I hear lots about Cloud Computing these days, mostly from vendors about its promise to deliver on-demand compute and storage while reducing costs. I hear words like flexibility and agility, and terms like TCO and talk of applications, such as risk modeling, analytics and pricing. Now, thanks to some benchmarks run by upstart Cloudsoft Corp., with its partners Solarflare Communications, Arista Networks and Citrix Systems, the performance word has been added to the mix, and it’s not at all bad. Which makes me wonder whether - or really when - we’ll see cloud technology underpin trading in the front office.

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