Data Latency News items from Automated Trader

July 1 2008 - Quant House has announced that it has become a data vendor of the Nyse Arca book by releasing its QuantFEED Arca Book, the ultra low latency Real-Time full limit order depth of book information for all listed securities from Nyse Euronext

June 24 2008 - ATS and Fidessa group plc have announced the provision of connectivity, giving Fidessa users access to the fast, cost-efficient and anonymous execution services provided by OMEGA ATS. This extends the community of users that can access OMEGA ATS and allows them to enjoy a greater pool of liquidity in the growing Canadian alternative marketplace.

June 24 2008 - Fidessa group plc has announced that it has delivered data from the London Stock Exchange, with the lowest latency available, for over 200 of its customers. In line with the launch of the new "Performance Channels" service from the LSE, Fidessa undertook a major re-development of its internal systems to handle this new delivery mechanism for exchange data, successfully launching the system live into production on the day the LSE switched on its service.

June 9th, 2008 - Terra Nova Financial, LLC Forms an Alliance with SpryWare for Ultra Fast Market Data Feed in Tradient Platforms

June 9th, 2008 - FIX Flyer, Portware, Volante and Celoxica Leverage Tervela’s Message Network To Transform Trading Infrastructures

June 9th, 2008 - Kx Systems has announced a new version of Kdb+.

June 9th, 2008 - Vhayu launches Squeezer, a hybrid hardware/software solution for 4:1 data compression with no performance penalty and enterprise-level fault tolerance

June 3rd, 2008 - Alphacet, Inc. has announced a new ASP trial program that gives clients 90-days access to test the features and capabilities of Alphacet Discovery.

May 28th, 2008 - Aleri Inc. and ACTIV Financial, , today announced that they are partnering to provide financial institutions with low-latency market data combined with real-time analysis.

May 27th, 2008 - QuantHouse today announced that they have completed the implementation of their worldwide exchange interconnection infrastructure by selecting Equinix datacenters in Chicago and Frankfurt.

May 21st, 2008 - Allied Testing has launched the next generation of their product – BEST 2.0 (Back-End System Tester) – Performance Testing and Test Automation platform targeted at complex distributed server back-ends.

May 21st, 2008 - Vhayu and StreamBase today announced they have joined forces to deliver a tightly integrated platform for real-time and historical market data storage and analysis.

May 16th, 2008 - Solace Systems today announced a partnership agreement with TIBCO Software Inc. to help develop and manufacture a hardware appliance that capitalizes on TIBCO’s messaging software technology and integrates fully into the TIBCO Rendezvous® product family.

May 14th, 2008 - Wombat closed a significant technology contract that will see OneTick deployed across Equiduct Trading. Börse Berlin Equiduct will soon launch this new trading platform, enabling investment firms to meet MiFID’s best execution requirements

Chicago, 11.00 (GMT), 23rd April 2008: 29West and Skyler Technology have partnered to offer extreme low-latency messaging and trading solutions to banks, asset managers, hedge funds, exchanges and others. Steve Cooper, CEO of Skyler, told our reporter: "We believe this will give our clients an industry edge over their competitors,"

April 22nd, 2008 - Corvil Ltd, announced the successful global deployment of its technology at Deutsche Börse.

April 18th, 2008 - As part of its commitment to the open source community, Truviso, a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence solutions, today announced that it has completed an enhancement to the PostgreSQL open source database system that further extends its suitability for streaming data analysis. Truviso also announced it will contribute this enhancement to the PostgreSQL community, reinforcing the company's foundational tenet of building upon and sharing mutually beneficial improvements to open source code with the PostgreSQL community.

April 16th, 2008 - According to TABB Group in a new research note issued today, “The Value of a Millisecond: Finding the Optimal Speed of a Trading Infrastructure,” the ability to quickly receive, manage and relay order book information has become critically important to the competitiveness of exchanges and electronic communication networks (ECNs). This has lead exchanges to evolve toward the newer ECN model, which is why TABB Group estimates that 56% of all exchange revenues are exposed in 2008 to latency risk, up from 22% in 2003.

