Issue 7 of A-Team Group’s contributed thought leadership quarterly Low Latency - Are You Performing? is now available for download.

Low latency technologies continue to be deployed by the financial markets - driven by the need to adopt them simply to stay in the trading game, and hopefully win at it. But low latency covers a wide range of components - from networks, to server hardware, to operating systems and middleware, to middleware, and to applications. In the low latency equation, there are many moving parts.

And low latency has moved beyond the task of delivering market data to algo trading engines, and coping with surging market volumes. It is now a requirement for every link in the trade execution and processing chain, even beginning to have relevance to risk management operations. In short, low latency is the new normal.

With that in mind, check out the round table inside to get the views of several different players in the marketplace - each brings a different perspective, whether it be high performance messaging, low latency analytics, market data delivery, global order routing or infrastructure issues.

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Issue 6 of A-Team Group’s contributed thought leadership quarterly Low Latency - Are You Performing? is now available for download.

Even as the financial markets undergo unprecedented turmoil, the drive to lower latency shows no sign of abating. Why is this? Put simply, it’s because low latency technologies enable those competing in the financial markets - whether they be sell-side firms, buy-side firms, exchanges or alternative trading venues - to run ahead of the pack. And to win. Such concepts are explored in the round table debate inside, and we thank those that participated for their insight and wisdom.

Also inside are two takes on the world of low latency. Ian Salmon from Fidessa explores how latency impacts the process of order routing, especially seeking out best execution in new fragmented markets. In short, without low latency architectures, these new markets could probably not exist.

Exploring latency from a technology angle is Neal Weiss of Sun Microsystems. Until recently, storage and latency have been at odds with one another. Now, with the advent of solid state disks, that divide is being overcome.

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