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Visa Europe – Processing payments with unprecedented agility and reliability

Visa Europe addressed the unique nature of the European market by building a new payment platform which houses tens of thousands of business rules governing payment clearing and settlement. An open business rules management system speeds time-to-market and gains cost efficiencies. The result is greater business agility and competitiveness for both Visa Europe and its

Why WebSphere Operational Decision Management? A Case for Business Users of Information Technology

To the business user of information systems, the relationship with the IT personnel who build and maintain those systems can be a contradictory experience: on the one hand, IT delivers significant productivity benefitsby automating routine tasks and improving access to information; on the other, the process of building automated systems often requires embedding business policies

Low-latency switches powerhigh-frequency trading

In the fast-paced world of High Frequency Trading (HFT),lucrative opportunities such as liquidity imbalances and short-term pricing inefficiencies might exist for only a few microseconds. Success depends on identifying and acting on those opportunities faster than competitors and that responsibility rests with the trading network. IBM System Networking products support the goal of faster trading.

VMReady: Virtual Machine-Aware Networking

Data centers are undergoing monumental paradigm shifts. Servers and more importantly the services they provide are expected to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by design. Enterprise data centers previously adapted to this change by following the rule that more is better and redundant configurations never hurt. However, as demand for

Overview Atos Origin builds a cost-effective hosting solution on the IBM Enterprise Linux Server platform

The Challenge To introduce new applications for major clients in the insurance and rail transport industries, Atos Origin needed be able to support large numbers of users and high transaction volumes. The company required a high-performance infrastructure that could offer 24×7 availability. The Solution Atos Origin decided to implement the new applications in Linux environments