechnology looks at 15 of the more interesting cloud-migration initiatives from…
Waters Wrap: Machine-Learning Models Suffer from Covid (And Exchanges in the Cloud, Pt. 2)
Anthony says that while machine-learning models have been hit-and-miss during the pandemic, NLP is taking on greater importance. He also looks at how exchanges are looking to move their core matching engines to the cloud.
Google Exec: Regulators Insisting on Multi-Cloud for Financial Firms
As regulators fear vendor lock-in and concentration among cloud providers, Google Cloud pushes its Anthos platform.
Banks Forge Cloud Agreements to Split Accountability
Banks are trying to split responsibility for their operating environments with the major cloud providers. Regulators are having none of it.
Banks and Buy-Side Firms Encounter Challenges with Public Cloud Adoption
Moving to the public cloud is not as simple as flipping a switch. Anthony Malakian speaks with early public cloud adopters to find out some of the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Trading Technologies Debuts Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering
Vendor embarks on new strategy with Graystone Asset Management as its first client on the platform.
The Problem Solver: Paul Bari, Nordea
Paul Bari’s career has taken him across oceans and continents, but his true north has always been a fascination with mathematics. Now, he’s tackling not only the future of one of Northern Europe’s largest banks, but its employees, too
Avelacom Debuts South Africa Network, PoP for JSE Access
The new network and local PoP will provide trading firms in the UK and US with low-latency access to data and trading services at the JSE.
October 2018: Coming Together
Data and technology, once firmly separate, are increasingly becoming the same function, both in the industry and in the pages of Waters.
The New Guard: Ryusuke Yokoyama, JPX
Ryusuke Yokoyama sits down with Wei-Shen Wong to discuss his three-decade career at the TSE and JPX, how the exchange is looking to help the industry improve its settlement cycles and how the company is experimenting with blockchain and AI technologies…
Africa’s Sleeping Fintech Giant Stirs
The growth of fintech hubs, and a populace comfortable with digital banking and mobile technology, could signal a new era for African market technology.
Self-Service SDNs: The New Era of Networks
The networks that carry market data and trade orders are on the verge of a paradigm shift that will place more control over provisioning and configuring network services into the hands of financial clients.
VMware Taps Equinix for Private Connectivity
The integration enables VMware's clients to tap into its services on Amazon's cloud using a private connection at multiple global locations.
Bitfinex Joins Market Synergy’s Crypto Connectivity Infrastructure
The network will provide the crypto exchange with access to institutional clients and co-location services.
Auction System Glitch Led To LSE's Morning Blackout
London bourse's trading delay was the first such disruption in years.
Location, Location, Location
The Australian Securities Exchange outlines key considerations for firms weighing up their choice of co-location facility.
Avelacom Adds Second Warsaw PoP for Low-Latency WSE Connectivity
The new PoP in Warsaw's Altman datacenter will allow clients to co-locate in the same facility as the Warsaw Stock Exchange and local market participants.
Crypto Markets Continue Breakneck Pace of Development
The release of professional-grade services by the largest digital currency exchange demonstrates a breathless pace of growth that may be masking wider issues with the nascent asset class, traders suggest.
Asia’s New Tigers: Exchanges Overhaul Aging Systems
Waters looks at major projects being rolled out in 2018 at exchanges in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
ASX to Upgrade Secondary Datacenter
Upgrading ASX’s backup datacenter facility will cost the exchange up to A$25 million ($19.8 million) in capital expenditure.
TNS Adds Co-Lo Hosting Centers in NY, Chicago
Expanding the managed hosting service to key market centers in the New York and Chicago metro areas will help firms gain access to data and trading on "hundreds" of platforms without having to buy proprietary infrastructure.
Chicago Code: A Profile of DRW's Seth Thomson
Seth Thomson, CIO of DRW, talks to Waters about his career, innovation and how the firm has expanded into new asset classes, including cryptocurrencies.
JPX to Build New Backup Datacenter
JPX will build the new datacenter further away from its main site to avoid potential disruption to both locations simultaneously.