A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
Given it was announced at VMware’s VMworld conference and partner-fest in San Francisco earlier this week, it’s not surprising that Voltaire positioned its new Vantage 6048 10gE switch as “optimised for cloud computing.” And while it certainly is pitched at ‘cloud’ data centres with thousands of servers, it is also very relevant to the needs of medium-sized server deployments typically found underpinning low-latency financial trading applications, says Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, at the networking company.





















It’s becoming quite a frequent event - that being the press release from marketdatapeaks.com about a new record high as measured using the Exegy ticker plant appliance that powers it. Today, the release said the record had been pushed up to 3,732,957 messages per second at 9.54am. The previous peak was 3,449,856 mps, which was recorded on Friday.
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