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Intel is bringing its fasterFS event series to New York City, with the running of fasterSTREET on the evening of November 14th. The event will discuss how applications and infrastructure come together to create the fastest solutions on the street. Attendees will secure an understanding of the changes in the trading lifecycle now that StatArb funds are driving the latency debate and DMA services are becoming a crucial competitive advantage for sell side and dark pools.
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GemStone Systems has released GemFire Enterprise 5.1, a core component of its enterprise data fabric (EDF). The new release serves as a distributed operational data management infrastructure that sits between clustered application processes and back-end data sources to provide very low latency, predictable, high-throughput data sharing and event distribution. By managing data in memory, GemFire Enterprise 5.1 enables high-speed data sharing that turns a network of machines into a single, logical data management unit or a data fabric.

GemStone News Release

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Vhayu has launched an enhanced version of Velocity, its patented market data platform. Velocity Order Book Analyzer 2.0 will allow clients to see more data faster by providing visibility of prices and liquidity across markets in a single display. It is also the first solution available on the market that combines real-time and historical market data analysis and storage for order books, the vendor says.

Vhayu News Release

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Exchange feed provider Essex Radez has introduced the latest extension to its Clarity tick history service. Joining the Clarity-Live offering, which provides intraday tick history on all domestic exchange feeds, the new Clarity-HD offers algorithmic and other application developers interactive API access to all quote, trade and administrative messages sent over direct exchange feeds since August 2006. Feeds include OPRA, all domestic equity exchanges and ECNs, all domestic futures exchanges and others.

Essex Radez News Release 

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FSMLabs has released Enterprise Real-TimeNet, a networking stack which lowers and guarantees network latency, network bandwidth and network task execution with round-trip worst-case times of 50 microseconds.

Real-TimeNet controls network I/O CPU processes with its controllable, zero-copy deterministic hard real-time networking stack that improves routing, security and enterprise fault-tolerance by decoupling/separating soft real-time network calls from hard real-time network calls. This creates a “Real-Time Processes Layer” which eliminates network bottlenecks and increases network data throughput, FSMLabs says.

FSMLabs News Release

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Corvil, a provider of next generation network and application performance management solutions, has launched CorvilNet 4.0. Built around advanced microsecond traffic measurement and real-time QoS-aware algorithms, CorvilNet 4.0 sets a new standard for network performance monitoring and intelligent bandwidth provisioning analysis, the vendor claims.

Corvil News Release

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The London Stock Exchange is using Corvil’s latest technology to help manage latency in the network and achieve high performance levels in its new trading system TradElect. The solution deployed in the London Stock Exchange consists of microvisibility and low latency analysis software and services provided by Corvil, running on top of newly released Application Deployment Engine (ADE) appliances from Cisco Systems, Inc.

Corvil News Release

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A panel session hosted last week by Interactive Data Corp. on Reg NMS and its impact on market data volumes was notable for the spirited discussion among the panelists, covering subjects including projected versus actual data volumes, market structure changes and the impact of technology advances of data volumes. Moderated by IDC’s Mark Hepsworth, the panel comprised: Tom Price from TowerGroup, BT Radianz’s Chris Church, Steve Listhaus of Wachovia and Vijay Kedia of Flextrade Systems.

Listen to the session here

Technorati Tags: interactive data, reg nms, market data volumes, bt radianz, towergroup, wachovia, flextrade

Low latency messaging vendor 29West has established sales and support offices in Hong Kong and Beijing, and plans to open in Tokyo next month. 29West will be supported in the region by Serisys Solutions, a local provider of IT services to the financial markets. Serisys chairman Tim March and CEO HK Mo of Serisys have been named as representing 29West.

29West News Release

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Oracle caused a bit of excitement at the end of last week when it made an unsolicited bid for BEA Systems. BEA’s rejected it of course, saying it undervalues the company. All standard procedure. We’ll see what Oracle’s next move is. But if the transaction does happen, it will bring together some useful technologies that have merit in the world of low latency.
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