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. <br><...
Demystifying the Cloud
[ Source: Kurt Salmon ]
March 2011-
Cloud computing has been a high-profile topic among technology professionals for the past two years. Publications covering cloud computing have emphasized the public cloud offerings by companies like Google, Salesforce and Rackspace as an easy and cost-effective way to obtain application functionality.
However, cloud computing has much deeper implications for CIOs and their organizations. It bridges the gap between the need for more flexibility from users and CFOs’ need for fewer capital expenditures spent on ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Gaining a Competitive Edge in Capital Markets - How to get cross-tier visibility and control of high-speed transactions
[ Source: OpTier ]
March 2010-
Given the current market atmosphere and intense competitive landscape, the pressure to find more appropriate IT management solutions has intensified and an increasing number of firms in the capital markets industry are looking to find a competitive edge through IT innovation and superior IT management capabilities.
For IT managers and staff, the investment banking computer infrastructure represents a constantly growing challenge in a fast paced environment. Decisions are made in fractions of a ...
Ten Questions to Ask Your Traffic Capture Vendor
[ Source: VSS Monitoring ]
January 2010-
VSS Monitoring presents a 10 question check list for administrators and C-level executives implementing a network monitoring system. The key to achieving end-to-end network visibility is knowing the details of how the traffic gets to network monitoring tools. A few of the many subjects covered are: system connectivity, traffic grooming, latencies, packet optimization technologies, maintaining session-awareness from point of capture to the monitoring tools, and "gotchas" to watch out for. The white paper covers the questions ...
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.
Surviving the Crisis: Tools for the Modern IT Organization
[ Source: Wall Street & Technology ]
April 2009-
As the global financial crisis continues to upend the capital markets, Wall Street IT organizations increasingly are looking for ways to improve efficiency while remaining in position to capitalize on opportunities when the business environment improves. To boost agility and cut costs, many financial services technology organizations are exploring tools such as cloud computing, virtualization, software as a service and outsourcing.
Next Generation Data Centers: Building Intelligent Design Into the Infrastructure
[ Source: Wall Street & Technology ]
January 2009-
Technology executives charged with running Wall Street’s data centers have a difficult balance to strike: On one hand, demand for high performance and low latency to support algorithmic trading has never been greater; on the other hand, subprime write-downs and the troubled economy portend IT budget cuts while skyrocketing energy prices necessitate efficient use of energy. Learn how firms are achieving this balance with the use of state-of-the-art technology and design techniques, including high-speed ...