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 and 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. Read the press release.
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Kx Delivers Nanosecond Timestamps and More in New Version of kdb+
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Keeping Notebooks Past Their Prime: A Study of Failures and Costs
Monday, June 1st, 2009J. Gold Associates, an independent analyst firm, has published this new hard hitting report providing more data on why businesses should maintain a three year refresh cycle. This report concludes that if a business keeps a notebook in service past the recommended three year lifecycle they may incur hardware related costs nearly equal to the cost of purchasing a new notebook. This research report analyzes the failure rates and associated costs for enterprise-class notebook computers deployed in businesses. This report also compliments the recent report from Wipro (2.57MB, PDF) which looks at overall TCO and operational costs. (more…)
SunGard: Performance with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Servers
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009At the recent Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series launch event, Don Tyson, Chief Technology Officer with SunGard, describes his company’s experience with new servers based on this processor. Tyson documents the performance gains for the various SunGard mission critical banking solutions. (more…)
Intelligent Processors. Transforming Computing.
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Intel Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Sean Maloney describes the market drivers that shape FSI demands and then explains how the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series is tranforming computing. (more…)
Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Drawing from his book The Green and Virtual Data Center, StorageIO Group Founder and Senior Analyst Greg Schulz talks about the most significant issues facing IT in terms of “greening” the data center. He explains the energy savings mode of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as illustrating the differences between energy efficiency and energy avoidance in the new processor.
The Changing Dynamic of the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst with StorageIO Group, discusses the new data center architecture and how the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series fits into that architecture offering efficiencies in terms of energy efficiency and in terms of getting more work done in a shorter period of time with a smaller footprint.
Kx Doubles Database Speed with Latest Intel® Xeon® Processor
Monday, April 27th, 2009Kx 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 in Wall Street & Technology.
Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monday, April 27th, 2009Wall Street Systems, who help financial institutions and other enterprises improve their workflows and increase control of corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading, and global back office operations, found their clients wanted the ability to replace their SPARC* and specialized UNIX* boxes with off-the-shelf Intel systems. By offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux* versions of its best-selling financial applications, Wall Street Systems could create new revenue streams and sharpen its ability to compete aggressively against other financial software firms in its increasingly cost-conscious market niche. They also found they could cut costs itself by streamlining international operations. Read the case study. (more…)
Arizona Public Service: Powerful Savings at the Power Company
Friday, April 24th, 2009Arizona Public Service (APS) is continually looking for new technologies that can contribute to the bottom line and to energy sustainability. The company’s IT group is no exception and is working to reduce power use and costs both in the data center and at the desktop. To reduce power usage, the IT team decided to acquire new desktops and laptops with energy-saving Intel® processor technology as part of the company’s hardware refresh program. In the data center, the APS IT team decided to save energy by consolidating its servers onto fewer, more powerful machines. Read about their ROI and the other ways APS IT measures success. (more…)
Intel Security Use Cases
Friday, April 10th, 2009Intel IT security specialists discuss new enterprise security use cases that we can implement using Intel® vPro™ technology. We focused on three high-priority, high-value categories — e-Discovery and investigations, data protection and loss prevention, and system health and updates — and successfully performed lab tests to validate each use case. (more…)