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June 23, 2009 12:40 PM

Equinix Works with Intel to Boost Trading Performance for London-Based Financial Customers

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, has announced a collaboration with Intel which will enable the community of financial firms located in its London (LD4) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre to optimise their trading operations. From September 2009, fasterLAB, incorporating Intel’s engineering activity for low latency, will be extended into the LD4 data centre, allowing all participants of Equinix Financial eXchange, a neutral marketplace comprising a growing number of financial market participants, to fine tune their operational infrastructure to ensure best possible execution times when they engage colocation operations. This collaboration means that, for the first time, the expertise brought by fasterLAB will be available outside Intel’s own test facilities and in a live production environment.

June 23, 2009 12:28 PM

Tervela Introduces Third-Generation Messaging Platform

TMX-500 Message Switch Redefines Enterprise Messaging with a Smaller, Configurable, Energy-Efficient Solution That Sets New Benchmarks for Performance, Extensibility and Economics Tervela, the leading provider of open, intelligent, hardware-accelerated messaging systems, today announced the introduction of its Tervela TMX-500 Message Switch™. This new platform seamlessly extends Tervela’s product line while bringing a next-generation messaging architecture to a much broader enterprise and financial services audience with more functionality than ever before.

June 23, 2009 12:27 PM

Tervela Rolls TMX-500 - Smaller, Cheaper, Faster …

Messaging systems specialist Tervela has introduced the TMX-500 Message Switch, providing superior performance over its existing product, in a smaller package. The company says it already has some 20 orders for the new switch from existing and new customers - including hedge funds and investment banks - and expects to deliver them in the third quarter.

June 23, 2009 12:22 PM

Volante Introduces Sensible New Pricing for Enterprise Data Integration and Oversight

Volante Technologies, provider of tools for accelerated data management, today announced a new enterprise pricing model for Volante tools for integration, data management and data governance. In addition to perpetual licenses, Volante enterprise tools are now available by annual subscription incorporating all maintenance and upgrades. The result is dramatically reduced upfront costs for financial institutions seeking a comprehensive, unified approach to high-speed integration of incoming data, as well as standard connectivity across the enterprise.

June 23, 2009 12:18 PM

RA-Cheetah Professional FIX Engine Breaks 10 µs Average Latency per FIX Message Using RA Generation Zero™ Technology

Rapid Addition (“RA”) has today announced results of a sustained soak test of its flagship FIX engine over a continuous three-day period. The FIX engine processed more than 3 billion financial messages (inbound and outbound) with an average parse and transmission latency of less than 10 µs with a standard deviation of 3.9 µs.

June 23, 2009 04:05 AM

RTI Launches Next-Generation Low-Latency Messaging Infrastructure

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, today introduced the next generation of its low-latency messaging infrastructure. RTI Data Distribution Service, Financial Services Edition builds on RTI’s widely adopted real-time messaging middleware to reduce time-to-market and facilitate integration with trading applications.

June 23, 2009 04:01 AM

SpryWare Achieves 63 Microseconds Latency on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008™ Platform

SpryWare, a technology provider of standardized market data via direct exchange feeds, today released its latest ticker plant latency report, resulting in an average latency of just 63 microseconds (µs). The extremely low latency was run in an end-to-end test from financial exchange feed to client application. The test was performed using a live OPRA feed from its 48 data channels during market hours on June 9, 2009, on just a single Microsoft Windows 2008™ server.

June 22, 2009 03:07 PM

FIF CAPACITY STATISTICS FOR May 2009: NEW RECORD PEAKS FOR NASDAQ’s OMDF, DAP, ITTO ,UTDF, UQDF & Level 2, BATS TOP, NYSE ArcaBook Options, Deutsche Borse/Eurex CEF Ultra Plus and SIAC CQS.

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that NASDAQ hit several records on its data feeds including the NASDAQ Options Depth at Price (DAP) with 74,161 mps, a 20 % increase on the previous month..

June 22, 2009 03:05 PM

GlobeOp Launches Managed Services

GlobeOp Financial Services is now offering Managed Services in hosted data centers for hedge funds and other data-sensitive organisations challenged by increasing requirements and costs for business continuity and disaster recovery.

June 22, 2009 03:02 PM

Fixnetix Extends its Global Financial Network into Equinix New York and Chicago Area Data Centres

Fixnetix, a leading provider of ultra-low latency market data, trading access and exchange hosting services, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, today announced that Fixnetix has expanded its operations to Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in the New York and Chicago areas in order to offer the lowest latency US data and market access for European firms looking to trade in the US. The move, which builds upon current Fixnetix deployments at Equinix centres in London and Frankfurt, will also provide US-based trading firms, prime brokers and hedge funds with direct, low-latency access to key European markets.