Arista Champions New 100GbE Optical Spec, Files To Go Public
Frustrated by the limitations of the current crop of transceivers that have been approved by the IEEE and adopted by the industry, Arista Networks is teaming up with Intel ...Full Article
Telco Calls On GPU-Native SQream SQL Database
Using GPUs to accelerate processing started in earnest six years ago with floating point number crunching in the supercomputing space, but now it is moving into database processing and ...Full Article
Costs Come Down So Equinix Weaves 100GbE Switches Into Datacenters
Everybody wants the fastest network they can get, but speed increases or latency reductions are usually not immediately affordable to all but the extreme cases. It takes time for ...Full Article
NCCC Pushes Credit Card Processing With Xeon E7 Processor
Since its establishment in 1979, the National Credit Card Center (NCCC), the largest credit card processing center in Taiwan, has been working to enhance credit card functionality and services ...Full Article
NY Attorney General Cracks Down On HFT Exchange Co-Location
Going on six years now, America has been waiting to see if there will be any repercussions for Wall Street banking firms for their role in the global economic ...Full Article
GPUs Take Monte Carlo Options Pricing Real-Time
In finance, an option or derivative is a contract that gives a firm the right, under certain conditions, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument. Financial firms ...Full Article
Azul Soups Up Java For Financial Trading
The financial services sector adopted Java as a programming language because being able to recode applications and algorithms constantly is a competitive advantage and Java is easier to program ...Full Article
Financial Firms Ask Red Hat To Bring .NET To OpenShift Cloud
Red Hat is going to be bringing application runtime and database servers of Windows platforms to its OpenShift platform cloud, and some big financial services companies are, as it ...Full Article
IBM Puffs Up Platform Symphony, LSF On SoftLayer Cloud
IBM entered 2014 hitting the cloud drum hard. Taking a page from tech titans like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, Big Blue wants to make it as simple ...Full Article
High Frequency Traders Hedge Bets With IBM Power
Banks, hedge funds, high frequency traders, and other players in the capital markets have a need for speed. IBM thinks that its Power-based systems are better suited for running ...Full Article
