News in Financial Services

The Q4 2009 Intelligence in Finance newsletter provides insights on the latest news and resources from Intel for the financial services industry. Learn about the latest Intel technology roadmaps and recent white papers from IT@Intel.

IBM has announced benchmark results for the Thomson Reuters Market Data System v6.3 that measure the performance of the IBM BladeCenter* HS22 server running Reuters Market Data System v6.3.

ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced qualification and support of over ten server platforms based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (previously codenamed “Nehalem”) from major server vendors. See the press coverage on…

Kx Systems has released version 2.6 of kdb+. This new version offers many exciting features to help achieve the lowest latency possible. Achieving low latency starts with measuring latency, the inclusion of a nanosecond timestamp within kdb+ will allow users to more closely measure and monitor their latency and take appropriate steps to achieve their latency targets.

Fast Company reports, “When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Intel have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today’s meltdown with distinctive strategies for not…

Kx Systems has worked closely with Intel to run a series of performance tests on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series based upon the next-generation Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, and has confirmed major improvements in speed. Read the details…

Scott Ross, executive director of high-performance computing at UBS, and other Wall Street IT experts testified on behalf of Intel’s new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series at an Intel event last night at Nasdaq Marketsite. Read the details at Wall…