SIFMA's Data Date-Book: Your Market Data Guide to SIFMA 2011

Just as low-latency has become crucial for financial firms looking to get into and out of positions, data professionals also value latency when seeking out those technologies. So to help you navigate the SIFMA Expo with as few delays as possible, Inside Market Data presents a definitive guide of vendors to visit, along with details of grab-worthy giveaways and where to find the best cocktails.

Accelize (Booth #1841)
Accelize is a global provider of FPGA computing cards and systems for co-processing and high-performance computing applications, aimed at accelerating financial trading platforms. With dual 10-Gigabit/1Gb Ethernet links and less than 150 nanoseconds latency full hardware-integrated TOE, Accelize’s new XP4S530LP-20G is specifically designed for high-frequency trading, feed handling, and algorithmic trading applications looking for the lowest-latency, highest-performance FPGA-based computing. Accelize FPGA accelerators are delivered with a comprehensive software environment that enables non-FPGA-designers to take full advantage of the FPGA capabilities.
www.accelize.com

Acquire Media (Booth #1400)
Acquire Media, a provider of news aggregation and real-time distribution for financial service organizations, will be exhibiting its NewsEdge V8 and NewsEdge TIGER services at the SIFMA Financial Services Technology Expo. Stop by Acquire’s booth to learn more about its NewsEdge services and get access to top newswires tagged specifically for traders with ultra-low latency, sink a hole in one on its Putting Challenge to win a prize and, starting at 4pm on Tuesday and Wednesday during the show, join the vendor for an Arnold Palmer cocktail at “The Tiger’s Den” (Booth #1400).
www.acquiremedia.com.

Activ Financial (Booth #1313)
Activ Financial is a global full-service market data provider specializing in the delivery of ultra-low-latency, high-availability market data. Activ provides end-to-end solutions including direct feed technologies, hardware-accelerated feed solutions, global consolidated datafeeds, ticker plants, enterprise solutions and tick/news databases, all combined with a large-scale distribution and fan-out technologies. Visit Activ at Booth #1313 to speak to company representatives about customer case studies and to get information about their global network of 120 feed handlers and nearly 20 datacenters across five continents.
www.activfinancial.com

Adva Optical Networking (Booth #1517)
www.advaoptical.com

AMAX Information Technologies (Booth #1508)
www.amax.com

Anova Technologies (Booth #1432A)
www.anova-tech.com

BGCantor Market Data (Booth #100)
www.bgcantor.com

CarryQuote (Booth #1520)
CarryQuote is an award-winning mobile financial information solution provider, and the pioneer of real-time “snapshot” market data. CarryQuote’s solutions enable you to access real-time data from every major global exchange, covering all asset classes and over 95 percent of the world’s markets, at a fraction of the cost of traditional data suppliers. Compatible with all major mobile platforms, its SaaS-based solution allows you to deliver multimedia research, live CNBC TV, news, and video to virtually any device, quickly and with no significant IT investment. CarryQuote is headquartered in Switzerland with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and China.
www.carryquote.com

CDW (Booth #1754)
www.cdw.com

Cervalis (Booth #1842)
www.cervalis.com

Ciena (Booth #1825)
Ciena Corporation enables reliable, secure connectivity to make networks a truly strategic business asset. With expertise in optical and Ethernet networking, Ciena provides platforms that enable rapid, predictable provisioning and high performance to reduce risk and ensure applications and transactions are handled with the highest availability and the lowest latency. Ciena serves numerous institutions in the global financial services industry, transforming their networks to simply and reliably adapt to the business needs of high-value applications such as datacenter connectivity, WAN consolidation, business continuity, disaster recovery and high-frequency trading.
www.ciena.com

Cisco (Booth # 2515)
Cisco will be showcasing its high-performance trading fabric optimized for the financial markets industry. By enabling the entire lifecycle of an automated trade, as opposed to addressing niche areas, Cisco provides a complete portfolio that delivers innovation at each step of an automated trade. With these innovations, financial firms gain peak performance with an integrated architecture that includes features and capabilities designed to ensure ongoing performance as the market evolves. Cisco is also hosting a solution center session on Tuesday, June 14 at 1:30pm.
www.cisco.com

