Trading microseconds for nanoseconds

Posted by on Sep 23, 2009

The co-location of market data systems near or inside exchanges is becoming big business. The ultra-low latency high frequency trading systems that you find in these facilities are niche applications to be sure, but what a niche! NYSE Euronext recently committed to build a 400,000 square foot co-location facility in New Jersey. That’s a big investment to make in something NYSE Euronext CEO...
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Giddyup, JMS!

Posted by on Sep 18, 2009

Think of the lowly workhorse, toiling away while his cousin the thoroughbred races to fame. Much like that workhorse, Java Message Service has been relegated to the less sexy applications in the middle- and back-office (such as routine communications between applications and databases, especially in SOA environments) while the high-profile applications where volume and/or performance are...
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Solace and Sun collaborate to simplify financial networks

Posted by on Sep 16, 2009

Many people think Sun Microsystems is in limbo—stuck between the company they were and what they’ll become as part of Oracle. Competitors have suggested that Sun has stopped innovating and that it’s time to move to another platform. But as a close partner of Sun’s, I can assure you that the picture inside Sun is very different. Their best minds are still generating great ideas, solving...
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News on news: products, partnership & standards

Posted by on Sep 16, 2009

This has been a busy news week for us, as we released information about two exciting product developments and a project that we’ve been hard at work on with Sun Microsystems. For good measure, we were included in a fourth announcement issued by OASIS. Below is a summary of the four pieces of news. Watch this space, because we’ll be posting more information about all of this news over...
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The Inevitable Convergence of Middleware into the Network

Posted by on Sep 14, 2009

Today in New York our CEO Craig Betts co-keynoted the High Performance on Wall Street conference with Andy Bechtolsheim and a representative of Barclays Capital. The theme was something we talk about a lot at Solace: the convergence of middleware and the network. The need to effectively route an increasingly massive volume of data at high speed is defining competitive advantage in more and more...
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