Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is the editor-in-chief of Securities Technology Monitor.

Center Introduces Computing Cabinets with Chimneys
February 8, 2012 Nasdaq OMX Group upgrades power, speed at New Jersey data center

Machine-Readable Tweet Streams for Algos Arrive
November 17, 2011 Tweets have now been turned into formatted streams of market data

Two Industry Groups to Collaborate on Cloud Security
November 4, 2011 Open Data Center Alliance and Cloud Security Alliance said they would work together on the delivery of security techniques...

Eurex Moves Operations to Equinix Data Center
October 24, 2011 One of the major derivatives exchanges, Eurex will now be located in same data center as Xetra

Fidelity Information Services Tops Tech Vendor Rankings
October 12, 2011 Revenues for this year’s 100 largest financial technology firms grew to a combined $58.1 billion

Local Clouds to Get High-Performance Connections
August 30, 2011 New WMware data center provides storage service regardless of geography

Hurricane Watch: Backing Up Data, People, Communications
August 26, 2011 Tips on how to prepare and react when catastrophic weather threatens your data center and business operations

Where Time Stands Still
August 22, 2011 The massively and inexpensively-built Next Generation Data center in Wales is going after the 85% of computing that is not...

Data Centers Add High-Speed Connections, Cloud Services
July 19, 2011 Telehouse America said it will provide its customers with ultra low latency connections to Sidera Networks

Cracking the Code for Systemic Risk Data
July 14, 2011 Capitol Hill hearing Thursday addresses having the right data on hand; slide show digs into details of making that work

The Systems of Social Media
June 17, 2011 In many ways, social networks are broadcast media. An update, a tweet, a post that goes to a wide audience is …...

Put Reference Data into Cloud: DTCC
June 15, 2011 At SIFMA TECH 2011, CEO says move will lower costs and analysis of risks to nation’s financial system

8 Questions to Ask Before Heading into the Cloud
May 26, 2011 As established providers and tech start ups offer more in virtualization, prepare your team with this quick-hit analysis

RTS to Acquire Indian EMS Supplier
May 25, 2011 Proposed deal for First Futures Software Engineering would be first for German financial services provider

Riding the Herd, Before It Moves
May 24, 2011 For investors who think their opinion doesn’t matter, the aggregation of opinion and the mathematical analysis of the...

Holding Back the Cloud: Security, Security, Security
May 18, 2011 Recent Amazon outage underscore Wall Street's hesitation for deployment

Google Now Third Largest Maker of Servers
May 17, 2011 CIO Fried says search engine giant now ranks behind HP, IBM

Weigh In Now. Or Keep Your Peace.
May 10, 2011 SIFMA and a coalition of capital markets trade associations have set out a comprehensive set of requirements for establishing...

Measuring Milliseconds Through the Cloud
May 9, 2011 Ixia and Force10 roll out virtualization products built for speed

Too Much Systemic Risk Data Being Collected?
May 4, 2011 SIFMA conference talk puts spotlight on big data’s impact on financial services and the U.S. economy

CenturyLink to Acquire Data Center Operator Savvis
April 27, 2011 Fresh off Qwest acquisition, CenturyLink pitches $2.5 billion for owner of 31 data sites

BlackRock Gets Data Right To Give Models Might, in Aladdin
April 21, 2011 BlackRock has made a practice over the last two decades to get underlying data about its investments right-and making it a...

Giving a Single Name a Single Identity
April 19, 2011 Does the securities industry need something akin to the bar codes that now are inseparable from any consumer product sold at...

HP Prepping 'Intelligence Center' for Rules on Risk
April 14, 2011 Move would pit company against SAP, Oracle and other global players in the GRC software and services

Which NYSE Data Center Would Nasdaq Close?
April 1, 2011 Mahwah and Basildon facilities under review following merger

Data Centers Not Ready to Cope With Cyber Attacks
March 31, 2011 AFCOM report: More than 15 percent of the 358 data centers have no plan in place for data backup and recovery in the case of a...

SunGard Acquires Data Validation Service
March 30, 2011 ValueLink Information Services, a U.K. firm, would extend SunGard's financial services offerings

TIBCO Cuts Machine Messaging Speed
March 29, 2011 40 percent cut with FTL product holds transaction savings possibilities

Just Don't Call It a Cloud
March 22, 2011 If you want the economics and security of having your data hosted on servers you don't have to pay for directly or manage...

