Category Archives: Ultra Messaging
Streaming Data Across The WAN – Important Design Considerations
Many companies today must send streaming data across the globe, quickly, which often means use of a shared resource: a WAN. Bandwidth for most WANs is usually restricted to something like 100Mb/sec, or even 10Mb/sec, which is often much slower than the high-speed LANs connected to either side of the WAN. This is especially true in the capital markets where ultra low latency messaging is key.
A link speed mismatch like this can present a problem. Say you’re running a 10Gb Ethernet LAN in New York, and sending data to London and Singapore over a 100Mb WAN link. While your streaming market data has an aggregate rate well below 100Mb, the spikes are many multiples of that aggregate rate. Those spikes are where your problems can begin. (more…)
Anatomy Of A New Swaps Infrastructure
A post from the TABB Group
For the biggest swaps dealers, creation of their new OTC derivatives infrastructure will include rebuilding existing platforms, buying key elements from technology providers, leveraging technology already in place in other asset classes and, of course, building new platforms from scratch. This is not a buy-versus-build decision—it’s a careful balancing act of process and technology decisions to create a best-of-breed infrastructure. (more…)
Informatica Ultra Messaging Software Supports Capital Markets Reforms
As a leader in providing enterprise software to the capital markets industry, Informatica is well aware of the technological impact of current financial reforms on many segments of that industry. To help its customers fully understand this impact, Informatica commissioned a study by the TABB Group to investigate the ramifications of key new regulations in the United States and Europe on company IT infrastructures, with a specific focus on the OTC derivatives market (also known as the swaps market).
The findings of this study have been published in a TABB Group report entitled “Technology and Financial Reform: Data, Derivatives and Decision Making”, which highlights the critical requirement for a robust messaging architecture within the required new IT infrastructure. (more…)
Addressing Data Volume Growth With Better Efficiency
Friday August 5, 2011 set new records for trading volume around the world. According to this FT.com story: “The amount of data generated by the day’s trading in US futures and equities alone saw over 130m trades on Friday, generating 950 gigabytes of data, according to Nanex, a market data provider.” In London, “some exchanges with older technology could not cope”. And so Big Data strikes again.
But market data volume has been exploding for months, even years. This is just one more chapter in a long story, illustrating the types of problems that a business could encounter if they neglect their technical infrastructure in the face of data volume growth. (more…)
Top 5 Benefits For Making Big Data Small
Lean Data Management is a new approach to managing your data growth. It uses the “Lean” concept that originated with Toyota car manufacturing in the 1990’s. The “Lean” concept is based on maximizing efficiency, eliminating waste and providing more value to the customer. (See Informatica’s lean integration solutions as well as John Schmidt’s 10Weeks to Lean Integration blog series.)
As technology has evolved, industries consolidated, and corporations have grown, these organizations are faced with explosive data volumes called “Big Data”. Big Data is all the different types of data that are supported by IT organizations. Applying the “Lean” concept to managing application data will help you reduce the size of your Big Data by archiving live production databases, subsetting non-production databases and archiving/retiring legacy and redundant applications. Informatica’s Lean Data Management approach to reducing Big Data is an effective, comprehensive approach to addressing the challenges created by Big Data. It’s time to Make Big Data Small with Lean Data Management.
Here are the top 5 benefits for Making Big Data Small: (more…)
SIFMA 2011 Wrap-Up
Upon reflection after returning with the rest of the Ultra Messaging® team from the recently-concluded SIFMA 2011 Financial Services Technology Expo, these memories came flooding back . . .
- Grow your business, not your infrastructure – We shared the latest news about our ultra low latency messaging products and how they help a business grow, including helping with Big Data problems and Risk and Compliance.
- Latest and greatest – Along with EMC and Kaazing, we shared the latest about our synergistic technologies. Watch this Kaazing video to hear Mike Pickett, VP of Product Marketing for Ultra Messaging, discuss the synergies with Kaazing WebSockets and Ultra Messaging for scaling streaming message data out to mobile devices and other web applications. (more…)
What Is The Best Messaging Transport? All Of Them!
Software messaging uses transport protocols (such as TCP/IP) to move data from one machine to another or from one process to another process on the same machine.
Over the last 10 years or more, the array of transport protocols has evolved from a variety of factors, including the relentless need for speed and throughput, particularly with the growth of High Frequency Trading (HFT) that drives the low-latency messaging market.
In addition to those protocol changes, each transport protocol has inherent advantages and disadvantages. And then on top of that, the design of the message software itself has its own advantages and disadvantages, too. Oh, one more thing: competing network technologies like InfiniBand and emerging standards like 10GigE. (more…)
A-Team Low Latency Event: Big Data In Action
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the A-Team Group Low Latency Event in New York City where as you would expect, the talk was about the continued push for lower and lower latency but also the massive growth of data. If there’s ever an example of Big Data in action, Capital Market are it!
Jitesh Ghai from the Ultra Messaging Business Unit participated in panel discussion on market data and how enterprises are dealing with the incredible volumes. He highlighted how some of our customers have gained massive performance improvements and lower latency while reducing hardware infrastructure. They did this by combining marketing data hardware solutions with Ultra Messaging software for cross enterprise distribution. (more…)
Top Five Ways to Minimize Software Messaging Latency
Messaging Bytes: number two in a series of posts discussing performance with Low Latency Messaging. The series is brought to you by Ultra Messaging – see the entire series at the Messaging Bytes Archive.
Trading applications for financial securities in the capital markets are measured by how fast they can execute trades. And time is money, in the most literal sense.
Even being 1 microsecond (1,000,000/sec) too slow is basically the same as never running the race at all, because the fastest executing trade often causes slower executing trades to be rejected, since the price is no longer available. Win or go home, essentially. (more…)
Guaranteed Messaging: It’s Not Just for Brokers Using Store-and-Forward Any More!
Guaranteed Messaging – or persistent messaging – is a popular feature of messaging applications that provides both high-performance and reliable delivery of streaming messages, plus the ability to store the messages for later use, often for failover or late-starting consumers.
To implement guaranteed messaging, some messaging vendors employ a messaging broker and a store-and-forward messaging model, to ensure that the message is persisted on a hard disk before sending along to consumers. This model simplifies late join and loss recovery, since all messages flow through one central server.
This simplicity carries a price tag, however, and if you are brave enough to look at that price tag, you will see “slower performance, a single point of failure, and for resilience, you have to buy expensive HA or SAN hardware”.
Ultra Messaging® changed all that in 2007 with the revolutionary Parallel Persistence® feature in Ultra Messaging Persistence Edition (UMP).
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