Balancing Peformance and Simplicity for Wall Street

October 30, 2007

GigaSpaces has made a name for itself by creating a platform that focuses on simplicity while delivering the low latency and high availability that today’s financial services firms require. One such firm is Germany’s Commerzbank, who made the switch to GigaSpaces this year and already is looking for new applications to run on it:
“Latency has become such a critical issue that even you don’t necessarily have a better price, you might get the business if you’re able to trade a millisecond faster than the guy across the street.” Full Story

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About Rich
FlexRex began his life as a cartoon character I created a Sun Microsystems. As the world's first "fictional blogger," he appeared in numerous parody films that made fun of the whole work-from-home thing. Somewhere along the line, the Sun IT department adopted FlexRex as their spokesman in a half-dozen security awareness films for employees. So when I left Sun recently, I started FlexRex Communications, a Marketing company in Portland, Oregon.

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