Monitoring Agent to Track of Financial Message Speeds
March 16, 2011 Solace Systems hardware, Arista Networks cloud combined on data collection and delivery

Project Managers in Demand, Survey Finds
March 9, 2011 More hired in last 3 years; time less expensive than other IT

Virtualization Doesn’t Match Overall Tech Spending Growth
March 8, 2011 Report: system integration overall top priority for securities firms

Organized Crime’s New Drug: Web Attacks on Financial Firms
March 2, 2011 Analysts: more than just hackers bilking institutions with mobile, social media attacks

1 Million Accounts Left Unprotected by Brokerage Firm
February 18, 2011 Lincoln Financial fined $600K for failure to protect customer information from public access

A 5% Tech Spending Increase? How About 20%
February 16, 2011 Cost pressures, needed upgrades have one expert expecting more IT money than most

NYSE Technologies Establishes Data Center Partnership
February 11, 2011 Part of its plan to roll out high-speed trading services in as many as 40 markets worldwide

Nasdaq’s Hack: Nothing to be Worried About. For Now.
February 9, 2011 Web facing application like the one used by the stock company are only one potential point of failure for capital markets,...

Tweet This: System to Track Leaks Via Social Media
February 8, 2011 SunGard says surveillance tool monitors sites regardless of device used to make post

Equinix to Launch "Enterprise-Class" Services in Cloud
January 19, 2011 Data center company signed agreement with OpSource for cloud delivery, managing

Australian Tech Company Picks Big Data Virtualization App
December 29, 2010 GigaSpaces already in use by Dow Jones, NYSE

Tech Spending to 'Remain Restrained' in 2011
December 8, 2010 Operational spending will increase by 2 percent, at the median, according to research firm Computer Economics

Information Mosaic, Bloomberg Streamline Corporate Actions
December 8, 2010 Companies tout reductions in risk, cost from joint effort

IBM Storage System Doubles Speed of Running Analytics
November 19, 2010 Architecture is designed to make that process more efficient by establishing a common file system and naming conventions...

Tech Spending to Pick Up in 2011. Thank Regulators.
November 18, 2010 Research firm Ovum predicts markets will pick up 4.5 percent in the coming year, which would be a return to 2008 levels

SpryWare Rolls Out Third Generation Feed Handler Suite
November 2, 2010 Chicago-based firm said embedding can bring down delivery to 10 millionths of a second

Prime Broker Services Head into Cloud
November 2, 2010 Run by two former Netik executives, The PrimeBroker Cloud will combine a transaction editor, messaging, data repository,...

CIOs Champion Technology More Than Customers
October 6, 2010 Diamond Management survey seems to indicate the CIO's role has been weakening precisely at a time it should be growing...

Driving Spending in Recession: Compliance Systems
September 30, 2010 Installing software and related systems that achieve compliance with new or expected financial and privacy regulations is...

Customer Data Released From Morgan Keegan Probe
September 30, 2010 Alabama's securities regulation agency "mistakenly released" the information, forcing the Memphis firm to notify some 18,500...

IBM Opens Fraud Analysis Center in Zurich
September 27, 2010 The center will focus on problems in the finance industry and the public sector, developing new forms of risk and fraud...

Off in the Clouds, Legally Speaking
September 24, 2010 You can put compliance into your computing cloud. But the cloud can't do the compliance for you

Microsoft Releases “Thousand-Node” HPC Server
September 20, 2010 Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the immediate availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, a high-performance server designed...

Credit Crisis in Part A Failure To Compute, Says Birnbaum
September 20, 2010 Many investment firms dealing in complex asset-backed securities did not have sufficient computing capacity to figure out the...

IBM Acquiring OpenPages for Compliance, Operational Risk Management
September 15, 2010 IBM said it plans to acquire OpenPages, a Waltham, Mass., firm that provides an integrated suite of software for managing...

Singapore to Create Center for Developing High-Tech Trading Skills
September 10, 2010 The Exchange, based in the country ranked second by the World Economic Forum in information technology competitiveness, said...

State Street Adds Stress Tests to Risk Analytics
August 19, 2010 State Street Corporation said it was adding economic stress tests and investment performance heat maps to its risk analytics...

Buffett Invests in Tech. Financial Tech.
August 18, 2010 Warren Buffett has found a technology firm he likes: Fiserv

Computing Cloud Seen as Answer for Consolidated Audit Trail
August 11, 2010 A supplier of risk management software to bulge bracket firms on Wall Street has proposed that the SEC rely on real-time data...

STAC Releases Benchmark for Measuring Market Data Handling
June 22, 2010 The Securities Technology Analysis Center created a common method of measuring the performance of software products that...