CodeStreet (Booth #1524)
CodeStreet will be showcasing its suite of products for empowering fixed income sales and trading, which enhance the traditional salesperson-driven broker-dealer business model and help drive revenues on the trading desk. TeamWork helps traders and salespeople manage inquiries and situations and find opportunities for more trades; CRM+ helps desk managers oversee their business; Market Data Integrator helps analysts distribute their research, and e-commerce distribute their offerings and prices; ReplayService and Market Data Works help IT to build and test systems more efficiently. This year, CodeStreet will introduce ReplayService for IBM Websphere MQ, Eurobond support within the Teamwork platform, the ability to publish to both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters within Market Data Integrator and the latest release of ReplayService for Thomson Reuters market data that includes support for the Thomson Reuters Open Message Model (OMM) and Thomson Reuters Tick History.
www.codestreet.com

Cogent Consulting/ConvergEx Group (Booth #1821A)
www.cogentconsulting.com

Copp Clark (Booth #1309)
www.coppclark.com

Correlix (Booth #1515)
www.correlix.com

Corvil (Booth #1760)
Corvil will be demonstrating the latest release of the CorvilNet Latency Management Platform. Highlights include: Customizable Live Dashboards with real-time visibility of market data quality, application and network latency, and order execution performance across multiple venues; Latency Navigator, providing custom dashboard and topology views per department, depicting hop-by-hop trade order execution and market data latency performance; Distributed Time Synchronization to measure latency to microsecond accuracy between CorvilNet appliances without external synchronization; and an extensive library of real-time decoders for native trading protocols and market data feeds across most major markets.
www.corvil.com

DealHub (Booth #1433)
DealHub offers a series of multi-asset solutions covering e-trading, front, middle and back-office as well as compliance. External sources supported by DealHub include market data providers Reuters, Icap/EBS, Bloomberg, as well as multi-bank and single-bank platforms. DealHub will showcase its comprehensive solutions for FX eCommerce, eFX price distribution and liquidity sourcing, STP, integration, connectivity and MIS. DealHub can support a range of business models including interbank, prime brokerage, eCommerce, B2B and B2C, and is used globally by most the top FX dealing banks, including UBS, JP Morgan, HSBC and Deutsche Bank.
www.dealhub.com

Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics (Booth #1314)
This year, Deutsche Börse is showcasing its data products for speed-sensitive traders—AlphaFlash, which delivers the fastest machine-readable news, and MNI Monitor’s web-based, mobile-friendly economic data display. Other highlights include the new InsightMed service, which provides market participants unique access to potentially market moving pharmaceutical news, evaluated by physicians, as well as Eurex ICAP Swap Spreads, Deutsche Börse’s new benchmark product for euro yield spreads. Visitors to the booth can test their skills in a high-tech racing simulator and participate in a raffle to win iTunes and Apple gift cards with a total value of $2,000.
www.deutsche-boerse.com

Endace (Booth #1011)
Throughout the show, Endace will hold a series of demonstrations designed to help traders to understand the real business benefits of highly accurate packet capture. The team will demonstrate how Endace systems can be used to: capture and replay trading data to stress test systems and develop new trading strategies; analyze microbursts and other trading anomalies; measure network latency and reduce opex costs through co-hosting applications. At 3pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, join the Endace team for a tasting of New Zealand wines.
www.endace.com

Exegy (Booth #1516)
Exegy processes and normalizes low-latency direct market data feeds in a single hardware accelerated appliance. The Exegy Ticker Plant is co-managed in partnership with our customers for the best possible trading experience, and now has feed handlers for around 100 feeds. The new Exegy Edge Cache offers many new capabilities, including much greater fanout and scale so that low-latency direct feeds can reach hundreds of client systems.
www.exegy.com.

