NYSE Euronext Data Centers and the Next-Generation Network

NYSE Euronext Data Centers and the Next-Generation Network (PDF) The data centers in Basildon, England and Mahwah, NJ, will change the face of the exchange. By DatacenterDynamics Focus January 2010 URL: http://server14a.pressmart.net/DatacenterDynamicsFocus/Index.aspx?issue=Issue07 URL: http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1vq0n/DatacentreDynamicsFo/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.datacenterdynamics.com%2Fmagazine The floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) remains one of the world’s most iconic locations. Images of traders staring at screens in … Continue reading NYSE Euronext Data Centers and the Next-Generation Network

Ultra-low latency in action

Ultra-low latency in action (PDF) By The ValuePlus Quarterly January 2010 URL: www.scribd.com/doc/25687941/The-Value-Plus-Quarterly-January-2010 NYSE Euronext (NYX), the world’s most diverse exchange group, and Juniper Networks are working together to design a state-of-the-art, ultra-low latency core network for NYSE Euronext’s new consolidated global data centres....(click on link above to view entire story on p6).

NYSE/Euronext powers ahead with Unix-to-Linux migration

By Pam Derringer, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 10 September 2009 URL: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1367868,00.html CHICAGO -- In a keynote at the recent Red Hat Summit, Steve Rubinow, the New York Stock Exchange/Euronext executive vice president and chief technology officer, said processing trillions of transactions every month by itself isn't hard. The challenge is doing that while keeping up with customers' expectations for … Continue reading NYSE/Euronext powers ahead with Unix-to-Linux migration

NYSE to become fastest trader after deal with Juniper Networks

By Mike Harvey, Times Online  25 June 2009 URL: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6572925.ece The New York Stock Exchange has signed a deal with Juniper Networks aimed at making it the fastest trading system in the world. The companies said a new core computer network would support several billion daily transactions and quotes across various asset classes, with extremely low latency, … Continue reading NYSE to become fastest trader after deal with Juniper Networks

Euronext nears debut of Red Hat-based global trading platform

By Pam Derringer, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 09 December 2008 URL: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1341867,00.html# Despite the recent turmoil in the financial markets, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is on track to roll out its Universal Trading Platform in Europe late this year. The platform will create a single market exchange for equities, cash, derivatives and other commodities for the U.S., Europe and, potentially, … Continue reading Euronext nears debut of Red Hat-based global trading platform

Big stock exchanges now battling for microseconds

New view of transaction times may help change how IT thinks about speed By Patrick Thibodeau , Computerworld 30 July 2008 URL: www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111138 Computer systems, hardware and networking technologies have improved so much that two of the world's largest trading exchanges say they have begun measuring transaction times in microseconds. What is a microsecond? It's one-thousandth of the … Continue reading Big stock exchanges now battling for microseconds

NYSE Euronext Chooses Red Hat Solutions for Flexibility and Reliable, Fast-Paced Performance

URL: customers.press.redhat.com/2008/05/12/nyse/ Download this video: [Ogg Theora] Industry: Financial Trading Geography: Global Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry Migration Path: HP UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software: Red Hat … Continue reading NYSE Euronext Chooses Red Hat Solutions for Flexibility and Reliable, Fast-Paced Performance

PEOPLE

Steve Rubinow Think the lead technologist role at an exchange is ho-hum? By Maureen Callahan, Waters 1 January 2008 URL: http://www.watersonline.com/public/showPage.html?page=698591 Steve Rubinow, executive vice president and CIO of NYSE Euronext, the largest exchange on the planet, loved physical science growing up. "I expected my career would be that of a scientist. It turned out to be … Continue reading PEOPLE

Green Is the New Black

By Penny Crosman, Wall Street & Technology 26 April 2007 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201958 When we heard that Bank of America is installing -- brace yourselves, gentlemen -- waterless urinals in the "green" skyscraper it's building near Bryant Park for its investment banking operation, we realized that Wall Street is starting to take energy and water conservation seriously. Not … Continue reading Green Is the New Black

Wall Street’s Quest To Process Data At The Speed Of Light 

Financial firms use physical proximity to overcome the technical barriers of data latency By Richard Martin, Information Week 21 April 2007 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WKLLSLTGL0NVQQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=199200297&queryText=rubinow When the New York Stock Exchange celebrated its Euronext NV merger at the closing bell on April 4, the trading floor erupted in boos and jeers--and the ringing of cowbells. The cowbells came from … Continue reading Wall Street’s Quest To Process Data At The Speed Of Light