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Corvil, a provider of IT monitoring systems for high performance businesses, has integrated its CorvilNet Enterprise Monitoring Solution with the Cisco Nexus 3548 ultra-low latency switch. The collaboration will provide high performance traders with Corvil’s trading systems data monitoring and analytics overlaid on a Cisco advanced switching infrastructure.

Perseus Telecom has rolled out a certified time service to allow trading firms to accurately timestamp market data and transactions for regulatory and algorithmic trading purposes. The service taps technology from Certichron, which Perseus is now selling and maintaining at a number of market data centres, with more to come.

Corvil, a provider of monitoring systems for the high-performance financial industry, today announced the general availability of its new Corvil Enterprise Monitoring System. The new solution is based on its flagship CorvilNet platform and delivers the same powerful combination of high speed data capture, distributed transaction-application-network monitoring, and real-time business analysis. New enterprise application transaction monitoring and an enterprise-reporting module are now included to support a broad range enterprise IT activities.

The latency arms race has seen trading firms co-locating applications closer to execution venues, investing low latency network and messaging infrastructure, and more recently starting to figure out how best to couple high bandwidth fibre links with low bandwidth but lower latency microwave links. Low latency infrastructure engineering is becoming a mature science. Less mature is the art of Low Latency Application Engineering.

This workshop reprised the history of latency reduction, working up through the layers of the technology stack, concluding that the remaining significant latency gains will be extracted from trading applications rather than the infrastructure layers they rely on. It reviewed the complexities involved in Low Latency Application Engineering, where we turn our backs on decades of abstraction and developers have to become expert in coding for low level details of the specific hardware their applications will execute on. We saw how all roads lead to application instrumentation becoming an essential tool in achieving best ROI in latency optimisation efforts. We concluded by examining state of the art techniques in Precision Instrumentation applied to Low Latency Application Engineering.

• Henry Young, CEO, TS-Associates
• Mark Edwards, Device Driver Guru, TS-Associates
• David Riddoch, Chief Software Architect, Solarflare Communications

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The headline states the basics that you need to know about - London on Tuesday, February 19. The Low-Latency Summit has been running in London (OK, under some aliases) since 2010, evolving along the way with a focus this spring on 'convergence' - which means how low-latency, cloud and big data technologies are combining to underping automated trading. Here's some more about what you can learn about by attending ...

Corvil, a provider of monitoring and management solutions for high-performance trading, has been selected by Abu Dhabi based ADS Securities (ADSS) to monitor their new FX platform. ADS Securities provides sophisticated forex, bullion and commodities trading solutions to institutional and professional investors. The CorvilNet solution will allow real-time monitoring and greater transparency of their trading infrastructure.

Datacom Systems today announced that IPC Systems, a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms and global enterprises, will be the first customer to deploy the new TradeView appliance, the revolutionary breakthrough in the realtime monitoring of market data feeds – delivering 5x the speed at half the cost of traditional monitoring tools.

Emulex Corporation, the leading provider of converged networking solutions, and Endace, a leading supplier of network visibility infrastructure products, announced today that Emulex has issued a Takeover Notice, under the terms of the New Zealand Takeovers Code, pursuant to which Emulex will make an offer to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in Endace in an all cash transaction. Endace is a network performance management company that provides network monitoring appliances, network analytics software and ultra-high speed network access switching with 100 percent accuracy.

FSMLabs, provider of network software for high-precision time synchronization and distribution, today announced that TimeKeeper on Mellanox ConnectX-3 interconnect adapters is available. The joint solution enables correlation of systems logs to system time, enabling auditing and analysis of multiple logs at the same level of time precision, plus the ability to synchronize both NTP and PTP time messages at sub-microsecond precision. Precision and reliability have been validated in production trading environments by several joint customers including a tier-one bank.

The latency arms race has seen trading firms co-locating applications closer to execution venues, investing low latency network and messaging infrastructure, and more recently starting to figure out how best to couple high bandwidth fibre links with low bandwidth but lower latency microwave links. Low latency infrastructure engineering is becoming a mature science. Less mature is the art of Low Latency Application Engineering.

In this workshop we briefly reprise the history of latency reduction, working up through the layers of the technology stack, concluding that the remaining significant latency gains will be extracted from trading applications rather than the infrastructure layers they rely on. We review the complexities involved in Low Latency Application Engineering, where we turn our backs on decades of abstraction and developers have to become expert in coding for low level details of the specific hardware their applications will execute on. We see how all roads lead to application instrumentation becoming an essential tool in achieving best ROI in latency optimisation efforts. We conclude by examining state of the art techniques in Precision Instrumentation applied to Low Latency Application Engineering.

• Henry Young, CEO, TS-Associates
• Davor Frank, Senior Solutions Architect, Solarflare Communications

Click here for the slides that accompany this recording.

ITRS Group and Datacom Systems today announced their partnership to launch TradeView, a breakthrough real time monitoring solution of market data feeds. This joint proposition provides an exciting new approach to the monitoring of critical trading infrastructure, rendering traditional server-based technology obsolete.