While last week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference was down overall in terms of numbers of exhibitors, one segment had more of a presence compared to previous years: companies offering co-location (sometimes referred to as proximity) services. Joining show stalwarts like BT and Savvis, and recent comers such as Fixnetix, were names including CoreSite (formerly CRG West), Equinix, GlobeOp Financial Services, Interxion, Switch and Data, Telx and Xand Corp. The continuing pursuit of lower latency for market data delivery and trade execution was the driver for the increased show presence, and of those companies’ offerings.
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Category: Delivery Technologies
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Co-Lo Services: Adoption Rises, Competition Increases » |
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| 30 Jun 2009 FREE | RTI Gears Up to Address DDS Market Growth |
A-Team IQ talks to SunGard’s Harold Finders and Yassine Brahim about the takeover of GL Trade; what the Oracle-Sun tie up means for the fintech industry; Why Brazil is becoming the offshore location of choice for the European financial sector; following Lehman’s collapse, why knowing your counterparty is essential for risk management; market data platforms for the real world; can Twitter deliver results for fintech companies, and more…
| 26 Jun 2009 FREE | NYSE Technologies Launches Market Data Platform V5 |
MARKET DATA PLATFORMS: Infrastructure to Handle Your Data Challenges » |
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On 25 Jun 2009 |
Download new 12-page white paper from the NYSE Technologies and A-Team Group
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| 24 Jun 2009 FREE | Eikos Partners Teams With Kaazing to Deliver Cutting Edge Technology for Financial Services Organizations |
| 24 Jun 2009 FREE | Hudson Fiber Network Launches Exchange Connect with Switch and Data Providing Sub-millisecond Access to the Financial Markets |
| 24 Jun 2009 FREE | New IBM High-Speed Market Data Delivery Platform Gives Financial Firms an Edge in Electronic Trading |
| 24 Jun 2009 FREE | IBM Demonstrates Cloud Computing Solutions and Record-breaking Low Latency Messaging Performance at SIFMA 2009 |
| 24 Jun 2009 FREE | CJC to Upgrade MF Global’s Market Data Platform |
| 23 Jun 2009 FREE | Equinix to Build the Company’s Fourth Data Centre in Zurich to Accommodate Customer Growth Requirements |
| 23 Jun 2009 FREE | Mighter Liberates Financial Institutions with Launch of New High Speed Digital Freedom Remote for Trading Floors |
| 23 Jun 2009 FREE | Voltaire and NYSE Technologies Deliver Industry’s Lowest Latency Ethernet Solution to Accelerate Financial Market Data Applications |
| 23 Jun 2009 FREE | Tervela Introduces Third-Generation Messaging Platform |
Tervela Rolls TMX-500 - Smaller, Cheaper, Faster … » |
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Messaging systems specialist Tervela has introduced the TMX-500 Message Switch, providing superior performance over its existing product, in a smaller package. The company says it already has some 20 orders for the new switch from existing and new customers - including hedge funds and investment banks - and expects
to deliver them in the third quarter.

