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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Hardware vs. software solutions – the parasite drag analogy

Posted by on Feb 1, 2011

Stephen Hoogasian is a former US Air Force pilot with extensive experience in application of C2 information systems.  He has reviewed the utility of hardware routers such as Solace’s application within the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense. Mr. Hoogasian flew aircraft including the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and T-38 jet shown here. What is the potential...
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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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Web services and messaging — better together

Posted by on Aug 3, 2010

In the late 70s, Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups struck advertising gold with a memorable campaign in which people accidentally blended chocolate and peanut butter only to discover that they were “two great tastes that taste great together!” Blogging about web services and cloud computing may not be as much fun as writing a commercial for a tasty treat, but today’s announcement that Solace...
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Avoiding the potential carnage of high-speed trading

Posted by on Jun 15, 2010

When it comes to car crashes, running into a wall twice as fast causes a lot more than double the damage. The same principle applies to trading systems: as the market accelerates and financial firms execute trades at breakneck pace, the potential impact of problems with their IT infrastructure increases exponentially. So when it comes to keeping track of the behavior of their trading systems,...
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Rewind: Solace and Liquidnet keynote

Posted by on May 5, 2010

At the recent Ultra-High Performance Technologies in Financial Services event, our CEO Craig Betts and Liquidnet’s Chief Architect Brett Kotch shared the keynote slot to kick off the conference. Craig talked about how the technology pioneered as low latency solutions in financial services often leads to a better world when applied to challenges like homeland security, smart grids and...
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Kernel bypass – revving up linux networking

Posted by on Mar 30, 2010

In Formula One racing, all cars must comply with a defined set of rules (the formula) and find ways to differentiate with a car, driver and support team that all follow the basic guidelines. The same is true of automated trading systems. The formula is simple: each trading system consumes market data and produces orders. What happens in between is how each firm differentiates themselves. Just...
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Latest financial meme: consistent latency

Posted by on Mar 24, 2010

Let’s face it, if you want to get attention on the Internet, you have to fall in line with the concept of memes. These are the ideas that take on a life of their own, such as the dramatic prairie dog or the VP dropping an F-bomb. Twitter’s version of memes is the concept of trending topics based on frequently tweeted keywords. This lets you see what topics people are talking about...
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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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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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