April 15th 2008 - Solace Systems, today launched the Solace 3260 Content Router, the next-generation platform in its 3200 Series Content Networking System product family. The robust Solace 3260 holds up to 10 special-purpose hardware networking blades to provide the best-in-class performance, manageability and low cost of ownership required by today’s distributed application architectures. The Solace 3260 Content Router adds more muscle to the product lineup that is built around the Solace 3230 Content Router, which is currently in production with customers around the world.

April 14, 2008 – Collaboration Addresses Growing Need for Grid and Cluster Management Systems in India Market Region

April 2nd 2008 - Hibernia Atlantic announced that Hibernia will provide Ethernet transport services to the aggregation of companies operating within Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) centers in the Chicago, Frankfurt, New York and Washington, D.C. area markets.

April 2nd 2008 - At the Intel® Developer Forum (IDF), now in progress in Shanghai, XtremeData™, Altera®, and Intel® Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) are demonstrating acceleration of a full double-precision floating point simulation of a Monte Carlo financial simulation analysis. This demonstration for the first time combines the Intel® QuickAssist Technology, Altera’s high performance Stratix® III FPGA family, XtremeData’s XD2000 family of In-Socket Accelerators (ISA)™, and the new XtremeRNG™ library of building blocks for random number generation (RNG) to significantly accelerate financial and scientific Monte Carlo applications.

April 2nd 2008 - BT today announced it will provide connectivity to Chi-X CanadaTM, through the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure. Chi-X Canada is a high-performance, fully anonymous and low-cost continuous alternative trading system (ATS) for Toronto Stock Exchange listed senior equities. This will enable a community of more than 10,500 financial services sites worldwide access to Chi-X Canada and its no-cost market data.

April 1st 2008 - Enterprises seeking to cope with increasing business velocity must revolutionize their analytic and decision-making foundations, says Truviso. The company today announced the latest version of its software, which features added high-availability configurations, an expanded analytics development framework, and simplified integration with enterprise data sources and user interfaces. Truviso enables businesses to implement a massively scalable, grid-ready solution for analyzing high volumes of data generated by dynamic, many-to-many business applications with virtually no disruption to their existing IT infrastructures.

April 1st 2008 - J-Oil Exchange Pte Ltd (J-Oil Exchange/JOX), today announced the deployment of Trayport’s GlobalVision Exchange Trading System, enabling existing and new members to integrate with the exchange. The implementation maintains JOX’s existing bilateral settlement mechanism, and provides the ability to support cleared products across multiple asset classes on a single server application throughout Asia.

March 31st 2008 - Caplin Systems Ltd, today announced the release of Liberator Free Edition (Liberator FE), a high performance Ajax/Comet streaming server that delivers real-time data to and from subscribers over any network, and includes JavaScript client and Java server integration libraries. Liberator FE is the only Comet implementation that can deliver over one million complex messages per second and support up to 30,000 concurrent users on a single server.

March 25th 2008 - QuantHouse has announced that a continental European arbitrage trading firm, Arbitragis, has selected its QuantFEED ultra low latency market data feed solution.

London, March 13th 2008 - Turquoise, today announced that it will use NeoNet's XG Market Data software to obtain real time data from across the European equity markets.

March 11th 2008 - ICAP has announced that ICAP real-time data is now available for use in enterprise-wide business applications through the Reuters Integrated Data Network (IDN), a high-performance network collecting, collating and distributing real-time market data.

March 4th 2008 — Tervela has announced that the Tervela Message Network can process over 10 million messages per second in a real-world test environment. Tervela’s fault -tolerant message switches can route every piece of US market data available – including all equities, derivatives, commodities and FX instruments – and send it out to over 1500 subscribers. The mean baseline roundtrip message latency was 58 microseconds with a standard deviation of 8 microseconds. The mean latency numbers increased by only 18 microseconds during peak load conditions – even during sensitive phases such as market open and close – which are subject to radical changes in volatility.

March 5th 2008 - Trading Systems Associates plc has announced TipOff Latency Feed, a new product based on TipOff, its middleware analysis appliance. By using TipOff Latency Feed, financial firms can increase trading profits by integrating real-time latency information into automated trading models. TipOff Latency Feed supplies real time, high resolution latency data, enabling pricing latency of execution venues to be compared. When integrated with execution systems, the TipOff Latency Feed enables the time delays between order/fill acknowledgement and the impact on the public order book, to be tracked across execution venues. The new feed is also invaluable for infrastructure monitoring and Service Level Agreement (SLA) reporting purposes.