FiberMedia Group (Booth #1863)
FiberMedia Group will showcase its new “Managed Data Center-as-a-Service” offering, a fully managed infrastructure solution that bundles network management and support for on-demand cloud solutions, encompassing proven solutions for cloud computing, data protection, device monitoring and management, remote hands, business continuity, managed network solutions and more. FiberMedia will also be promoting its IT infrastructure support solutions and robust datacenter capabilities, including: more than 90,000 square feet of available, scalable co-location space to; a network of five datacenters in the New York Metro area for co-location and disaster recovery; carrier-neutral network connectivity and close access to all major financial exchanges; its private, high-speed datacenter network; more than 30 Megawatts of power from diverse power grids; and customized managed services solutions (remote hands, device monitoring and management, data storage and backup).
www.fibermedia.net

Fidessa (Booth #2405)
Fidessa provides trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community. Fidessa’s solutions manage the entire investment lifecycle, improving productivity, competitiveness and efficiency, while reducing your costs and your risk. At SIFMA, Fidessa will showcase its buy-side workstation and execution cost analysis solution, as well as its new whitepaper Building Profit from Analytics. The vendor will also demo solutions including its order management solution, market data, the Fidessa Fragmentation Index and Fragulator. Stop by for a chance to win a Blackberry Playbook.
www.fidessa.com

Fincad (Booth #1756)
www.fincad.com

FIX Protocol Limited (Booth #1305)
FPL is a non-profit, global industry organization that focuses on supporting the evolving business needs of the trading community by developing and promoting standards to enable firms to optimize efficiencies and reduce costs. Visit the FPL booth to learn about FPL’s latest developments including the creation of a benchmark to facilitate the standardization of latency measurement, the creation of a new standard to support high-frequency trading, FPL’s work with regulators and the release of new risk management guidelines plus much more.
www.fixprotocol.org

Fixnetix (Booth #1611)
Fixnetix provides ultra-low-latency data, trading and hosting solutions for multiple asset classes including equities, options, futures, bonds, commodities and FX. The company analyzes all parts of the technology chain and employs best industry practices as a vendor of record and network service provider for most exchanges in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Fixnetix’s range of products and solutions includes iX-Direct and iX Max for ultra-low-latency market data, IX-Trade for market execution, @Source Hosting for co-location, IX-Eye for ultra-low-latency real-time risk and execution command and control, and iX-eCute for ultra-low-latency trading. The vendor will provide morning snacks and coffee and afternoon drinks on Tuesday, and will offer two public product showings per day in the Midtown Suite.
www.fixnetix.com

Haver Analytics (Booth #1836)
Haver Analytics, a provider of time-series data for the global strategy and research community, maintains more than 200 databases from over 1,200 government and private sources, and makes up-to-the-minute data for its databases available through its advanced DLXR software, optimized for analyzing the data and integrating the databases. Haver also offers web delivery of data with HaverSelect providing broad access to data for projects or infrequent one-time requests.
www.haver.com

Hibernia Atlantic (Booth #1855)
Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN) is the financial exchange connectivity division of transatlantic, high-bandwidth, connectivity provider Hibernia Atlantic. Built on over 24,000 kilometers of network, GFN connects the world’s largest exchange datacenters to direct participants through secure and diverse dedicated, high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency Ethernet and optical-level service from 1-GigE, 10-GigE, LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. GFN offers over 120 points of presence (PoPs) into key market centers in the US and Canada, UK, Ireland and mainland Europe, and the Pacific Rim, and is currently building Project Express, the lowest-latency connectivity from New York to London with sub 60 millisecond roundtrip delay.
www.hiberniagfn.com

Hudson Fiber Network (Booth #1857)
Headquartered in Paramus, NJ, Hudson Fiber Network is a provider of high-bandwidth, low-latency networking solutions that increase network efficiency, manage a multi-carrier environment and lower overall networking spend. The company operates a fiber network, which delivers key IP and network services in and among the top US metropolitan markets and around the globe. Its suite of services includes basic Internet connectivity (T1 through 100 Gigabit) and Gigabit Ethernet and Wave networks, providing clients with scalability and global reach. HFN will be giving away Apple iPads through a sticker promotion: visit the HFN booth and get an HFN sticker/button, wear it for 2 days (June 14-15), and if you are spotted on either day by an HFN representative, you could win an iPad.
www.hudsonfiber.com

