Losing Customers Through Poor Financial Website Performance [ Source: Akamai ]
May 2010- Poor website performance leads to dissatisfaction more often than any other factor, particularly in financial services. As financial institutions add more features and functionality, have the basics of site performance and reliability fallen out of focus? Download this research study to learn more.

Next Generation Datacenter Transformation Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008- Today’s IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on" while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time the very business model of IT is changing —how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered.

These demands and changes must account for the fact that external facing customer experience and corporate branding, as well as internal operational systems, depends heavily on ...

DR Capacity Harvesting Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008- Every day IT is being challenged to do more with less. IT needs to eliminate waste wherever it is identified so precious resources can be invested into developing revenue streams and not merely supporting standard operations. To accomplish this, every ounce of compute power needs to be wrung from existing infrastructure.

The largest area of untapped potential remains off limits for exploitation; the resources set aside for Disaster Recover (DR). Entire datacenters filled ...

Conefessions of a Speed Junkie [ Source: XCodeMonkeys ]
July 2009- This is our attempt to shed some light on what we believe is a rapidly approaching paradigm shift in parallel computing; General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit computing (GPGPU). Recent advances from GPU vendors have paved the way for significant performance gains in the area of financial modeling. Our site will quickly get the reader up to speed with these advances by explaining the basic concepts, providing code examples, and providing links to additional information.

High-Performance Grid Computing for Financial Services: Get the advantages of grid computing the easy way with Infrastructure-as-a-Service [ Source: Savvis ]
November 2012- In the financial services industry, success often depends on timely reaction to market shifts and minimizing the time to assess current positions and make decisions. High Performance Computing (aka Grid Computing) delivers computing power and speed, helping financial institutions to accelerate innovation and improve business success by delivering fast transactions and analyses, even when those involve processing large data volumes.

This white paper discusses the benefits of leveraging a specialized Infrastructure as a ...

Powerful, Open Source Messaging for the Enterprise [ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2011- To compete effectively in their markets, today's enterprises are under pressure to eliminate the barriers imposed by distance, time, and technology. They must be able to create value for their customers - whether businesses or consumers - by delivering a broad array of information to employees, customers, and downstream systems. To do this, they must execute transactions securely, efficiently, and regardless of origination. And they must take action in real time.

Companies small ...

M&A: Leveraging Composite Applications to Drive Merger Integration Strategy [ Source: Roundarch ]
June 2010- David Vanslette, Vice President of Roundarch provides an up-close look at how merging companies can build and utilize composite applications during the M&A technology integration process to improve efficiency and drive down costs. The integration process is extremely important to the business especially in regards to technology, but unfortunately this process is slow and extremely costly as IT professionals decide which IT systems will remain or if similar systems are to be combined. With ...

Open Solutions Canada - Mitigating Risk with INETCO Insight [ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
June 2009- Open Solutions Inc. provides cutting-edge banking technologies and payment transaction processing solutions that help customers compete in the international financial services marketplace. As Open Solutions' service offerings expand, they have identified the need to track financial transactions from beginning to end, so that any service problems or potential cost-saving efficiencies could be proactively detected. They need to monitor financial transaction quality in a passive way that required little service disruption for their customers and does ...

Conefessions of a Speed Junkie [ Source: XCodeMonkeys ]
July 2009- This is our attempt to shed some light on what we believe is a rapidly approaching paradigm shift in parallel computing; General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit computing (GPGPU). Recent advances from GPU vendors have paved the way for significant performance gains in the area of financial modeling. Our site will quickly get the reader up to speed with these advances by explaining the basic concepts, providing code examples, and providing links to additional information.