2010 World Cup: Bet on Solace and NovaSparks

Posted by on Jun 9, 2010

Over the past two to three years financial services firms have gone from viewing hardware appliances as a curiosity to viewing them as a necessity. There are three key reasons that hardware has caught on:Performance — for high-volume, highly repetitive tasks, special-purpose chips such as FPGAs, network processors and GPU’s have consistently been shown to outperform software running on...
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Back to the future: the return of appliance-based computing

Posted by on Apr 8, 2010

There was a good article on the Enterprise Systems website this week about the increase in popularity of purpose-built appliances on many fronts across the datacenter. The points it makes will be familiar to readers of this blog: IT organizations like the model for the same performance and security reasons vendors do, but also because deployment is a breeze and the initial and on-going costs of...
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Hardware trading: The machines are taking over…

Posted by on Mar 22, 2010

With each day that passes it becomes more obvious that hardware is replacing software in the critical path of high performance trading. It doesn’t take a genius to see what’s happening, as the evidence is everywhere:Feed handlers: All of the recent entrants into the feed handler market are using custom hardware. Messaging middleware: Appliances from companies like Solace are winning...
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Specialty hardware named a Gartner top strategic technology for 2009

Posted by on Oct 16, 2008

Gartner just released their list of their 10 top strategic technologies for 2009, and ‘Specialized Systems’ came in at number six on the list. From their press release: Specialized Systems. Appliances have been used to accomplish IT purposes, but only with a few classes of function have appliances prevailed. Heterogeneous systems are an emerging trend in ...
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Hardware acceleration in the spotlight at HPoWS

Posted by on Sep 29, 2008

Last week at the High Performance on Wall Street event, conversation was dominated by the role that specialty hardware can play in accelerating financial trading environments. Technologies like FPGAs, network processors, ASICs and even GPUs were the center of discussion as firms with direct experience shared performance metrics, specialty hardware providers communicated their advantages and...
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