Hurricane Sandy
Coding in the Trenches: Bjarne Stroustrup, Morgan Stanley
He found fame as the mind behind C++, one of the most popular programming languages ever created. But today, Bjarne Stroustrup is a managing director at Morgan Stanley where he works to create more efficient and secure technology infrastructures.
Lord's Tech as Savior: Michael Radziemski's Tech Vision Helps Lord Abbett Weather Hurricane Sandy
Michael Radziemski has spent the last decade helping to make Lord Abbett & Co.’s IT more mobile and scalable in order to drive the asset manager’s aggressive growth strategy. That strategy proved particularly valuable after Hurricane Sandy battered the…
Pulp Fiction: The Case for Dematerialization
Starting around the mid-1980s, securities depositories and the financial services industry as a whole began to move toward a process of converting paper stock certificates to electronic formats. Reasons of market efficiency and risk reduction are cited…
The Show Must Go On
As regular readers of Buy-Side Technology, Sell-Side Technology and Waters will have noticed over the past week, we're gearing up for the first annual Sell-Side Technology Awards, to be held in New York on April 23.
No Small Gamble: DR and BCP Post-Sandy
Heightened awareness of catastrophe showed itself as technology providers of all ilk endured the landfall and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Tim Bourgaize Murray asks the industry for a primer in disaster recovery and business continuity, discovering a…
Opening Cross: Merry Fiscal Cliffness!
(To the tune of ‘The Holly and the Ivy’)
Max Bowie: Do Crisis Closures Make Redundancy Redundant?
The datacenters supporting the US financial markets successfully weathered the worst of Hurricane Sandy. So, Max asks, shouldn’t the exchanges and trading firms they support have been able to do the same?
Some Disaster Relief Data
Considering giving thanks for good fortune at a time when many are still trying to recover from Hurricane Sandy
Tightening the Belt
It's not just people and processes, but everything else that costs money. Just ask the banks.
Quantifying Catastrophe After Sandy
Business continuity planning is certain to receive renewed attention in the wake of Hurricane Sandy that ravaged the East Coast of the US this week. Reliability will be a focus, but so too should firms seek to better understand the threats.
