Wall Street is hungry for processing performance – and with good reason. A perfect storm of factors including an increase in trading automation, more exchanges, growing data needs and ever-expanding trade volumes are driving the perpetual pursuit of greater performance and lower latency.

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Results of a vConsolidate Benchmark performance test of the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 series, jointly performed by Intel and Virtual Iron, show a remarkable improvement in virtualization performance and scalability.

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In the financial services industry, automated trading is a race. For these financial services firms, one of the keys to maximising portfolio performance is reducing data latency. However with the volume of market data expected to continue to double each year, the latency through many installed market data systems is growing.

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The latest fasterCITY event in London on September 24 2007 moved focus from the business of trading, risk and analytics to the problems of the supporting infrastructure.

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