Just doing a bit of catching up with what is going on with Sybase IQ (1,000 terabyte benchmark sounds impressive) and came across the Wikipedia entry for this tech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase_IQ)which mentions at the end that IQ’s compression ability "…achieves a 90 percent reduction in CO2 emissions".…
Some positive feedback about instrument and market data model within our data management system TimeScape:
http://mdavey.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/xenomorph-best-data-modelling/…
Co-location has obviously been very popular in bringing down the latency of trade execution, with algorithmic trading software being located on-site at trading venues by the banks and hedge funds. Interesting problem brought to my attention by a senior equities technologist at one of the banks is that co-location is fantastic at reducing latency if you are considering just one trading venue.…
Peter Randall of Chi-X did a good (well, both aggressive and funny in parts…) presentation at the Intel Faster Trading Event – he put forward the LSE as an "Old-School" institution, saying that in taking trading electronic (years back) the LSE simply computerised the existing human interaction, using software to implement a good(ish) matching engine.…
Went along to the Intel Faster Trading event last night – overall a good event, interspersed with the usual buzzword bingo from some of the vendors presenting/talking! First up was someone from Credit Suisse, fundamentally doing a sales pitch on their algorithmic trading capability to the buy side.…
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