IBM (Booth #2213)
www.ibm.com

Informatica (Booth #1111)
Low-latency messaging and integration provider Informatica invites SIFMA attendees to visit its booth to hear the latest about integrations with leading market data feed handlers; low-latency advancements through IPC and kernel bypass capabilities; gateway enhancements which enable low-latency/wire speed persistence over wide area networks to support global enterprise deployments; and the vendor’s Ultra Messaging Management station, which makes administration and configuration even easier. Todd Montgomery, one of the principle designers of Informatica’s messaging products will be available to answer architectural questions, explore ideas and get feedback and input into new releases. Stop by the booth for a chance to win an iPad.
www.informatica.com

Information Builders (Booth #1414)
www.ibi.com

InfoTech Solutions for Business (Booth #1744)
www.infotechfb.com

InterSystems (Booth #2301)
www.intersystems.com

Ipreo (Booth #1211)
Ipreo will be showcasing its BD Suite of investor prospecting and CRM applications, all of which leverage the industry-leading Bigdough database of institutional contacts and profiles. Highlights include: BD Embedded, which allows contacts data and prospecting functionality to be seamlessly integrated in any CRM platform, including Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM; Profile and Pitch Builder applications that automate and enhance the pitch-book building process; and the launch of a new product, BD/LinkedIn Integration, which offers clients direct, one-click access to their LinkedIn network, including profiles of people and companies, as well as associated relational information and communication tools.
www.ipreo.com

Jordan & Jordan (Booth #1301)
Learn how Jordan & Jordan’s knowledge of the financial markets, technology, industry best practices, and regulation is leveraged across four practices: Market data services, management consulting, technology, and industry solutions (FIF, RIXML). With expertise in market data feed integration, market data reporting and audits, enterprise data management, exchange compliance, FIXatdl, market data capacity planning, trade compliance/reporting, 15C3-5, market access, risk management and cost basis, J&J’s services reach all segments of the industry. See a demo of the DART Data Management System, J&J’s joint offering with NYSE Technologies, which helps firms efficiently manage and reduce their market data spend.
www.jandj.com

Lightower Fiber Networks (Booth #1856)
Lightower owns and operates a robust, dense, and reliable all-fiber network comprising over 6,100 route miles of fiber and serving over 2,400 buildings, which provides the financial services and securities industry with fiber-based, low-latency and ultra-low-latency networking solutions between commercial buildings and all regional financial exchanges and interconnection facilities in the New York City and New Jersey region. Lightower’s complete suite of all-fiber, custom solutions include Ethernet, wavelengths, dark fiber, dedicated Internet access, SONET, and co-location. For more information, call 888-LT-FIBER.
www.lightower.com

MarketAxess (Booth #1850)
Learn more about BondTicker, MarketAxess’ source of corporate bond market data, which combines FINRA Trace disseminated pricing with MarketAxess’ unique trade data to provide actionable executable historical and real-time pricing. Pricing and analytics are available for US high-grade, high-yield, emerging market, agency, eurobond and other hard-to-price securities such as structured products and 144a bonds. Users can set up alerts and watchlists, as well as search from the corporate bond inventory to easily track and receive the most accurate updates in real time, and can also create custom reports to monitor bond activity.
www.marketaxess.com

MarkLogic (Booth #1427)
www.marklogic.com

MDSL (Booth #1770)
Fresh from winning the “Best Supporting Service Provider” category at this year’s IMD Awards, MDSL will be showing the latest version of its market data software, MDSL Market Data Manager (MDM) 3.0. Visitors looking to benefit from MDM 3.0’s advanced features but who lack the internal resources to manage it themselves can learn about MDSL’s consultancy service, MDSL Market Data eXpert. Experts will also be on hand to show MDSL’s award-winning telecom expense solution, MDSL Telecom Expense Manager. Back by popular request is MDSL’s bottled Hot Sauce, along with tins of MDSL mints to cool your tongue afterwards!
www.mdsl.com

