NASDAQ Pricing App To Be Deployed on Sun x64 and SPARC
As much as 70% of NASDAQ daily trades utilize the the BRASS PriceServer. The application is now supported on both Solaris SPARC (Shared ASP) and x64 for Opteron (Customer Co-Location). In addition, the BRASS Compliance application will maintain a 5-year customer searchable history of NASDAQ pricing information. All these applications are scheduled for deployment in July 2006. The production configuration will initially consist of multiple T2000's with 2 X 6920 Storage Systems (8 TB to start, eventually expanding to ~40 TB). The backup of the archive data will be achieved with the StorageTek Virtual Tape Library and StorageTek L700 Tape Library devices.

Making News at Reuters one million market data updates per second. Important products from Reuters’ next generation version of Market Data System (RMDS) and Reuters Foundation APIs product suites have been ported by MDE and successfully released by Reuters on Solaris 10 x86 (32bit). With the latest RMDS 6.0 on Solaris, it was publicly noted that "Sun has exceeded the one million market data updates per second benchmark on Reuters RMDS 6.0." According to Michael Parlapiano, executive vice president of Enterprise Information Management Solutions, Reuters: "Companies utilizing RMDS 6.0 are ensured lower latency, overall greater scalability and dramatically improved performance with the Solaris 10 OS as their operating system choice."
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