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Content tagged with Infrastructure posted in May 2009
Green IT Budgets Expected to Grow
News  |  5/28/2009  | 
Survey of large-company IT execs finds 97% are at least discussing a green IT strategy; 64% said they'd spend at least 10% more for energy efficient technology.
Murex selects Capco as a Solution Integrator
News  |  5/28/2009  | 
Capco and Murex sign partnership agreement.
FIX Flyer Expands into Fixed Income
News  |  5/28/2009  | 
Northern Trust Strengthens OTC Derivative Services
News  |  5/27/2009  | 
Northern Trust Strengthens OTC Derivative Services
NYSE Liffe Clearing Gets FSA Nod to Launch July 27th
News  |  5/27/2009  | 
NYSE Liffe will act as a central clearing counterparty for the London derivatives market through an agremement with LCH.Clearnet.
Teradici Rolls Out Long-Distance Virtual Desktops
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
One partner said to be running low-latency financial applications between London and New York.
MetaBit Selects Solace Systems for Next-Gen Trading Platform
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
Hardware-Based Routers Provide Performance Boost to FIX-Based Trading Platforms.
Chi-X Europe Launches Dark Pool, Chi-Delta
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
Non-displlayed order book will run in parallel to the existing Chi-X Pan European MTF.
Northern Trust Offers Liquidity Monitor for FoHFs
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
Northern Trust Offers Liquidity Monitor for FoHFs is available to Northern Trust’s FoHF clients worldwide, through its Hedge Fund Monitor product, which is available through Northern Trust’s relationship with financial applications company youDevise.
Mellanox Demos 3-Microsecond Latency Ethernet for Data Centers
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
Vendor says its RDMA solution can provide low latency connectors for servers and storage networks.
BM&FBovespa to Launch Derivatives Trading via Co-location
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
New DMA technology allows investors to install servers in the exchange's data center.
'Kill the Comatose Servers,' Says IT Guru Ken Brill
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
Kenneth Brill, technology industry icon and executive director of the Uptime Institute, offers his secrets to an efficient data center in this exclusive Q&A.
Aite Group Analyst Comments on Citigroup Hedge Fund Offering
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
Aite Group Analyst Comments on Citigroup Hedge Fund Offering
Citi's Green Data Centers Provide Environmental and Business Benefits
News  |  5/20/2009  | 
Citi has completed three LEED-certified energy-efficient data centers and is sticking to its $50 billion commitment to environmental efforts, which it says make good business sense.
Cogent To Sell Majority Of Company to Consortium of Brokers
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
Brokers will offer buy-side an online portal to aggregate CCA/CSA balances and pay research providers.
Intalio Launches Enterprise Cloud Appliance
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
A behind-the-firewall, soup-to-nuts enterprise-cloud-in-a-box or software stack, according to Intalio.
Citi Offers Foreign Exchange App for iPhones, BlackBerries
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
Lets individuals and small institutions trade 130 currency pairs on any device with a web browser.
UBS Dark Pool to Launch in Hong Kong
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
Pipeline to Reduce Counterparty Risk via Clearing Solution
News  |  5/18/2009  | 
Pipeline to Reduce Counterparty Risk via Clearing Solution
BIDS Trading Selects NYSE Technologies’ SuperFeed
News  |  5/18/2009  | 
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, has announced that BIDS Trading has implemented its SuperFeed product.
Wall Street IT Budgets Are Fatter Than You Think, Aite Says
News  |  5/18/2009  | 
Reports of budget hemorrhaging are overblown; money is still being spent this year on OMS, EMS, risk and compliance technology, analyst Adam Honore says.
Turquoise to Launch TQ Channel, Dark Pool Aggregation Service
News  |  5/18/2009  | 
Turquoise will begin operating TQ Channel in July, alongside its Pan Eurpean MTF.
Blade Network To Release Cloud-Ready Products
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
New switches will embody the five elements of cloud-appropriate networking — high-bandwidth/low-latency, convergence to Ethernet, massive virtualization, scalable management and energy efficiency — according to Blade.
