Via a report sponsored by data feed handler specialists SR Labs, the benchmarkers at STAC have just announced data for initial tests run on Intel’s recently-introduced Everest chip. Compared to Intel’s standard Westmere chip, one data point suggests a 22% reduction in mean latency.
Hot on the heels of Colt’s protracted courtship of MarketPrizm comes yet another corporate action in our beloved low-latency infrastructure segment. This one caught us by surprise, but not because it was unexpected. It’s been expected for so long that we’d forgotten about it, to be honest.
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had been open since the departure of Mark Redwood almost a year ago (see more 
By Irfan Khan, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sybase
A-Team Insight Events combine A-Team's expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners. In 2011, a quality constituency will once again gather for these focused events in London and New York City.
Today is the first day of the annual SIFMA show. And each year since it’s been run at the Hilton, Booth 1101 is the very first one that punters encounter following registration. So in some respects, it sets the tone for the entire trade show, and perhaps what is hot in the financial technology marketplace.
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