Mellanox Technologies (Booth #1510)
www.mellanox.com

Morningstar (Booth #1405)
www.morningstar.com

Nasdaq OMX (Booth #1213)
Nasdaq OMX Group is the world’s largest exchange company, listing more than 3,500 companies and delivering trading and exchange technology across six continents. Nasdaq OMX Global Data Products, led by the flagship Nasdaq TotalView, provides world-class transparency and speed to investors worldwide. Global Data Products is constantly striving to bring new data sets to traders, including Nasdaq Basic, a low-cost alternative to Level 1 data and Nasdaq Data-On-Demand (2011 IMD Awards winner for “Most Innovative Market Data Project”), delivering specific historical Level 1 data via the cloud for back testing and analysis. Stop by Booth #1213 to meet the team and enter to win an Apple TV and iTunes gift card.
www.nasdaqomxtrader.com

NetScout Systems (Booth #2114)
www.netscout.com

NTT Communications (Booth #1817)
www.ntta.com

Numerix (Booth #2200)
Numerix, along with partners Microsoft, Sybase, and Eikos Partners, will showcase: its library of pricing and analytics models for OTC derivatives and structured products; the new “Front” to the “Front-office” presented by Eikos and powered by Numerix; Grid-powered visualization and aggregation of trades, positions and risk; along with new Numerix solutions for pricing/valuation, market risk and counterparty risk (CVA & PFE). Numerix will also host a series of breakout sessions open to all Expo attendees, covering “Risk Management and IT Best Practices: Centralize Portfolio Pricing Enterprise-wide to Mitigate Risk and Improve Efficiency” (Tues, June 14, 2pm), “IT Best Practices: Valuation and Risk Management Approaches for OTC Derivatives and Structured Products” (Weds, June 15, 8:30am), and will participate in the “Risk Management Thought Leaders Panel: Improving Risk Management and Transparency for Structured Products, Exchange-Traded and OTC Derivatives through Effective Data Management and Innovative Analytic Models” in the general conference session (Weds, June 15, 3:15pm).
www.numerix.com

NYSE Technologies (Booth #1438)
NYSE Technologies will be showcasing its new Capital Markets Community Platform, which utilizes NYSE Technologies’ global connectivity and comprehensive product portfolio to offer customers the benefits of on-demand, self-provisioned computing power with the flexibility, agility and cost savings of a cloud environment. The vendor will also be showing: Data Fabric MultiVerb, a next-generation middleware that offers greatly enhanced performance and scalability, single-digit microsecond transport latency and breakthrough, and hardware-accelerated, market data multicast offload processing; its new Appia Business Center Feature user interface for its Appia FIX Engine, including a centralized database with smart configuration management, expedited connectivity and trading capabilities, plus business intelligence tools to easily add rules, routing and message transformation; and Tradescope V5, the latest version of its FIX monitoring and management tool, re-designed with enhancements to deliver a richer interface and a more efficient means to manage FIX infrastructures.
www.nyse.com/technologies

OneMarketData (Booth #1428)
CEP, tick data management and analytics solutions provider OneMarketData’s flagship OneTick product is a comprehensive business solution designed to fully address the market’s need for intraday data collection, archiving, retrieval and analytics. Visit OneMarketData at Booth #1428, where the team will be available to discuss new and recent client deployments, and an upcoming new product launch.
www.onetick.com

Optimum Lightpath (Booth #1417)
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, provides advanced Ethernet-based data, Internet, voice, video transport solutions and managed services to businesses across the New York metro area. Optimum Lightpath’s network is a highly reliable, resilient, and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extending more than 4,400 route miles connecting more than 4,500 fiber-lit locations, while the New York State Public Service Commission has given Optimum Lightpath its Commendation of Excellence for 12 straight years. Stop by the Optimum Lightpath booth for a chance to win an iPod Nano!
www.optimumlightpath.com

ParAccel (Booth #2503)
ParAccel is a venture-backed company focused on developing a next-generation, high-performance analytics platform. In today’s analytics-driven environment, gaining fast and accurate business insights from massive volumes of data provides significant strategic advantage. ParAccel enables organizations to address their most dynamic and complex analytic challenges and rapidly gain ultra-fast, deep insights from very large datasets. During SIFMA, ParAccel will demonstrate how to run complex analytics across huge amounts of data in the areas of market risk, stress testing and trading products.
www.paraccel.com