Wolverine Asset Management Picks Citadel Solutions as Fund Administrator
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
Hedge fund manager selected Citadel for its solid technology and experienced team, according to Wolverine's president.
Sybase Adds Time Series Analytics to Its Capital Markets Platform
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
The addition of high performance time series analytics to RAP – The Trading Edition Enterprise makes developing risk and trading models quicker and easier with faster, deeper time-series analysis of financial data.
Sybase to Offer Its Software Through Amazon’s Cloud
News  |  5/13/2009  | 
Data management, analytics and mobile technologies to be available through Amazon's EC2.
SunGard Launches CRM for Alt Investment Managers
News  |  5/13/2009  | 
Through the integration with Investran Accounting, Investran CRM also helps unify front-, middle- and back-office operations and simplify workflows between teams.
Chinese Securities Firm Selects SunGard OMS
News  |  5/13/2009  | 
Startup Offers to Upgrade Networks to 10 Gig, Keeping Old Cable
News  |  5/12/2009  | 
Arista Networks has announced two ethernet switches that the company says can push 10 gigabits worth of traffic over a 1 gigabit cable.
SunGard Acquires ICE Risk
News  |  5/12/2009  | 
ICE Risk will add real-time exchange connectivity, valuation and risk capabilities for futures, options and swaps across multiple asset classes to SunGard’s Kiodex.
Marketcetera Appoints Former Eze Castle President to Advisory Board
News  |  5/12/2009  | 
Hedge fund technology and investment services veteran to provide strategy for open source trading platform provider
Nomura Asset Management Deploys Eagle
News  |  5/12/2009  | 
The Japan-based buy side firm chose Eagle Investment System to create a centralized data management strategy to mitigate risk and increase business efficiency.
CME Group Dives Into Coreboot and Other Linux Open Source Projects
News  |  5/11/2009  | 
Derivatives exchange forges closer relationships with open source community to communicate its needs.
Wall Street Opens Doors to Open Source Technologies
News  |  5/11/2009  | 
The recession combined with access to a worldwide community of developers is driving capital markets firms to adopt open source technologies in increasing numbers.
29West's Delivers One-Way Latency As Low As 56 Microseconds
News  |  5/11/2009  | 
Low latency messaging provider releases performance report focusing on persistent operation on commodity hardware.
Thomson Reuters Addresses New FSA Requirements
News  |  5/11/2009  | 
The regulations as envisaged by the FSA in CP09/13 will require UK financial institutions to periodically report their firm -wide liquidity levels and perform stress tests to identify funding gap
Neuro Dark To Launch On May 11th
News  |  5/7/2009  | 
Nasdaq OMX said Pan European dark pool will accept non-block trades and internalized order types.
Canadian Regulator to Adopt FIX 5.0
News  |  5/6/2009  | 
IIROC of Canada to use FIX Protocol for market surveillance and transaction reporting.
Saratoga Prime Services Picks Nirvana's Real-Time System
News  |  5/5/2009  | 
The new 'mini-prime' model demands real-time risk management and execution reports.
Lightbox Capital and Mudrick Capital Management Choose Gravitas Technology for Launch
News  |  5/5/2009  | 
Gravitas identified six techniques that will power the next generation of hedge funds, including scalable/variable costs and smarter rather than bigger funds.
Level ATS Dark Pool Is Connected With ULLINK
News  |  5/5/2009  | 
LeveL's low-cost, low-latency dark pool is now accessible through the multi-asset smart order routing and connectivity offering, which reaches over 350 destinations.
Knight Libertas Names Mullineaux Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income Team
News  |  5/4/2009  | 
Citing growth in emerging markets debt, Knight adds to sales and trading staff.
Insight Trading Names new President
News  |  5/1/2009  | 
Kershner Trading Names John Miller as Its President of Insight Trading and Technology, It’s Subsidiary.


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