A Team That’s Built for Speed

By Chris Murphy, Wall Street and Technology 22 October 2004 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51000190 It used to be mostly a joke. But when talking these days about the time it takes to get information about a security - when millisecond measurements are standard and the word "microseconds" even occasionally pops up - Archipelago CIO Steven Rubinow is serious when … Continue reading A Team That’s Built for Speed →

Preparing for the Future

By Chris Murphy, Wall Street and Technology 21 October 2004 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=50900405 There are a lot of differences among the six people who make up this year's CIO Elite. Their IT staffs range from a 100-person team at the electronic exchange Archipelago to the many hundreds at companies such as Barclays Global Investors, Lehman Brothers and State … Continue reading Preparing for the Future →

Success Stories

Sun Microsystems Stellar Achievement Award (PDF) By Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems 21 September 2004 URL: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing04q3/js_transcript.pdf ...And finally I want to actually invite up Steve Rubinow who’s the Chief Technology Officer for Archipelago and certainly one of our more colorful customers. But that’s certainly not what the award is for. The award is for outstanding innovation and … Continue reading Success Stories →

Archipelago: Tech Contrarian

By Maria Trombly, Securities Industry News 8 December 2003 URL: http://www.securitiesindustry.com/ At a time when other Wall Street firms are replacing expensive proprietary servers with cheap Wintel or Linux boxes, Archipelago is bucking the trend. Although Archipelago Holdings-the parent of the electronic ArcaEx exchange-initially started out by using Windows servers on Intel hardware, it has since moved … Continue reading Archipelago: Tech Contrarian →

The Programmer’s Future

Will low-cost offshore competition and packaged apps make the in-house programmer obsolete? By Chris Murphy, Eric Chabrow, InformationWeek 17 November 2003 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16100697 Coding software has been a good living for a half million or more--sometimes far more--Americans during the last decade. Now it's the IT job category that bears the highest unemployment rate, at 7.1% this … Continue reading The Programmer’s Future →

Who’s Minding the Storage?

Veritas: The Price of Independence Archipelago's Rubinow needed a tool that would work with storage hardware from different companies. By Jeff Moad, eWEEK 1 July 2003 URL: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1186865,00.asp Remember when you didn't worry about managing data storage? That was before e-commerce, e-mail and applications such as customer relationship management software created an explosion in servers, disks and data. … Continue reading Who’s Minding the Storage? →

Online stock exchange enhances performance, reliability

By Elisabeth Horwitt, Storage Networking World Online 23 June 2003 URL: http://www.snwonline.com/case_studies/online_stock_exchange_06-23-03.asp?article_id=261 An online stock exchange is not the kind of computing environment that can greet an occasional system outage or dip in service levels with a shrug and a "better luck next time." As a recent entry in this highly competitive business sector, Archipelago needed to … Continue reading Online stock exchange enhances performance, reliability →

Storage Innovators

Stock exchange bullish on SAN By M.C. Kincora, TechTarget 15 May 2003 URL: http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid11_gci901204,00.html Editor's note: This is the last in a series of five articles highlighting the recent Storage Innovator award winners. Archipelago took home honorable mention accolades, April 10 at the Storage Management 2003 conference in Chicago. At seven years old, Archipelago is the new … Continue reading Storage Innovators →

Archipelago Serves Microsoft an Ace

By Ivy Schmerken, Wall Street & Technology Online 15 April 2003 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/story/WST20030415S0006 Archipelago is migrating its entire OTC stock-trading business off the Microsoft/Intel platform and onto Sun Microsystems' Unix servers. Sun's track record, coupled with cost savings, security and reliability were key factors in the decision, according to Steve Rubinow, chief technology officer of Chicago-based Archipelago. … Continue reading Archipelago Serves Microsoft an Ace →

Sort Out The System Jumble

Industry standards let customers mix and match best-of-breed systems--but it's far from a snap By Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek 17 March 2003 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8700235 By now, systems integration should be easy. After all, business-technology managers have years of experience connecting computer systems so they can work together -- surely they've worked out all the kinks. In fact, … Continue reading Sort Out The System Jumble →