March 3rd 2008 – BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC, has announced that it has enhanced the real-time trade performance monitoring in Perform-Ex,SM its web-based transaction cost analysis platform. Perform-Ex is part of ConvergEx’s advanced suite of liquidity management technologies, designed to address today’s faster electronic market structure.

March 3rd 2008 - Reuters haslaunched its Reuters Latency Monitor (RLM) to meet growing demand for monitoring the speed or latency at which market data is delivered. RLM offers customers continuous monitoring of system latency in real time with the ability to generate alerts if the speed of the data falls.

March 3rd 2008 - Fixnetix has announced that it has extended the level of market connectivity and data services to Winterflood Securities. Currently Winterflood's direct market access trading service is connected to the LSE via the Fixnetix low latency and highly resilient infrastructure. Under the new contract Winterflood will receive LSE, Euronext and Xetra market data directly via Fixnetix to support its European trading desk and also to enable its direct market access service to connect to these additional exchanges.

March 3rd 2008 - Following its successful implementation of Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet market data platform, Tradition Group (www.traditiongroup.com/uk) has extended this system to manage contributions to Bloomberg in London. The migration of the Bloomberg contributions from the previous system was achieved in a matter of days.

February 19th, 2008 – Exegy, Inc. has announced that its high throughput, low latency Exegy Ticker Plant is now available with the LSE Level II data feed.

February 13th 2008 - Pure Trading has appointed Transaction Network Services to provide connectivity via its fully managed Secure Trading Extranet. This will facilitate high capacity, low latency and cost effective connections with new and existing customers.

February 12th 2008 - GL TRADE connects more than 150 clients to 60 worldwide exchanges via the GL CONNECT ASP service. The ASP service hosts and maintains all trading and market data feed hardware and software, allowing brokers to benefit from rapid deployment with minimum financial and technical investment.

February 7th 2008 - Wombat Financial Software Inc. has announced the launch of its real-time conflation solution, Wombat Traffic Control. The solution, which has been developed in conjunction with a number of the firm’s key Tier 1 customers over the past six months, is designed to control the volume of data published to downstream trading applications.

February 4th 2008 - Trading Metrics has announced Market Latency Metrics, a new software application that measures real-time trading system throughput, market data latency and Exchange delays.

January 31st 2008 – InfoDyne Corporation has announced that multiple customers have deployed into production its solution for the new ArcaBook Multicast for Equities full depth Orderbook feed from NYSE Euronext. The new FAST version replaces the existing TCP/IP based datafeed.

January 29th 2008 - Vhayu has announced that 29 new customers from across the globe were added to its client roster during 2007, tripling the company’s revenue in the process. The new customers have licensed Vhayu Velocity either directly from the company or as the Reuters Tick Capture Engine, powered by Vhayu Velocity which Reuters resells under a non-exclusive license.

January 23rd 2008 - SpryWare LLC has announced that they are expanding their New York presence. SpryWare is already working with several clients in the region, and the New York office will serve as the firm’s base of business development and support for the East coast.

January 22nd 2008 - InfoDyne Corporation has announced that Man Investments has deployed InfoDyne's TPS+Plus feed handlers for Bloomberg's B-Pipe on Demand (BPOD) datafeeds. The solution provides seamless integration of BPOD within Man's existing RMDS production system.

January 21st 2008 - Reuters has announced the launch of Reuters Data Feed Direct (RDFD) for the Options Price Reporting Authority’s (OPRA) FAST enabled data feed. Reuters Data Feed Direct OPRA is designed to process over one million updates per second using industry leading technology to leverage OPRA’s FAST implementation, allowing clients to reduce bandwidth cost.

January 21st 2008 - IBM, Intel and Cisco have announced that they have opened a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, expanding IBM's existing HPC facility in Montpellier. This will offer customers, business partners and independent software vendors the ability to test and benchmark analytic software, engineering, aerospace design and other high-performance applications.

January 14th 2008 – GemStone Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of the GemCache data transaction benchmark with Intel and IBM. The benchmark, conducted by the Securities Technology Analysis Center, tested the distributed in-memory caching solution in a transactions environment measuring throughput and latency under varying rates of order traffic.

