The Journal on three world-changing tech trends

Posted by on Jan 30, 2012

There is an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal that details the technology-driven, macro shifts that are happening right now in the world of business. The three mega-trends they cite:Big data – for anyone in IT this is a “no kidding Sherlock” inclusion, but it is remarkable to step back and appreciate how quickly big data is changing the landscape and its long term...
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Ground control to major storm…

Posted by on Jan 10, 2012

Today, we announced a new customer relationship with communications and information technology giant Harris Corporation detailing that they have selected Solace to power the on-the-ground portion of a satellite weather system jointly developed by NASA (the space guys) and NOAA (the weather guys). This is part of a project called GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series)....
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Capturing data streams at “big data” scale

Posted by on Dec 8, 2011

Before you can break into a cold sweat about tackling the design of a system that analyzes big data volumes, you first need to be able to capture the data. More often than not, the design parameters feel like a traffic engineering problem — there are simply too many cars and not enough road. Certainly, LAN and WAN network technology introduces many limits and the largest commercial databases...
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High frequency trading back in the political crosshairs

Posted by on Oct 12, 2011

This week at the Futures Industry Association (FIA) conference, the hot topic is whether government regulators should force the registration and regulation of high frequency trading firms. As this Wall Street Journal article highlights, government regulators know they don’t fully understand the impact of HFT on global markets, especially how they help or hurt non-HFT traders.There is...
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Baseball, the cloud, and big data

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011

As the release of the upcoming movie Moneyball approaches, it’s inevitable that we’ll be hearing much more about baseball’s sabermetrics. ReadWriteWeb is out front of the topic with a nice article today on How Big Data and the iPad have Fundamentally Changed Baseball. This article ties together three of my favorite topics – big data analytics, cloud computing infrastructure and baseball....
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Government agencies show off their new radiological information sharing system

Posted by on Aug 24, 2011

In the past, we’ve issued a couple of press releases (here and here) about some of the work we have done with the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We’ve been working together for the past 18 months or so to deliver cross-agency sharing of real-time information about radiological activity from sensors in major cities,...
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US market data volumes peak above 5M/sec for the first time

Posted by on Aug 8, 2011

The debt ceiling debate and now the S&P downgrade are driving huge headlines and unprecedented market activity. Last week market data rates across the US markets broke new ground by peaking at over 5 million messages a second for the first time. That blew away the previous record (4.2 million messages a second in May) by 20%. Somebody get the oxygen tanks! Since Thursday, US market data...
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It’s “back to the future” for electronic trading firms

Posted by on Jul 18, 2011

 FT.com published another good article on the state of high frequency trading that aligns pretty well with the shifts we have seen in the market. The theme of the article is that opportunities in HFT are becoming less abundant and, as a result, many HFT firms are turning back to quant strategies that differentiate based on unique market pairings or predictions of where the markets will move....
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Enterprises taking cues from cloud computing

Posted by on May 17, 2011

On the Pervasive Data Center blog, Gordon Haff makes the case that cloud computing is not taking over enterprise computing, as was predicted when it emerged a few years ago, but rather teaching enterprises how to better model their own data centers (as private clouds) to share resources and simplify operations. I would add to Gordon’s observations that the rapid adoption of appliances within...
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Short story: New real-time trading requirements proposed

Posted by on May 6, 2011

There was an article yesterday in the Securities Technology Monitor about an SEC proposal to require real time reporting of short sales to increase timely visibility into the short positions on a given instrument. Today, this data is required to be reported monthly or bi-monthly depending on the exchange. As hedge funds and high-frequency trading have become a dominant part of trading volumes,...
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