PolarLake (Booth #1421A)
www.polarlake.com

Progress Software (Booth #2111)
www.progress.com

QuantHouse (Booth #1523)
QuantHouse is an independent global provider of low-latency trading solutions—including its QuantFeed ultra-low-latency market data technologies, QuantFactory automated trading platform and QuantLink trading infrastructure and order routing services—to help hedge funds, proprietary desks and latency-sensitive sell-side firms take the lead. With more than 13 international hosting facilities in or near more than 45 exchanges, all interconnected by its proprietary fiber-optic network, QuantHouse’s clients benefit from a leading global trading infrastructure. Visit the booth for a chance to win an AR Drone quadricopter.
www.quanthouse.com

Quodd Financial Information Services (Booth #1621)
Quodd Financial will be showcasing its web-based Quodd Equity+ market data workstation, containing all the features you need and more, for a fraction of the cost of other market data providers. Designed for the financial investment professional, Quodd Equity+ brings together streaming real-time quotes, dynamic market monitors and analytical charting tools with premium news, fundamental data, research, earnings estimates, filings and major market events. Visitors to Quodd’s booth can see a live one-on-one demo of the Quodd Equity+ workstation and take away a Quodd Signature Pen.
www.quodd.com

Real-Time Innovations (Booth #1610)
RTI delivers fast and scalable messaging software that serves as an integration platform for high-performance systems. Based on a brokerless software bus, RTI empowers latency-sensitive applications to take advantage of time-critical opportunities even as volumes spike. At SIFMA, the vendor will showcase its core messaging bus, RTI Data Distribution Service (DDS), designed with a true peer-to-peer architecture that eliminates the overhead and bottlenecks of traditional message brokers, while its data-centric approach accelerates application development and reduces integration efforts, shortening time-to-market.
RTI DDS serves as the foundation for a range of mission-critical applications from military systems to stock trading to medical imaging.
www.rti.com

Redline Trading Solutions (Booth #1509)
Redline delivers algorithmic trading solutions that accelerate the tick-to-trade process, providing ultra-low, consistent latencies under any market conditions. The Redline InRush Accelerated Ticker Plant is a single-server solution that processes market data in as little as five microseconds while simultaneously managing equities, futures, and options exchange feeds.
Seamlessly integrated with the InRush Accelerated Ticker Plant, the Execution Gateway allows strategies to execute trades through a highly optimized, normalized API across multiple exchanges through concurrently managed sessions.
Redline products integrate into existing infrastructures, helping to safeguard firms’ equipment investment while enabling them to scale to meet future requirements.
At SIFMA, Redline will announce its InRush US Equities NBBO solution and its Consolidated Canadian Equities product.
www.redlinetrading.com

Sapient Global Markets (Booth #2611)
Sapient Global Markets provides business and technology services to capital and commodity market participants and regulators. At SIFMA, executives will be on hand to showcase how Sapient is helping financial firms address the key issues reshaping the financial landscape and develop innovative solutions combining people, process and technology. Hear about Sapient’s latest client engagements across multiple disciplines, including data standards, pricing, valuation, risk management, data visualization, transparency, OTC derivative processing and more. Stop by to pick up copies of Sapient’s Crossings: The Journal of Trading and Risk Management, and the 2011 Glossary of Financial Terms, a comprehensive guide to the latest OTC derivative and commodity market terminology, as well as M&Ms and eco-friendly water bottles.
www.sapient.com

Sidera Networks (Booth #1848)
www.sidera.net

Simena (Booth #1852)
www.simena.net

Singularity Technology Solutions (Booth #1608)
www.ststrader.com

SIX Telekurs (Booth #1511)
SIX Telekurs will be highlighting its Evaluated Pricing service for complex and illiquid securities along with its real-time and intraday global market data services. Evaluated Pricing from SIX Telekurs covers an extensive range of fixed income securities, “green” securities, private equity, distressed debt and much more. The vendor’s unique methodology takes maximum consideration of all available market inputs, from yield curves to “like” securities prices to credit events, and leverages its far-reaching reference data and award-winning global corporate actions data. The SIX Telekurs Evaluated Pricing service compliments existing services by delivering prices for the truly hard-to-price securities in every portfolio.
www.six-telekurs.com

