Capital Markets

Sun Microsystems and Intel Break Million-Messages-per Second Barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System
Demand for low-latency, high-speed delivery continues to drive technology enhancements for financial institutions.

TransactTools Enabling Faster High-Volume Electronic Trading using Sun Technology
TransactTools profiles its TCM5 server running on a Sun Fire V20z server with Solaris 10 and dual AMD Opteron processors operating at 2.2GHz.

StockCharts.com Provides Investment Information Faster, Manages Infrastructure More Easily with Sun Blade Modular System
Looking to reduce complexity while increasing processing speed, StockCharts.com’s IT team migrated its Java-based chart creation application to the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System with AMD Opteron processors. As a result, this financial analysis has more than doubled it speed and capacity in producing stock charts for its client. There are also 65% fewer blade servers for its administrators to manage.

Using Sun TechnologyCanadian Depository for Securities Saves CAD$900,000 & Strengthens Disaster Recovery Capability using Sun Technology
The Canadian Depository for Securities needed to more efficiently replicate critical financial data and increase its storage network bandwidth without breaking the bank.

Low Latency 5 Nine's Trading: Sun's Value Proposition for Market Data
Sun technologies, specifically Solaris 10, provide immediate and visible benefits to customers re-architecting their systems for low latency 99.999% uptime trading. This paper discusses the advantages of Solaris 10 (versus Linux) in the context of creating an optimized market data system.

Data sheet: Sun Identity Management for Financial Services
Sun identity management for financial services streamlines and simplifies the process of managing user identities across all varieties of computing infrastructures and application environments.

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RMDS Server Consolidation with Solaris 10 Containers
The continued growth in the volume of market data requires an ever increasing market data infrastructure. Customers are looking to reduce the TCO of the operational environment by exploiting standardized deployment platforms. These platforms are likely to be deployed using virtualization techniques to increase their utilization.

Low Latency - Eliminating Application Jitter with Solaris
The proliferation of algorithmic trading is driving the focus on reducing, even eliminating, jitter, thus allowing exploitation of arbitrage opportunities in a predictable fashion. This paper examines Sun's well defined methodology for eliminating jitter.

KYC and MiFID - Shared Opportunities
MiFID will reshape the wholesale and investment banking landscape and how they inter-react with the buy-side and private clients. Sun has already been working with its partners edge IPK, Mobius, and Morse on the KYC Alliance and this alliance is now being extended to cover the intersection of KYC and MiFID.

Extreme FX Transaction Performance - Sun and Wall Street Systems
The synergy of Sun systems, the Solaris 10 operating system and Wallstreet FX software brings innovative advancements to the financial services industry.

Open MiFID Alliance - Pan-European Alliance Enables Firms To Comply With New Regulatory Requirements
The Open MiFID Alliance (OMA) is an alliance of six major technology vendors that provide solutions, which together, can deliver end-to-end MiFID solutions. The Alliance was initiated by Sun Microsystems and is jointly chaired by Sun and Avitis, a systems integrator based in Paris.

Market Data
The financial markets in 2007 are facing an unprecedented number of market wrenching challenges. Two of the key challenges are the continued growth of algorithmic trading and the impending enactment of trading regulations in both the U.S. and EU.