Levinson & Sons Launches Program For Analyzing Trades
June 16, 2010 SJ Levinson & Sons launched a set of predictive analytics that will allow traders to improve returns and benchmark their results

Real-Time Data Warehouse Launched
May 26, 2010 A Morningstar subsidiary said it is introducing a "real-time" data warehouse

“Ad Hoc Analysis” Lacking in Business Intelligence Systems
May 12, 2010 The ability to ask intelligent questions of business intelligence systems is limited by the highly structured and complex...

Digital Realty Trust to Open Data Center Space in 5 Markets
April 16, 2010 Digital Realty Trust said it plans to open 170,000 square feet of data center space in the United States and the United...

Volcanic Ash Should Not Shut Data Centers on Iceland
April 15, 2010 The drift of ash spewing out of a volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted grounded air travel in and out of the United...

Cloud Computing Going into the Sky
April 12, 2010 A South African company is introducing a service using a satellite-based router that will actually put cloud computing in ......

Morgan Stanley: CIO Spending to Swing Up 5 Percent in 2010
April 9, 2010 A Morgan Stanley Research survey of 150 executives released Thursday show they expect to spend 5 percent more on information...

'Superspend' on Financial Data Centers 'Dysfunctional'
March 23, 2010 Can it be? Trading firms and marketplace operators are wasting money on the big "monolithic" data centers they're building, as...

SEC Pursuing Creation of IT Forensic Lab
March 18, 2010 The SEC intends establish of a forensics lab, accompanied by enhanced data and trading analytics

“Superspend” on Data Centers “Dysfunctional”
March 16, 2010 Can it be? Trading firms and marketplace operators are wasting money on the big “monolithic” data centers...

Linux: Big With the Bulge Brackets
March 12, 2010 The open-source software Linux has become by far the most-widely used operating system among the largest firms on Wall Street

Financial Crime Fighting: "All Driven By the Data"
March 3, 2010 Comprehensive collection of consistent data around the world is what makes financial crime-fighting possible

Microsoft GM: Virtualization Now About Portability
February 26, 2010 Virtualization of computing resources is no longer just about saving costs by consolidating servers, applications and...

Facing Up to Social Networking
February 23, 2010 Social networking is relevant “here and now” and critical to your future

IBM Unveils Systems For Real-Time Financial Analysis
February 9, 2010 IBM announced a new round of processors and servers designed to handle specialized applications

NYSE Technologies Rolls Out Custom Filtering of IOI and Trade Data
January 15, 2010 The technology arm of NYSE Euronext launched a new class of service that will help institutional traders filter and prioritize...

Mind Over Model
December 2, 2009 You can't blame the model. No matter what happens with the rest of this recession, let's stop blaming it on runaway quantum...

Interactive Data Acquires Data and Tools from Dow Jones
November 25, 2009 Interactive Data Corporation said Tuesday it signed an agreement to acquire data and electronic tools belonging to Dow Jones &...

Bloomberg Opens Up
November 20, 2009 Now, rather quietly, Bloomberg LLP is giving away the keys to navigating, retrieving and using information from its data...

All the Data, All the Time
November 3, 2009 Electronics, surprise, keep getting cheaper. A hard drive that stores a trillion numbers and slips into a briefcase costs...

FINRA Calls for Market Surveillance by “Unified Single Regulator”
October 29, 2009 The chairman of FINRA called for the creation of a single repository of data on all trades on all markets so that the...

Recovery is a "Mixed Picture" According to Geithner
October 28, 2009 U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the U.S. economy is 'only at the earliest stage of recovery, one year after the...

'Ultra-Low Latency' Market Data Feed Set Up as Hosted Service
October 20, 2009 Street Response Laboratories said Monday it is launching a hosted version of its its ultra-low latency market data feed

SunGard Launches ‘Private Cloud’ Service in U.K.
October 14, 2009 A business unit of SunGard Data Systems in Europe has rolled out a series of “private cloud” services that promotes...

BofA’s Birnbaum: Memory Matters to Program in Parallel
September 15, 2009 If you’re going to speed up the processing of bond, stock or other securities transactions by processing different parts...

Rewarding Good Management, When Always Confronting Risk
September 9, 2009 Risk is the hottest topic in the compensation committee meetings in the boardroom in the current environment

Tibco Acquires DataSynapse for $28 Million
August 25, 2009 Tibco Software, a provider of 'infrastructure' software for financial services firms, said Monday that it acquired DataSynapse...

The Key Phases of Virtualization
June 19, 2009 The conversion of physical servers, data storage devices and desktop computers into virtual machines is prompting a sea change...