January 16th 2008 - Fixnetix has signed an agreement with Chi-X Europe to deliver market data and trading connectivity. Fixnetix has connected to the Chi-X matching engine with a round trip latency as low as 400 microseconds in order to provide the ultimate Chi-X connectivity solution for Fixnetix customers.

January 14th 2008 – BEA Systems, Inc. has announced a new framework approach to utilize the BEA Weblogic® Event Server. In partnership with Lab49 and Intel, the framework is designed to address key challenges in today’s front office in capital markets, such as scalability, low latency, high-throughput, flexibility and high performance together with resiliency.

January 14th 2008 – GemStone Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of the GemCache data transaction benchmark with Intel and IBM. The benchmark, conducted by the Securities Technology Analysis Center, tested the distributed in-memory caching solution in a transactions environment measuring throughput and latency under varying rates of order traffic.

January 14th 2008 - NYSE Euronext has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Wombat Financial Software. This strategic acquisition broadens NYSE Euronext’s offering of comprehensive market-agnostic connectivity, transaction and data management solutions to customers globally by integrating Wombat’s industry leading and rapidly growing market data enterprise software and services with the NYSE TransactToolsSM connectivity and messaging business.

January 10th 2008 - 2008 Equinix Inc. has extended its Financial eXchange community in Europe with the addition of Chi-X Europe, the first order-driven pan-European Alternative Trading System. The company will take advantage of Equinix’s premium datacentre services and distinctive Financial eXchange approach to ensure the optimum performance and ultra-low latency response times for its solution.

January 9th 2008 - GL TRADE has announced the signing of an agreement with the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange. From April 2008 onwards, this partnership will allow the delivery of a complete, robust ASP infrastructure connecting TASE members to the majority of financial marketplaces worldwide, while also enabling them to receive and execute orders from any country on the exchange.

January 8 2008 - FalconStor Software, Inc. has announced that its technology has been chosen to enable Xasax Corporation to offer ultra-low latency financial market data to active trader and financial services organizations.

January 8th 2008 – Gissing Software has announced that the new alternative investment platform, launched by Malbec Partners, is using Gissing Software’s technology as its core infrastructure. The system went live on 1st November 2007.

January 7th 2008 — Vhayu has announced the availability of new data feed handlers on its Velocity product line. The additional feed handlers will allow financial institutions looking for consolidated feeds from Activ Financial, IDC and Lava or direct exchange feeds from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange, to provide further access to broader feeds. Customers will also have access to a Feed Handler Development Kit, allowing them to develop direct connections to any market data source.

December 18th 2007 - The International Securities Exchange today announced the launch of a colocation service, providing ultra low-latency connectivity to ISE’s options and stock exchanges. With the colocation service, ISE member firms will be able to place their trading hardware in the same building as ISE’s data center, which will facilitate network transit times of less than 200 microseconds.

December 17th 2007 - XtremeData, Inc. today announced it is now shipping the first AMD Socket F (1207) based In-Socket Accelerator. The device is compatible with the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor and incorporates dual Altera high-performance Stratix II FPGAs.

December 19th 2007 - QuIC Financial Technologies Inc. has announced that it has partnered with Intel for testing of Intel's new Harpertown quad core 45Nm processors. QuIC's thorough testing of Intel's new Harpertown processors showed promising double digit performance improvement results in client risk management and simulation trials.

December 7th 2007 – Wombat has announced a remarkable milestone in middleware technology that provides market-leading density on open, standard x86 hardware. The software company demonstrated this performance by running a full day of data from OPRA, the US options market, on a single Intel-based server available in a single rack unit (1U) form factor.

December 6th 2007 - In cooperation with Etisalat, BT will establish a platform that distributes services from the UAE exchanges to BT clients connected to the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure. The portfolio of services will provide financial institutions from around the world with connectivity to institutions and trading platforms in the Gulf region.

December 5th 2007 – RTS Realtime Systems Group has announced an agreement with The Bond Buyer’s RapiData to become the first ISV to provide its users with direct access to RapiData’s new low latency digital economic data feed. The agreement enables RTS to offer users of its algorithmic trading tool, RTD Tango, the ability to incorporate economic news releases into their automated trading strategies – enabling them to instantly react to new information about U.S. inflation, employment, productivity and a host of other indicators.

