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Fusion-io is about high performance Flash - aka NAND - storage, though - as Mat Young, EMEA senior director at the company points out - it would be wrong to view it as a SSD player.  Low-Latency.com asked him to explain ...

A recent performance benchmark conducted by Citihub resulted in a lot of talk about "overclocking" of CPUs, and what the driver for it is. Low-Latency.com asked Chad Attlesey, CTO of overclocking leader Hardcore Computer, to explain what it's all about, how to overclock reliably, and what performance gains might be seen.

Remember Blade Network Technologies? Well, a year ago it was snapped up by IBM, and given the charter to network IBM's enterprise server and storage products, to provide a unified system. Trading firms - and exchanges - were big customers of BNT, so Low-Latency.com chatted to the company's founder Vikram Mehta, now vice president, System Networking, at IBM to find out how IBM is continuing to focus on that business, and about new collaborations within IBM.

Barely a day goes by when there isn't an announcement from one of several wide area connectivity players, which underpin the world of low-latency trading. Sidera Networks is one of those at the centre of the action, and Low-Latency.com caught up with Maura Mahoney, vice president for marketing and business development at the company, to find out what its offering is, how partnerships are playing a key role in its expansion, and where the next growth will be.

In ultra low-latency trading systems, the application to network interface is one cause of significant latency and jitter. Companies like Solarflare have advanced network adaptors designed to overcome those issues. Low-Latency.com got the scoop from Solarflare's vice president of solutions Bruce Tolley.

It's not often one hears about vendor wins at publicity-shy Goldman Sachs, so it was intriguing to learn how they're making use of hardware acceleration. Low-Latency.com caught up with Mark Skalabrin, CEO of Redline Trading Solutions, to find out more about the deployment, and why Cell processors rather then FPGAs are in vogue at Redline.

In the wake of a called off merger with the London Stock Exchange, the acquisition this summer of Atrium Networks by Canada's TMX Group gives it a global distribution network for its data services. Low-Latency.com found out more from Eric Sinclair, president of TMX Datalinx and group head of information services.

NYSE Technologies recently rolled out version 6 of its Data Fabric messaging platform, including significant new functionality for scale out of networks while maintaining very low latency. Low-Latency.com checked in with Brian Doherty, NYSE Technologies' global product manager for Data Fabric, to find out the how and the what.

We came across RedDotNetworks at June's SIFMA show, and were pleasantly surprised they that are based here in Austin, and doing interesting things in the worlds of latency management and FPGA development. So Low-Latency.com caught up with founder George Salemie to find out more about the company, and where it is heading.