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 ]
August 2012-
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).
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.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
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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.
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.
Sponsored by:<...
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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.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
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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.
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 turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
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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 to achieve ...
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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.
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
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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.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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Low Latency and Private Optical Networks Equals Faster ROI
[ Source: Ciena ]
August 2008-
Financial markets firms are overwhelmed by market data and need to build applications and infrastructure that can deliver high performance and ultra low latency to source liquidity pools, execute trades, analyze risk and maintain a real-time order book. To be competitive, firms must receive data from direct exchange feeds and then push that data throughout the enterprise, explains Tom Rice, Research Director, TowerGroup. Firms of all sizes are turning to private fiber optic networks that ...
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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 ...
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Real-time Data Feeds: Creating a Competitive Differentiator Through Event-Driven Trading
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
November 2011-
There's money in the microsecond. Traders today realize that market-moving insights can be gleaned from an ever-growing pool of unstructured data. Leading firms use complex strategies powered by machine readable news to compete in the low-latency space. Automated event-driven trading exploits market inefficiencies or volatility that arises in response to breaking news, economic releases and other events. While the average time it takes for news stories to move markets today is about 4 seconds, Bloomberg's Event-Driven ...
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Big Data and Smart Trading
[ Source: SAP ]
September 2012-
The convergence of big data and smart trading is leading to the rapid development of new, profitable, and often fascinating trading strategies. These strategies extract and harness information from a myriad of conventional and not-so conventional data sources, often on a massive scale. Trading organizations employing these new big data trading strategies are searching for sustained profitability over extended periods of time.
This white paper explains what these strategies are and how to ...
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OTC Derivatives Reform: Linking Market Participants in the Trade Lifecycle
[ Source: IPC Systems, Inc ]
July 2012-
This whitepaper examines the vital role of derivatives in the capital markets, reviews the regulatory initiatives, and provides insights into the communications and connectivity landscape for the OTC derivative trade lifecycle.
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New Delivery Models for Options Analytics
[ Source: International Securities Exchange ]
June 2012-
This whitepaper discusses and proposes a solution to the Big Data challenge faced by industry participants in the US equities options markets. Managing options trading books, running strategies and discovering alpha all require large and increasing amounts of market and historical data, reference data and analytic computations. Analytics are especially key to options trading as participants need to transform raw data into implied volatilities in order to perceive value, and sensitivity measures (i.e. "the ...
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Leverage the Value Locked Up in "Big Data"
[ Source: Savvis ]
April 2012-
Financial services firms are increasingly facing the challenge of "Big Data": unprecedented quantities of structured and unstructured data stored in a variety of systems and formats. Though "big" might mean different things to different firms, all companies report that more data is coming in all the time from disparate systems.
Several issues stand in the way of financial services firms making optimal use of the data they gather - e.g. regulatory requirements, ...
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Sales and Service
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
What are the forces reshaping the financial services industry?
Customer expectations are evolving and new channels are proliferating. Credit and market risks are growing. The lines between traditional and nontraditional banks continue to blur. These and other factors are having an unprecedented impact on the industry, compelling institutions to address competitive threats, solidify customer relationships, and strengthen fraud prevention and security measures.
How has the industry responded?
Forward-looking institutions ...
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Real-time Data Feeds: Creating a Competitive Differentiator Through Event-Driven Trading
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
November 2011-
There's money in the microsecond. Traders today realize that market-moving insights can be gleaned from an ever-growing pool of unstructured data. Leading firms use complex strategies powered by machine readable news to compete in the low-latency space. Automated event-driven trading exploits market inefficiencies or volatility that arises in response to breaking news, economic releases and other events. While the average time it takes for news stories to move markets today is about 4 seconds, Bloomberg's Event-Driven ...
[WHITE PAPER]
Bloomberg Data Feeds - Creating a Competitive Differentiator through Event-Driven Trading
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
June 2011-
The emergence of global trading is driving several important trends, including the consolidation of exchanges, a realignment of industry coalitions, and the emergence of global trading standards.
Today's firms have to adapt to this new climate, while answering continuing calls for optimization and cost reduction. These changes will continue to force companies to embrace open standards and new technologies that promise to reduce system complexity and lifetime maintenance costs while allowing them to ...
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Custom Solutions in Moxy Help First Trust Manage Growth
[ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2010-
A key feature of Moxy is a built-in modeling capability which bridges the gap between portfolio construction and trade execution. The modeling engine has provided First Trust with the scalability to keep pace with its ever-increasing trade volume. “The way our business has grown over the last five years, it just makes a system like Moxy very important,” Mr. Testin says. “When we go to rebalance accounts, we need to automate as much as possible. ...
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Optical Networking for Capital Markets: The Bright Side of Dark Fiber
[ Source: Ciena ]
August 2010-
Nowhere is low latency networking more critical than in the financial services industry, where competitive differentiation and profitability are often measured in microseconds. In recent years, financial firms have made great strides in reducing software, system and intra-network latency to speed transactions dramatically. Now, recent advancements in fiber technologies, end-point hardware and service offerings have created significant opportunity for latency reduction beyond the trading firm’s own data centers.
Read this paper to ...
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Equinix and CFN Services Enable Lowest Latency Connectivity and Collocation Services
[ Source: CFN Services ]
June 2010-
Equinix enables CFN Services to continue to meet the demands of providing lowest latency solutions via their Low Latency Global Exchange Infrastructure, consisting of over 25 data centers across 6 countries.
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