SmartTrade Technologies (Booth #1115)
www.smart-trade.net

Solace Systems (Booth #1201)
Solace Systems will be showing off its latest enterprise messaging hardware, the technology that is revolutionizing how leading investment banks, hedge funds, exchanges and market data providers deploy and manage market data delivery and trading applications. Solace will also showcase its new web messaging technology, including a single-dealer platform demo built by Lab49. Stop by to learn how Solace can help accelerate and simplify your enterprise and web messaging infrastructure.
www.solacesystems.com

Spectracom (Booth #1605)
Spectracom’s end-to-end solution for time synchronization in high-performance applications achieves microsecond-level time accuracy in a variety of real-world trading-network topologies. Spectracom addresses the most difficult problems for precise synchronization between trading centers or network partners, time sync when GPS is not present, and translating this precision to clients’ key network elements. Its solutions allow for time-stamping quote and trade data and delivering this time to the application-level itself so that trading algorithms are making decisions and executing on them with the most accurate time possible.
www.spectracom.orolia.com

Spread Networks (Booth #1602)
Spread Networks is showcasing its suite of low-latency connectivity between Chicago and New York, including its flagship dark fiber service, which achieves roundtrip latency under 13.33 milliseconds roundtrip. Built on the backbone of this fiber network, Spread Networks offers a range of wavelength service options for a fully managed and secure point-to-point Ethernet service between Chicago and endpoints in New Jersey including Carteret, Newark, Secaucus and Weehawken. The vendor’s Low-Latency Wave is for customers that value cost-effective network diversity without sacrificing latency, while its Ultra-Low-Latency Wave is for clients looking for the fastest wave service available between Chicago and NJ. Spread Networks also offers server co-location services in Chicago, Carteret and Cleveland, Ohio, allowing co-location directly on the fastest network from Chicago to NY.
www.spreadnetworks.com

SpryWare (Booth #1819)
SpryWare will present its Market Information Server (MIS), a fully managed processing solution for direct exchange feeds, performing ultra-low-latency data ingress arbitration, data normalization, data caching, and subscription-based egress of direct market data feeds. It is a purpose-built set of software code, designed to allow the performance advantages of direct market data access, with the processing convenience of a normalized API. This year SpryWare will discuss new feeds, capacity numbers and what they mean for server installations, and will give away bright green sports bags for you to carry the information in.
www.spryware.com

SR Labs (Booth #1502)
To compete in today’s rapidly changing capital markets, top financial firms rely on Street Response Laboratories (SR Labs) for high-performance trading. SR Labs was created to deliver accurate, end-to-end results where every microsecond counts, and provides reliable and proven solutions that yield superior results in today’s evolving electronic markets. The vendor has developed its market data, order and execution exchange connectivity platforms with an emphasis on ultra-low latency, to accommodate rapidly increasing data rates with user intuitiveness and business efficiency, providing a comprehensive product portfolio for market data, order and execution exchange connectivity.
www.srtechlabs.com

StreamBase Systems (Booth #1854)
Visit StreamBase for an interactive demonstration of its complex event processing (CEP) platform for rapidly building and deploying trading systems that analyze and act on real-time market data. The vendor will showcase its enhanced visual development environment, its list of more than 180 market data connectivity options, and sample applications for low-latency multi-asset trading. Join StreamBase for beer, wine and great giveaways from 4-6pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, and to learn why industry particiapnts like Thomson Reuters, BM&F Bovespa, SunGard and CME Group have selected StreamBase as their CEP platform of choice.
www.streambase.com

Sumerian (Booth #1606)
Sumerian’s IQ services give global investment banks and financial firms the insight to make better, faster decisions and align IT accurately to drive business performance. The company’s unique approach combines software-based analytics with human intelligence to give large, global businesses the transparency and decision-making framework they need to optimize existing IT investments, cut infrastructure costs and manage the most complex IT environments. The Sumerian team will be on hand to discuss their latest client deployments, including how they helped one client reduce holistic latency in their FX business by 75 percent.
www.sumerian.com

