Latency
InfoDyne Sale Reflects Need for Speed, Volumes
One of the themes of last week's North American Financial Information Summit was the continuing battle to balance the need for low-latency data with the burden of managing rising data volumes. And if any consensus of sorts was reached, it appeared to be…
Firms Balance Latency, Volumes
As datafeeds become faster and more voluminous, firms are becoming more confident with their levels of data latency, and dealing with ever-increasing volumes of data has become their primary challenge, according to panelists at last week's North American…
Editor’s letter: The buy side: more exceptions than rules
It's not often that you come across a buy-side organisation where the level of its technology is considered to be inconsequential to its performance. But that's the impression I got while listening to Simon Hazlitt, co-founder of London-based Majedie…
The State of Data Centers
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BT's Fragmentation Fighters
As regulatory initiatives such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and market forces prompt new trading venues and data sources, the European financial markets can expect to see a fragmented trading landscape in 2008. With network providers…
Asia-Pacific in Hot Pursuit of West
ASIA-Three of the key trends of the US market last year-latency, regulation and data volumes-will emerge as key drivers of market development in the Asia-Pacific region this year, experts say, signaling that the Asian markets are fast catching up with…
From Green Screen to White House?
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Thanksgiving and Turkeys
Thanksgiving, the quintessential American holiday, stems from the first harvest gathered by British pilgrim settlers after being taught how to hunt and grow native crops in the New World by Native Americans. As the story goes, having survived their first…
Panel: Time is Money
One of the biggest obstacles to the development of low-latency data services in Asia is an inability to fully measure latency, because not all exchanges provide timestamps on data messages, according to participants on one panel last week.
Panel: Fragmented Europe Drives Latency Focus
Growing data volumes arising from the emergence of new markets in Europe will increase the use of technology to automate parts of the trading process and prompt a greater focus on latency in the region, according to an industry panel hosted by Colt…
Lack of Expertise Hampers FPGA Use
Hardware-accelerated solutions provide the best hope of dealing with high volumes of market data at low latencies, but may suffer because of the industry's current lack of experience and expertise with the new technologies, according to a conference…
The Hard Way
Accelerating data volume growth coupled with a relentless drive for lower latency is outstripping performance increases in the software infrastructures that financial firms rely on to handle market data. As a result, infrastructure architects are turning…
Latency Top Priority, but Firms Cool on Proximity Hosting
Latency remains a priority to support trading strategies such as high-frequency statistical arbitrage, though firms are examining a variety of options to achieve optimal performance, according to a panel organized by Reuters in London last week.
Hardcore Hardware
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You couldn't make this up
Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…
Gaining the Edge
Technologists are all too familiar with the mantras of the trading desk heads: "I want it faster" and "I want it better."
Thomson Closes in on Low-Latency Space
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