Lindsay Lohan, Sigmund Freud and back office acceleration

Posted by on Dec 7, 2010

I read a news story yesterday about nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who claims that the internet has made us a less serious and deep thinking people. The thrust of the claim by the Peruvian-born winner of this year’s prize for literature is that the internet is driving everyone to a shorter attention span focused on entertainment, at the expense of advancing deeper and more...
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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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The LSE Outage: Who’s next?

Posted by on Sep 8, 2008

The London Stock Exchange suffered an outage for the majority of the day today, a day after the news about the US government seizing control of Fannie and Freddie. There is never a good time for an exchange to have an outage, but today is just about the worst possible day for this to occur. No meaningful details are available yet from the LSE to pinpoint what caused the outage. This Reuters...
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