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April 8, 2009 10:58 PM

AboveNet Joins Equinix Financial eXchange in London

Connectivity provider AboveNet has joined the Equinix Financial eXchange community in Equinix’s London-Slough (LD4) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre. AboveNet will provide direct fibre links between Equinix’s LD4 and its London City (LD1) IBX centre, facilitating low latency access between the financial market participants operating in each of the centres, as well as other strategic partners and customers located in LD1.

April 7, 2009 11:06 PM

XtremeData Joins HP's Acceleration Program

XtremeData, which develops FPGA-based in-socket accelerators for high-performance computing and low latency applications, has joined the HP Accelerator Program, making its XD2000F accelerator available for the rack-mounted AMD microprocessor-based HP ProLiant DL165 and HP ProLiant DL185 servers.

April 6, 2009 12:31 PM

CSI Introduces Open Market Data Feed Handlers

Later today at the High Performance Linux on Wall Street conference in New York City, the Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) will announce first products based on its Open Market Data (OMD) architecture, which was created to address the need for a standards-based solution for distributing financial services market data to trading applications. The products are an open set of feed handlers supporting the three highest volume exchange data sources: FAST OPRA V2, ArcaBook Multicast and ITCH 4.0.

April 3, 2009 11:53 AM

Atrium Adds POP at Geneva's GV1 Data Centre in Geneva

Connectivity and network services provider Atrium Network added a point of presence at Equinix’s GV1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Geneva. The move will give financial services customers operating in Equinix’s GV1 centre with access to Atrium Network’s low latency connectivity capabilities, and gives Atrium Network a presence in Geneva.

April 1, 2009 09:42 PM

QuantHouse Leverages Intel Xeon 5570 for 3.3 Million MPS

Algo-trading technology specialist QuantHouse has released a benchmark for its feed handler, which can now process 3.3 million messages per second, using Intel's new Xeon 5570 2.93 GHz microprocessor. The benchmark was performed at Intel's fasterLAB.

March 31, 2009 03:34 PM

IBM Adds Four Direct Feeds to WebSphere Front Office Platform

IBM has added four new feed handlers to its WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets platform. The move continues IBM’s process of expanding the platform’s feed-handling offerings within the low-latency, direct feed segment.

March 31, 2009 02:46 AM

Savvis Introduces Low Latency Connectivity to Chi-X Canada and Turquoise

Savvis has introduced low latency connectivity options with Chi-X Canada and Europe's Turquoise, following on from recent connections with Nasdaq OMX, Bats, CME Group and the London Stock Exchange.

March 30, 2009 10:00 PM

Low Latency Applications Benefit from Intel 5500 Chips

Developers of low latency trading and market data applications are likely to benefit from new Intel Xeon 5500 Series microprocessors introduced today. Based on Intel's new Nehalem architecture, the chips are expected to offer much improved performance and less power consumption compared to current chips, especially in the areas of multi-threading, memory access, interconnect technology for co-processors and XML processing.

March 25, 2009 03:23 PM

Need to Know News Offers Lightning Bolt in Equinix Frankfurt Centre

Need to Know News has begun providing its Lightning Bolt algorithmic news feed service within the Equinix Frankfurt-North (FR2) International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centre, in addition to its current availability within Equinix centres in the New York and Chicago areas.

March 24, 2009 10:25 PM

Switch and Data Creates Financial Services Practice; Addresses Data Volumes and Latency

Data centre infrastructure services vendor Switch and Data has set up a financial services practice, with a focus on addressing data volume and low-latency issues. The company offers hosting and interconnection options in close proximity to liquidity providers in New York, Chicago and Toronto.