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.
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
In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the key features of virtualization—specifically VMware virtualization solutions—that help defend your datacenter against disaster. Virtualization offers hardware independence—a huge time saver in recovering from a disaster. In addition to this core capability, virtualization provides several other ways to protect your business from server downtime.
Today’s CIOs and business leaders from industry and govern-ments around the globe are challenged to stay competitive and meet business objectives. Aligning the enterprise IT model withthe business, controlling costs and keeping pace with the rapidrate of innovation are critical.
Server virtualization isn’t just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost, and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It’s not a question of “if” you should virtualize your servers;it’s a question of “when.” In this article, I outline five steps you should take to determine when to virtualize your
Small and midsize businesses are making virtualization one of the hottest trends in IT. The reasons? Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of technology, frees up time to make their businesses more responsive and improves their ability to rebound from disasters.
You can’t read the news on technology without engaging in speculation on what’s about to be announced, the significance of what it will mean, who will be affected, and how the marketplace will change. Since the technology is not just institutional but very personal for those of us in IT, we must try to sort
For the past few years, it seemed that mature on-premise antivirus, antispam, and Web defenses were making progress against the rising volume of malicious code aimed at businesses from the furthest corners of the Web. But a new generation of organized, well-funded, and financially-motivated online criminals are now launching attacks using social networks, exploiting consumer
In a companion paper, we show how Security as a Service (SaaS) protects small and midsize businesses from an unprecedented storm of malicious code, while escaping the tradeoff among security, performance, and cost that premise-based security forces on them. This paper looks at the business issues in SaaS: the value it unlocks, the costs—direct and
No business is an island. For every organisation, the ability to communicate effectively with employees, customers and business partners, and to provide its employees with access to information as and when they need it requires that it maintain an online presence and enable its employees to access information on the internet. However, the reality today