The Critical Importance of Archiving in the Financial Services Industry
This white paper discusses the requirement for financial services firms to retain content of various types, and it discusses what organizations should do to satisfy these obligations. It also provides a brief overview of ArcMail, the sponsor of this white paper and a leading provider of archiving systems. Click here
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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2011-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM). <br><br>
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service. <br><br>
You discover why changing to ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.<br><br>
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.<br&...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.<br><br>
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge. <br><...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.<br><br>
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.<br><br>
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data. <br><br>
Read this paper and ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats. <br><br>
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development at Sybase, on Information Delivery
[ Source: Sybase ]
July 2008-
Managing and sustaining a continuous flow of data in a low latency environment is critical to organizations in the capital markets industry. Learn about successful strategies for delivering information to the point of use, across multiple groups, so that actual portfolio and trading decisions can be made in real time.
Managing Reference Data Risk -- A Best Practice Approach
[ Source: Patni Computers ]
October 2010-
In recent years, the twin pressures of achieving regulatory compliance and straight-through processing (STP) have highlighted substantial redundancy and duplication of effort in the area of reference data management. Many buy-side and sell-side firms are uncomfortably aware of both the time and cost they devote to purchasing, cleansing, and distributing reference data, as well as the risks that arise when these tasks are not performed effectively, among them failed trades and lost revenue opportunities.
Firms ...
The Advantages of Enabling Order Execution in Hardware
[ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008-
In order to avoid lost opportunities and customers, sell-side firms need to guarantee the rapid delivery of trade-related messages to avoid lost and late messages through back-office order processing systems. Traditionally, firms have relied on software- and server-based systems to process trades. With the increasing volume of orders, the widespread adoption of algorithmic trading systems and the demand for lower latency, existing systems are not able to keep up with the demand. Solace Systems' hardware ...
Manage Time, Effort, and Risk Associated with FIX Protocol Testing
[ Source: HP ]
June 2009-
FIX Protocol has become the industry standard for message exchange in the Financial Services Industry. However, the popularity of FIX is also associated with inherent challenges involved in testing this protocol. Complicated tag library, customized messages and constant upgrades are just a few of the challenges that testing teams have to manage. These challenges can be mitigated by bringing standardization and digitization to the testing process through the implementation of QA best practices, leading industry ...
Risk Management Systems – Flaws, Fixes and Future Plans
[ Source: Sybase ]
June 2010-
Virtually every risk professional agrees that today’s financial services organizations need to analyze more data in less time so they can make better trading and risk management decisions. Yet, the fact is, most firms are still processing their risk at the end of their trading day.
So is your firm doing about it? Wonder what your peers are doing? See for yourself in this FREE report, “Risk Management Systems – Flaws, Fixes and ...
Managing Reference Data Risk -- A Best Practice Approach
[ Source: Patni Computers ]
October 2010-
In recent years, the twin pressures of achieving regulatory compliance and straight-through processing (STP) have highlighted substantial redundancy and duplication of effort in the area of reference data management. Many buy-side and sell-side firms are uncomfortably aware of both the time and cost they devote to purchasing, cleansing, and distributing reference data, as well as the risks that arise when these tasks are not performed effectively, among them failed trades and lost revenue opportunities.
Firms ...
Risk Management Systems – Flaws, Fixes and Future Plans
[ Source: Sybase ]
June 2010-
Virtually every risk professional agrees that today’s financial services organizations need to analyze more data in less time so they can make better trading and risk management decisions. Yet, the fact is, most firms are still processing their risk at the end of their trading day.
So is your firm doing about it? Wonder what your peers are doing? See for yourself in this FREE report, “Risk Management Systems – Flaws, Fixes and ...
Manage Time, Effort, and Risk Associated with FIX Protocol Testing
[ Source: HP ]
June 2009-
FIX Protocol has become the industry standard for message exchange in the Financial Services Industry. However, the popularity of FIX is also associated with inherent challenges involved in testing this protocol. Complicated tag library, customized messages and constant upgrades are just a few of the challenges that testing teams have to manage. These challenges can be mitigated by bringing standardization and digitization to the testing process through the implementation of QA best practices, leading industry ...
Solace's Unified Messaging Platform
[ Source: Solace Systems ]
June 2009-
Solace's Unified Messaging Platform is the first solution that handles all the major types of enterprise messaging in a single purpose-built hardware platform, with a single API and detailed management and monitoring. The Unified Messaging Platform simplifies the messaging infrastructure, improves performance, reduces time to market for new applications and slashes operational complexity and expense.
Solace's Unified Messaging Platform supports ultra-low latency data distribution, high volume fanout, persistent message queuing and WAN-optimized messaging, all with ...
Building Distributed Applications Integrating the Trading Value Chain via .NET Framework
[ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2007-
Many customers in the Securities and Capital Markets industry rely on products from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to obtain solutions for their business needs. These products usually come from different ISVs and they are based on different technologies. Very often, customers are confronted with significant post-purchase deployment and integration costs if they need various ISV products to communicate and exchange data
with each other. This paper describes how Microsoft partners 4th Story, Digipede
Technologies and ...
Microsoft Brings Ease-of-Use to HPC
[ Source: Microsoft ]
July 2008-
Today’s market conditions are requiring a more aggressive approach to the use of HPC throughout the Capital Markets Value Chain. And that is where Microsoft comes in. Its huge investments in high-performance computing have increasingly been catching the attention of Wall Street –- it has shown it can achieve top-level performance in HPC while providing a familiar, Windowsbased environment.
Its first public beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 came out last November allowing customers to ...
Hedge Fund Improves Risk Management and Returns with Grid Processing
[ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2008-
When III Offshore Advisors began looking for better ways to measure the risk in their credit derivatives portfolio, they looked at everything on the market.
“As a hedge fund, we had a pretty sizable budget for investing in this,” said Paul Algreen, CIO at the $4 billion fixed income firm based in Boca Raton, FL. The firm looked at high end SMP servers, Data Synapse, open-source Alchemi and other options before concluding that Digipede met its ...
Complex Event Processing with Coral8
[ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2008-
Complex event processing (CEP) solutions are particularly suited to high-volume, low-latency applications such as those in financial trading, real-time best execution metrics, real-time Web commerce traffic analysis, RFID and sensor network processing, communications network record processing, and more. CEP software provide the platform to quickly analyze the high-speed, high-volume event streams to uncover the opportunities and threads buried inside, and drive immediate actions.
Mobile Solutions Provide "Anywhere, Anytime" Access to World Financial Markets
[ Source: Microsoft ]
August 2007-
Global financial service providers Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners are migrating to Windows Mobile and away from BlackBerry for new mobile applications because Windows Mobile enables them to build more powerful mobile solutions, deliver those solutions faster, and maximize their existing software development environment and skill set.
Transparency, Confidence and Opportunity: Data Management for Asset Backed Securities
[ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2008-
With the implosion of the credit markets and the resulting search for value, firms are looking to better understand the structure and underlying collateral of asset backed securities (ABS) so that they can appropriately value the instruments in their fixed income portfolios.
They are also looking to identify opportunities for extending their positions and take advantage of uncommonly low prices for what are, essentially, high-performing investments. The main problem is that there are many different ...
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