In an article published during the SIFMA Technology Management Conference in June, Wall Street & Technology magazine took a look at the trend of virtualization in the financial services sector. Radakrishna Hiremane, senior product marketing engineer at Intel, was interviewed for the article. The following is a brief excerpt:

Intel’s Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq), which are baked into the vendor’s 5400 “Harpertown” chipset and will be part of its other server chipsets going forward, offloads certain virtual machine software functions, such as the sorting of data, to hardware, speeding up the process, according to the company. Intel calls this hardware-assisted virtualization. Using VMDq on a 10gigE network interface card, Hiremane says, Intel has demonstrated a data throughput of 9.8 gigabytes per second.

Read the entire article online here: Wall Street Firms Increasingly Are Adopting Virtualization Technologies.

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