November 4th 2007 - Transaction Network Services is providing clients with trading access and real-time pricing for Chi-X Europe. A secure fully-managed connection will link TNS' Secure Trading Extranet to the pan-European multi-lateral trading facility (MTF).

November 29th 2007 - InfoDyne Corporation has announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Real-Time Innovations to offer RTI’s ultra low-latency messaging middleware as an embedded transport option within InfoDyne’s TPS+Plus Market-Data Platform.

November 29th 2007 - Equinix Inc. has added Fixnetix to its rapidly expanding financial eXchange community in Europe. The company selected Equinix to provide direct access to Deutsche Boerse's market data streams, and to join the Equinix financial eXchange community in Europe to provide the highest performance market data streams and exchange trading connectivity to community members.

November 27th 2007 - Corvil is to power Deutsche Börse Group’s new Eurex market data service. Eurex is Europe’s leading derivatives exchange and the growth in order and quote volumes requires a low-latency network for swift data transmission.

November 27th 2007 – TIBCO Software Inc. has announced the general availability of TIBCO Rendezvous® 8.0. This provides even lower and more predictable microsecond latency, improves manageability, and delivers the reliability to address IT challenges and aid business responsiveness to threats and opportunities relevant to the financial services and other real-time data-driven industries.

November 26th 2007 - ObjectWave has announced the launch of JGrinderX, a next generation persistence and data-caching framework for grid computing solutions. JGrinderX is an intuitive framework that provides the transparency developers need to efficiently create applications for systems that share large amounts of operational data and process high volumes of transactions.

November 26th 2007 - Blue Systems has launched blue and blue mobile, the world’s first low cost market data software. Offered over desktop and/or mobile devices, the software enables global real-time financial market data, news and company financials to be displayed through low cost, intuitive, analytical software.

November 20th 2007 - Digipede Technologies and Zeliade Systems have announced that Zeliade will grid-enable their applications using the Digipede Network, and deliver the Digipede Network for their financial services customers.

November 15th 2007 — StreamBase Systems has announced a partnership with Reuters extending StreamBase Studio to make it easier for developers to build high value event processing applications powered by the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) and StreamBase.

November 19th 2007 - ICF Systems, has enhanced its services to clients with fast, secure and reliable trading connectivity provided by Transaction Network Services' extensive global IP network, its Secure Trading Extranet.

November 16th 2007 – Quant House has announced its offering of full market data access to Chi-X ® Europe Limited, the first live, order-driven, pan-European MTF (Multilateral Trading Facility).

November 13th 2007 - Azul Systems and GemStone Systems have announced an alliance to deliver highly scalable and available data grids for Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP).

November 7th 2007 - ICAP plc and Equinix, Inc. have announced the introduction of a new premium ICAP connectivity service for financial market participants trading in North America. The new service, i-Cross, will provide a high-bandwidth, low latency connection to both ICAP’s BrokerTec and EBS platforms from a common data center for the first time and will be available before the end of the year.

November 6th 2007 – Interactive Data Corporation has announced that its Real-Time Services business will deliver a broad range of real-time data to power Financial Mechanics LLC’s proprietary trading applications.

31st October 2007 - CME Group has announced the launch of the FIX/FAST(SM) market data format, which allows customers to receive market data more efficiently. Based on FIX(SM) and FAST(SM) market data protocols, FIX/FAST is aligned with industry messaging standards and is the basis for CME Group's new market data distribution. It improves scalability, allows customers to reduce bandwidth and offers reduced latency at both average and peak message rates.

November 1st 2007 – Paremus and EsperTech have announced a partnership agreement that will deliver dynamically deployable, scalable, distributed, Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) with enhanced resilience. Esper is a lightweight multi-platform open source ESP/CEP engine designed for high volume real-time event stream and correlation processing where storing data in traditional databases for later querying is not a business option nor technically possible.

November 1st 2007 - TIBCO Software today announced that Equiduct has selected its messaging software as the foundation for their European Trading System (ETS). Equiduct, which will support the industry's first regulated pan-European market to meet all of the statutory commitments defined by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), has fully standardised ETS on TIBCO Rendezvous(R) to more efficiently deliver market data and trade information in real-time between various components of its trading model.

