Quants on wall street: Revenge of the nerds

Posted by on Feb 12, 2010

I borrowed the headline above from the title of an interview at Yahoo! Finance today featuring Scott Patterson, the author of a new book called The Quants. His book tells the story of how mathematics took over trading on Wall Street. I haven’t read the book yet (just downloaded on Kindle), but based on the teaser text at Amazon, I was disappointed to see that the author felt the need to tie...
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Why power reduction goals are hard to meet

Posted by on Feb 12, 2010

Every firm is concerned about power, but the problem continues to spiral out of control. Here’s a typical scenario that describe why things are the way they are: The CIO makes what looks like the right declaration: “We WILL reduce power, no matter what”. Then good, honest projects come along that boost the top or bottom line and become exceptions to the “no matter...
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Want a truly green datacenter? Turn off the servers.

Posted by on Feb 10, 2010

You may hate the hype about “Green IT” as much as I do, but the problem it addresses is very real so don’t expect the term to go away anytime soon. There are some interesting stats on how out of control datacenter sprawl is getting in this article in eWeek Europe. In 2020, data centres worldwide will consume about 450 billion kWh and their CO2 emissions (at about 330 million...
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We’re bringing sexy (to the) back (office)

Posted by on Feb 2, 2010

For the last few decades, from the early days of Gordon Gekko and Liar’s Poker to today’s focus on hedge funds and high frequency trading, the sex appeal has clearly centered around the front office. The press loves to write about it and we love to read about it. Every trade is like the proverbial iceberg, though — the trading decision is what everyone sees, but the majority of work...
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Come See us at TCIP 2010

Posted by on Feb 1, 2010

For the next few days our government team will be immersed in the world of emergency messaging and alerting at the Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness conference in Philadelphia. We’ll be in booth #505, so please stop by if you’re in the neighborhood. We look forward to discussing the announcements we made last week (DHS/DNDO as a customer, Thermo Fisher as a partner, and our new...
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