Companies Test Backup Plans, and Learn Some Lessons

By Michael Hickins, The Wall Street Journal 30 October 2012 URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204840504578089083861617790.html Natural disasters of the past few years taught companies the importance of good backup systems—but Hurricane Sandy showed many that there is still a lot to learn. The good news is that many businesses spared themselves a great deal of economic loss by keeping duplicates of … Continue reading Companies Test Backup Plans, and Learn Some Lessons →

Wall Street Firms Swing Contingency Plans Into Place

By Michael Hickins, CIO Journal 29 October 2012 URL: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/10/29/wall-street-firms-swing-contingency-plans-into-place/Financial firms in the New York area have put in motion contingency plans to keep operations running despite the devastation expected from Hurricane Sandy and closed financial markets Monday and Tuesday. For some, disaster preparedness is a matter of course. NYSE/Euronext has its primary data center, a 400,000 … Continue reading Wall Street Firms Swing Contingency Plans Into Place →

NYSE’s Data Fortress Powering the Financial Cloud

By Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge 30 June 2011 URL: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/30/nyses-data-fortress-powering-the-financial-cloud/ The long main hallway of the NYSE Euronext data center provides a sense of the immense scale of the 400,000 square foot facility in New Jersey. (Photo: Rich Miller) There are few data centers in the world that are more difficult to get into than the … Continue reading NYSE’s Data Fortress Powering the Financial Cloud →

The Data Center of the Future

By Melanie Rodier, Wall Street & Technology. 02 August 2010 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226300061 Lately, NYSE Euronext has been thinking big. "Big," as in the length of three football fields -- the size of its new data center, located in Mahwah, N.J. The 400,000-square-foot facility is larger than a World War II aircraft carrier and includes room to expand … Continue reading The Data Center of the Future →

Planet Money: High-Frequency Trading In Spotlight

By Chana Joffe-Walt, NPR 10 June 2010 URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127747626 Listen to the Story (05:40) Listen to the Podcast (21:56): The Million-Dollar Microsecond The New York Stock Exchange has opened a huge fast-trading hub in an unlikely place: Mahwah, N.J., a suburb about 35 miles from Wall Street. And trading firms are flocking there to get an edge … Continue reading Planet Money: High-Frequency Trading In Spotlight →

NYSE Helps Chop Off Fat-Finger Mistakes

By Anthony Malakian, Waters 19 May 2010 URL: http://www.waterstechnology.com/sell-side-technology/news/1649125/nyse-helps-chop-off-fat-finger-mistakes After nearly two weeks, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its findings on what transpired on May 6 between 2:40 p.m. and 3 p.m. and how to prevent a 1,000-point Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunge from happening again. As expected, the SEC is proposing … Continue reading NYSE Helps Chop Off Fat-Finger Mistakes →

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 →

NYSE CIO Sees Turbulent Times Impacting Technology Choices

By Steven Burke, ChannelWeb 02 Jun 2009 URL: http://www.crn.com/it-channel/217701351;jsessionid=KZ005RDEUZO1EQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN The turbulent economic times are impacting technology choices, with the uncertainty causing companies to accept alternatives they would not have looked at even one year ago. That was the assessment of Steve Rubinow, executive vice president and Co-Global Chief Information Officer of NYSE Euronext, which runs the NYSE and … Continue reading NYSE CIO Sees Turbulent Times Impacting Technology Choices →

“Always Up” IT: Beyond SLA’s

By CIO Talk Radio 6 August 2008 at 09:00 AM Central URL: www.ciotalkradio.com/archives.html Steven Rubinow Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, NYSE EURONEXT Steve Rubinow is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Steve was Chief Technology Officer of Archipelago Holdings, Inc, prior to its merger with the NYSE in … Continue reading “Always Up” IT: Beyond SLA’s →

Don’t Panic, but the Grid’s Going Down

By Penny Crosman, Wall Street & Technology 28 April 2007 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199202353 Summertime evokes the sounds of Beach Boys songs, the smell of suntan lotion - and the sudden darkness of a blackout. The dog days of August, when New Yorkers run their air conditioners full blast, mean peak demands on the city's energy grid. Many will … Continue reading Don’t Panic, but the Grid’s Going Down →