October 30th 2007 – GemStone Systems, provider of distributed data management and virtualization solutions, today announced GemFire Enterprise 5.1, a core component of its high-performance, enterprise data fabric (EDF). The new GemFire Enterprise 5.1 release serves as a distributed operational data management infrastructure that sits between clustered application processes and back-end data sources to provide very low-latency, predictable, high-throughput data sharing and event distribution.

October 29th 2007 — Vhayu today announced the launch of an enhanced version of Velocity, its patented market data platform. Velocity Order Book Analyzer 2.0 will allow clients to see more data faster by providing visibility of prices and liquidity across markets in a single display. It is also the first solution to combine real-time and historical market data analysis and storage for order books.

October 22nd 2007 - Corvil Inc., provider of next-generation network and application performance management solutions, today launched CorvilNet 4.0. This new platform maximizes application performance through the control of network latency and loss.

October 22nd, 2007 - NeoNet, the global DMA agency broker and trading technology provider, today announced its connection to Chi-X, Europe's first alternative equities trading system that directly competes with traditional exchanges.

October 16th 2007 - NYSE TransactToolsSM, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX), today announced that connectivity to the BATS market center is now available via the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure® (SFTI) ®.

October 16th 2007 - BT today announced that it will provide Chi-X® Europe, a pan-European equity alternative trading system (ATS), secure hosting and low latency connectivity through Radianz Proximity Solution. As a result, Chi-X Europe clients will now have the option to co-locate their trading engines and achieve near-zero trading latencies.

October 16th, 2007 - FXCM (www.fxcm.com) recently introduced its new systems trading platform – Forex System Selector (FSS) Clients now have the ability to customize and manage an automated trading system.

October 15th 2007 - IBRIX, Inc., the leader in scalable file serving solutions, and Mellanox™ Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX, TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced the first scalable Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that offers network connectivity using InfiniBand interconnect technology.

October 15th, 2007 - Reuters has increased the number of venues available via Reuters Data Feed Direct (RDF-Direct) by adding nine new feeds to its direct exchange data service across America, Europe and Asia.

October 11th, 2007 - Aegis Deploys StoreVault S500 to Address Its Fast-Growing Storage Capacity and Meet Critical Business Requirement for Fault Tolerance

October 10th, 2007 - GL TRADE has announced that it is developing new market data based on Multi-cast protocol in order to be ready for the implementation of the new broadband access on Euronext cash and derivatives markets.

October 8th, 2007 - Helium Systems has announced the release of TradePVR Version 2.0.

October 4th, 2007 – NYSE TransactTools has announced that Liffe is now available via the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure.

October 2nd, 2007 - Aleri and Fixnetix have announced that they are partnering to provide financial institutions with the combination of low-latency market data and the ability to analyse and act on it in real-time.

October 2nd, 2007 - Reuters and BT have announced the launch of a low latency Proximity Hosting Solution for hedge funds trading on the Singapore Exchange Limited.

September 27th, 2007 - Interactive Data Corporation has announced the Basket Calculation ServiceSM, a new web-based offering that is designed to provide clients with the indicative optimized portfolio value (IOPV) for equity and fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs).

September 26th, 2007 - Orc Software has announced that ICAP is utilising Orc Software’s CameronFIX and CameronFAST solutions for its foreign exchange (FX) trading capabilities.

September 25th, 2007 – Collaborative Solution for Reuters Market Data System Enables Financial Institutions to Reduce Latency by 38 Percent within Their Trading Systems

September 24th, 2007 - 29West and Voltaire have announced support for 29West’s Messaging API’s on Voltaire’s InfiniBand solutions, providing system architects with the high performance of Voltaire’s InfiniBand-based switches and software and 29West’s low latency messaging technology.

September 19, 2007 - Arcontech has launched CityVision Calculation Engine, the latest addition to its award-winning CityVision software suite.

September 18th, 2007—Tervela has announced a hardware accelerated messaging platform that gives the global banking industry the capacity to outpace the explosion of volume and volatility spurred by increasing levels of automation, regulation, and the emergence of new liquidity sources.

