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Aite Group has released estimates that revenue from event processing systems will reach $460 million by 2010 - representing a more than four-fold increase over 2007.

Your thoughts? Does this prediction ring true? Is Aite underestimating or overestimating revenue growth to come?

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I’m writing this blog from the Red Carpet Club at SFO … heading back to NYC in an hour. It’s been a great week out here in the Bay Area catching up with some old friends and making some new ones.

Earlier in the week, I attended the Open Source Business Conference. One of the highlights was a panel featuring Jason Maynard, an analyst with Credit Suisse. He’s very forthright with his views, and sometimes they hurt. A few weeks ago he downgraded Tibco’s stock, in part because of the emergence of the open source messaging project known as AMQP.
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The OMX Nordic Exchange has introduced Proximity Services, developed to facilitate algorithmic trading strategies and to minimize overall latency. Proximity Services allows members of the Nordic Exchange to place their trading equipment within the Nordic Exchange’s trading and market data infrastructure. This allows for high speed market data and trade execution with network latency levels down below 1 millisecond.

OMX News Release

Technorati Tags: omx, proximity, low latency, algorithmic trading

Datafeed vendors need to do more to minimize latency on their feeds, according to a survey conducted by Low-Latency.com and Reuters.  While 30 per cent of respondents felt that vendors were doing enough in this area, an overwhelming 61 per cent felt that more work was needed.  Respondents represented directors and heads of market data at global firms, along with technical and IT departments for both the buy- and sell-side.
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I am posting this from the San Francisco Bay Area, and it just struck me that a couple of major players from these parts were recently the subject of posts on this portal.  What’s more, they are companies that – despite being once huge on Wall Street – I hadn’t expected to be covering in connection with the world of low latency.  I speak of Sybase and Sun Microsystems.
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Automated trading software supplier 4th Story has integrated ACTIV Financial’s Activfeed Direct with its algorithmic trading and data mining offerings, giving them access to low latency direct exchange feeds.
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Securities Technology Analysis Center has released the detailed report on its study of OPRA data through Wombat on Sun/AMD servers and Solaris 10.  Interestingly, the report relates performance results to specific cost drivers, introducing metrics such as “updates per watt”.

STAC News Release 

Let us know what you think of measurements such as”updates per watt.  Is this a useful measurement?  What similar measurements - comparing update rates or latency figures to cost drivers - do you feel are important?  Leave us a comment.

Technorati Tags: low latency, updates per watt, benchmarks, stac, solaris, sun, wombat, opra, amd

In our debut podcast, Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief of A-Team Group, examines the proposed takeover of Reuters by Thomson, and the impact it might have on those using or looking for low latency datafeeds. Peter Harris, President - Americas for A-Team Group, moderates.

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For A-Team’s analysis of the proposed deal, click here:
MDI May 2007 - Thomson/Reuters Deal (PDF File, 56 KB)

Technorati Tags: low latency, reuters, thomson, thomson-reuters, tom glocer

So, those party animals at ACTIV Financial have invited me to a little gathering tonight - at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square - to formally launch ActivFeed MPU, their new hardware-accelerated feed handling software.  It should be an great event, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about the black art of programming FPGAs (that’s Field Programmable Gate Arrays) - an emerging technology that could have a huge impact on low latency systems.
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From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, May 2007: Assuring the latency of the market data infrastructure supporting an electronic trading system is as low as it is says on the tin is becoming a key element of financial institutions’ performance measurement of their high-performance systems.
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