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Pete Harris

Last week I was in Orlando for SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW event, where the main focus was not on the company's highly successful business and data warehouse applications - revenues in 2012 were around $20 billion - but on a product introduced in late 2010 and said to be its fastest selling ever. Named HANA - in a nod to the company's founder and current chairman Hasso Plattner - the product is an in-memory database, and it is a key player in a technology space that is heating up fast, with applications for both low latency and big data applications.

Pete Harris

Stanley Young has left Bloomberg, where he was CEO of the company's Enterprise Products and Solutions division. He was with Bloomberg almost a year, having joined in June 2012.

Pete Harris

Just a quick post to point back to the recent outing of our Low-Latency Summits, held in New York City on May 1. And also a point forward to our next Summits in the Fall.

Toby Babb

Three very interesting features have emerged in fintech recruitment in the first trimester of 2013. The on off nature of FPGA development has led to cluster hiring in the space, big data has taken strides forward and there has been a noticeable improvement in diversity as companies take steps to add more women to their teams.

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Faced with fundamental shifts in the dynamics of the major capital markets, trading firms are looking to maintain low latency and increase agility, while reducing complexity and cost – especially when it comes to market data and market access. To introduce the issues and options related to market data infrastructure, this industry briefing discusses:

  • Automated Trading Today: Change Brings Opportunity
  • Market Data – Opportunities, Complexity and Challenges
  • Alternative Approaches to Managing Market Data Infrastructure

In its second year this comprehensive London salary survey covers 2,966 separate salary bands ranging from entry level to senior appointments in the financial services and commodities technology sector. The survey has been produced taking data from over 16,500 technology professionals and over 2,200 companies in the industry and gives a comprehensive benchmark of salaries in the following areas:

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It's a bit of a paradox that Java is so widely used across all applications and industries, and yet is often cited as not suitable for the automated trading space. Low-Latency.com caught up with Gil Tene, CTO and Co-founder of Azul Systems, to find out more about Java performance, and how to improve it.

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October 8, 2013 (All day)

The Low-Latency Summit is evolving as the race to zero comes to a conclusion, focusing more on the value contained in vast and complex datasets and...

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The Low-Latency Summit is evolving as the race to zero comes to a conclusion, focusing more on the value contained in vast and complex datasets and...

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FPGA adoption for electronic trading/risk systems?
We are already using them
11%
We are planning to use them
26%
We need to know more about them
33%
We don't plan on using them
30%
Total votes: 27

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