September 17, 2007 – RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS) has announced that it has further extended its application services provider (ASP) facilities. The new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the Colt Proximity Facility, provides ultra performance and low latency connectivity to Eurex, Xetra and other leading exchanges.

September 14, 2007 – FFastFill announced today that it will be one of the first technology providers to offer 100 megabit (Mb) connectivity to the LIFFE CONNECT electronic trading platform. The move vastly increases the speed and capacity of connection compared to the 2Mb lines LIFFE CONNECT offers as an alternative.

September 12, 2007 - Gissing Software today announced that the company has decided to offer a free online trial of its Microsoft Excel add-in. End users have confirmed that after testing the software, it was more responsive and reliable than other market data vendors’ solutions. When comparing the latency of data feed triggered price updates to Excel from rival applications, Gissing RealtimeXL demonstrated a 30-40% increase in direct cell inputs under conditions of high market activity.

September 10, 2007 - Interactive Data Corporation today announced that its Real-Time Services business has gained greater share in the global hedge fund market, as it now delivers low latency data to more than 50 hedge fund customers in the U.S. and Europe.

September 4, 2007 - Wombat Financial Software, and OneMarketData, today announced a partnership where Wombat will resell and integrate OneTick within Wombat’s high performance market data platform. Traders, analysts and technologists across the capital markets stand to benefit from the features and economic advantages this product can offer - the first tick capture and analysis solution built by algo trading veterans specifically for the particular challenges of this business.

September 4, 2007 - Quant House announced today its new status as a market data vendor for the London Stock Exchange. Quant House will combine its own feed handler technology and proprietary global fibre optic network with the Exchange's real-time market data delivery system Infolect. Infolect processes more than 15 million messages a day with a latency of two milliseconds per message. The new Quant House service will deliver sub-millisecond connectivity of the Infolect data stream to hedge funds and latency sensitive financial institutions in Chicago, New York, Paris, Frankfurt and London through their single Application Program Interface.

September 3, 2007 – GL TRADE, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with BT to connect the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure to three of its major Asian GL HUBS in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan.

August 14, 2007 - Interactive Data Corporation, and InfoDyne today announced that the two organizations have formed a new relationship focused on simplifying access to a broad range of global low latency data.

August 14, 2007 - GigaSpaces Technologies today announced the successful integration of its high performance eXtreme Application Platform into Sun Microsystems' strategic Market Data solution to help capital markets customers process high volumes of market data in extremely short processing times, and scale to meet the volumetric growth of market data that is doubling each year.

8 August, 2007 - BT announced today that it has become a provider of extranet connectivity for the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX). TAIFEX will utilize the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure to support the distribution of the exchange’s real time market data, which will be available to more than 10,000 financial service sites worldwide.

July 31, 2007 - Designed to improve competition and level the playing field for investors, the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and the US Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS) are poised to drastically change the way the global securities industry handles market data. New research from TowerGroup finds that regulatory compliance will ultimately pave the way for firms to completely automate the trading process.

July 26, 2007 - Financial connectivity provider Transaction Network Services, Inc. has unveiled a newly enhanced suite of exchanges, available via its Secure Trading Extranet.

July 17, 2007 - Solid Data Systems, Inc., introduced today StorageSPIRE™, a cost-effective line of managed solid-state disk arrays providing up to a Terabyte of high-speed, non-volatile storage that dramatically increases response times and throughput for transaction-intensive applications. The StorageSPIRE SSD array is a direct replacement for high-end RAID arrays or an alternative to in-server memory systems, and can be direct-connected or used as a shared device when deployed on a storage area network.

July 17, 2007 - Interactive Data Corporation, today announced that its Real-Time Services business will provide real-time data to BNY ConvergEx Group’s trading and investment technology platform.

July 16, 2007 - Tenfore Systems Ltd, an independent provider of real-time and historic global market data, today announced that vwd group, Germany’s largest provider of financial information systems, is live with Tenfore’s FX data feed, Tenforex. This enables vwd to provide accurate, real-time prices to over 40,000 terminal and web-based customers in Germany, including private banking, wealth management and retail banking firms. Tenforex is an independently-sourced feed based on currency rates from over 30 major contributors.

