Category: ET-Data ManagementOn 15 Apr 2008 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading 
Vhayu has launched Velocity for Quantitative Research (VFQR), an easy to use data management solution for the quantitative research community.
On 01 Jun 2006 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Competition in the high-performance data management segment got keener this month with the emergence of Skyler Technology’s C3 Database for Dynamic Data, whose early-access developer programme is being announced at the SIA Technology Management conference in New York. Skyler is seeking to differentiate itself within this growing market segment with a three-in-one offering that it believes gives it a unique appeal to institutions seeking off-the-shelf solutions for managing high-speed streaming data in support of electronic trading applications.
On 01 Jun 2006 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
In response to the market’s almost alarming progression from a requirement for low-latency market data distribution to very fast guaranteed delivery of transaction data, Chicago-based 29 West is set to unveil a persistence module for its Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) middleware platform.
A-Team’s Algorithmic Trading Directory, now available, is an easy-to-use reference guide providing the industry’s only apples-to-apples comparison across the algorithmic trading models on offer from sell-side institutions. The directory provides a series of detailed supplier profiles with descriptive information on the algorithms available, and analyses of who should be using them, under what market conditions and when.
On 01 Jun 2006 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Stream processing software provider Streambase is using this month’s SIA Technology Management show in New York to introduce its Streambase Event Persistence & Performance offering, which aims to provide developers of high-performance trading applications with a framework and tools for combining high-speed access to real-time data feeds with a historical data querying capability based on established standard query language.
On 01 Mar 2006 in ET-Client Implementations, ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Gemstone made waves in the electronic trading community last year when it was selected by Bear Stearns to provide the underlying data management platform that would provide its automated trading systems with access to low-latency real-time data, and allow those systems to interact with other applications reliant on the transaction information they generated (Transaction Networks & Technologies, March 2005).
On 01 Mar 2006 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Aleri Labs’ release this month of its Aleri Streaming Platform marks the Chicago-based software company’s official entry into the low-latency data management sector currently populated by the likes of Progress Real-Time, Tibco Software, Vhayu, iSpheres, Kx Systems and others. Aleri’s claim to fame is that its Streaming Platform – unlike the growing ranks of rivals – handles all the aspects of real-time data capture, aggregation, transformation and analysis required for support of complex electronic trading processes.
On 01 Dec 2005 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Merrill Lynch’s deal with low-latency data delivery system provider Wombat Financial Software to jointly develop a standard global market data infrastructure for the brokerage giant’s electronic trading platform marks the fruition of Wombat’s ‘bottom up’ approach to infiltrating large accounts, and takes the form of a strategic relationship that will involve the development by Wombat of between 30 and 40 new feedhandlers.
On 01 Jul 2005 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Massachusetts-based StreamBase Systems used last month’s Securities Industry Association Technology Management conference in New York to unveil Version 2.0 of its eponymous platform for delivering real-time data into electronic trading and other applications. The new version adds a range of functions that extends StreamBase’s reach in providing both infrastructure and a development environment for firms building electronic trading systems.
On 01 Jun 2005 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Oracle’s agreement to buy TimesTen, a provider of in-memory real-time data management systems, brings the big database player into the front-office trading technology infrastructure environment.
On 01 May 2005 in ET-Client Implementations, ET-Data Management, ET-News in Brief, Electronic Trading
Bear Stearns has implemented TimesTen’s data management platform for handling real-time data sources driving its electronic trading applications. Bear Stearns recently adopted Gemstone Systems’ GemFire Enterprise platform to provide core backbone technologies in support of its Program Trading and Global Clearing and Settlement Risk Analytics groups (Transaction Networks & Technologies, March 2005).
On 01 Apr 2005 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Having so far held off from adding access to sell-side algorithmic models to its Traders Console order management platform, Boston-based Eze Castle Software has launched its Algorithmic Trading Framework and announced agreements with five firms to distribute their strategies. Eze Castle, with its core franchise within hedge funds and mid-tier asset managers, has embedded ATF into the Traders Console, creating a standard way of accessing multiple brokers’ algorithmic models.
On 01 Mar 2005 in ET-Data Management, Electronic Trading
Bear Stearns & Co. has selected Gemstone Systems to provide core backbone technologies in support of its Program Trading and Global Clearing and Settlement Risk Analytics groups. The GemFire Enterprise platform will manage in-memory data across Bear Stearns’ enterprise applications, allowing the firm to achieve a multi-fold increase in trading speeds and volumes, and get a better overall picture of risk, pricing and portfolio valuations.