July 11, 2007 - Real-Time Innovations (RTI), today announced the availability of RTI Recorder, a software solution for logging the high-throughput data, events and messages that drive the behavior of distributed real-time applications. Activity recorded by RTI Recorder can be used for future analysis and debugging, regulatory compliance, and replay for testing and simulation purposes.

July 2, 2007 - Interactive Data Corporation, today announced that its Real-Time Services business has enhanced its low latency, digital PlusFeedSM service with the addition of new global OTC content and a remodelled, institutionally-oriented representation of existing data sourced from Tullett Prebon Information, a leading provider of independent real-time price information from the wholesale inter-dealer brokered financial and commodity markets.

June 27, 2007 - Arcontech asserts that its CityVision suite is the fastest application on the market for publishing prices and other data in real time, with latest performance details showing competitors are still struggling to match its speed.

June 25, 2007 - GigaSpaces Technologies today announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to deliver an analytics solution that allows financial services organizations to process high volumes of transactional data in extremely short processing times. The combined solution delivers real-time trading data in front-office applications based on Microsoft technologies, including Office Excel 2007. It combines the latest Microsoft technologies - Excel 2007, Excel Services, User Defined Functions (UDF) and Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 - with GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) and Enterprise Data Grid to deliver superior usability, performance and scalability.

June 21, 2007 - BT has announced that global buy-side traders, trading through Singapore Exchange (SGX), can now utilise Radianz Proximity Solution. This will enable traders to execute extremely low latency electronic trading on the SGX derivatives market from any location across the globe.

June 20, 2007 – Wombat Financial Software, today unveiled the next generation of their messaging platform, dubbed Wombat Data Fabric. Over a year in development in partnership with Voltaire, this new technology is based on open standards and proves that proprietary “appliance” approaches taken by some firms attempting to improve messaging capacity are not necessary. Wombat Data Fabric can sustain more than one million 200-byte messages per second over a Voltaire switch in less than 100 microseconds using commodity hardware.

June 19, 2007 – BIDS Trading the newly formed alternative trading system announced today that they have signed an agreement with Orc Software. Orc Software, a global provider of technology for advanced trading, market making and brokerage, will provide BIDS Trading with their CameronFIX Universal Server for FIX order flow and connectivity.

June 19, 2007 - Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc., have announced that it has been approved by the London Stock Exchange to provide worldwide, low-latency access to the exchange’s Infolect™ market data service. The London Stock Exchange is the world’s premier international equities exchange, transacting more than £6.7 trillion of equity business in 2006. The strategic alliance between the two companies allows customers across the U.S. and around the world to access the London Stock Exchange via the Yipes network for the first time. Yipes, the only managed Ethernet services provider to be approved by the exchange, will provide access to Infolect via Yipes FinancialConnect!™, the first Ethernet-based financial Extranet for electronic trading.

June 19, 2007 - Orc Software, a global provider of technology for advanced trading, brokerage and connectivity, today announced the release of CameronFAST — the reliable and fast industry standard implementation of the FAST protocol (FIX Adapted for STreaming).

June 18, 2007 - Kx Systems, today announced the latest release of the kdb+ low-latency database platform. Kdb+ v2.4 supports the world's largest financial firms, those handling as much as a billion time-ordered events a day, in obtaining instant intelligence from their streaming data.

June 13, 2007 - Arcontech has announced the first independent feed handler for Chi-X, the recently launched pan-European ATS (to be known as a multi-lateral trading facility on the introduction of MiFID). This brings free market data a step closer by enabling Chi-X data to be distributed via Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet applications, used by financial institutions for publishing market data on large networks and the Internet.

June 12, 2007 - AMD today announced the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana, is now among the many leading stock exchanges that depend upon AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems to conduct billions of stock trade transactions daily. Borsa Italiana has joined AMD’s growing roster of global exchange customers, including NYSE Group, Inc., the International Securities Exchange’s Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Montréal Exchange and Philadelphia Stock Exchange. These customers rely on AMD Opteron processors to deliver competitive advantage through incomparable scalability, cost/performance and performance-per-watt.

June 8, 2007 - UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking can now use Transaction Network Services’ (NYSE:TNS) Secure Trading Extranet, to connect with the Warsaw Stock Exchange.