Sybase (Booth #2117)
Sybase, an SAP company, offers secure, high-availability software solutions that meet the trading industry’s needs for intensive transaction processing, advanced analytics and modeling. At SIFMA, Sybase will showcase products and technology from key partners (Accenture, Headstrong, Numerix, Panopticon, Phronesis, Platform Computing, Quantia Analytics, and Utopia) whose offerings further enhance the value of Sybase’s analytics and complex event processing solutions. Sybase will also co-host a series of eight free seminars with these partners over the three days of the event.
www.sybase.com/fsi

Symmetricom (Booth #1862)
www.symmetricom.com

TeleTrader Software (Booth #1522)
TeleTrader, a supplier of data, technology and solutions for capital markets, delivers worldwide financial information to banks, brokers, exchanges and web financial portals and the media. TeleTrader technology allows clients to create their own applications by accessing TeleTrader’s data and functionality offerings, including access to market data as a service and live data over HTTP, interactive chart components and datafeed APIs. In addition, TeleTrader provides products for pricing, analysis and visualization of exchange-specific data. At SIFMA, the vendor will be giving away Mozartkugeln (a well-known Austrian chocolate sweet).
www.teletrader.com

Telx (Booth #1403)
Telx will be promoting its Financial Business Exchange (FBX), a community serving the evolving needs of the capital markets industry. Through its secure, strategically located datacenters, Telx FBX offers ultra-low-latency access to a community of market participants including trading venues, market data providers, buy-side and sell-side firms, as well as ISVs, OMS and network service providers. Telx provides financial clients with the speed, resiliency, and security needed to excel in today’s capital markets. Tours of Telx’s financial datacenter hub at 111 Eighth Avenue will be ongoing throughout the SIFMA event. To schedule a private tour, e-mail mcattell@telx.com.
www.telx.com

The Roberts Group (Booth #1802)
The Roberts Group delivers proven market data management solutions through its Financial Information Tracking System, and results-oriented managed services. Since 1998, FITS clients have reduced their expenses by between 10 and 30 percent through cost control, transparency and reporting. TRG will showcase its latest FITS release and other upcoming enhancements, such as: FITS 360°, a dashboard providing instant transparency to top vendor and department spend; configurable fields that enable users to define and capture information specific to each firm; flexible interface design for data organization and display throughout the system; and performance enhancements leveraging eight years of production use of a web-based thin-client user interface. Visit TRG’s booth to find out why cost savings are “just a swing away.”
www.trgrp.com

Tibco Software (Booth #1215)
Tibco Software provides infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. Whether it’s efficient claims or trade processing, cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, Tibco provides the ability to capture the right information at the right time, and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage. Tibco will announce new performance benchmarks for its extreme-low-latency messaging solution, Tibco FTL, and will preview Tibco Web Messaging, a high-performance messaging solution for mobile and web applications, and cloud-scale technology for real-time risk management. Visit Tibco’s booth to learn more and enter a raffle for an iPad 2.
www.tibco.com

Transaction Network Services (TNS) (Booth #1800)
TNS was one of the first organizations to offer a low-latency extranet dedicated to meeting the unique needs of the financial community, and since then has expanded the coverage of its resilient, highly secure network globally, now providing services to customers in over 40 countries and supports a wide variety of asset classes. TNS provides advantages, including access to e-Commerce and FIX connectivity, proprietary trading, broker dealers, exchanges, MTFs, ATSs and ECNs; third-party and order-routing services; and on-net connectivity within days of request. For further information, email financial@tnsi.com or call +1-516-944-0890.
www.tnsfinancial.com

Track Data Corp (Booth #1500)
www.trackdata.com

Weswit/Lightstreamer (Booth #1827)
At SIFMA, Weswit Srl will present version 4.0 (codenamed Duomo) of its Lightstreamer solution that streams real-time data to any desktop, mobile web browsers or app over the Internet. It supports HTML, HTML5, Ajax, Flex, Silverlight, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Java, and .NET with bidirectional data push. Financial firms and services providers that use Lightstreamer to stream market data include Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, DnB NOR, IG Group, City Index, Deutsche Börse, Commerzbank, Fixnetix, Patsystems and Icap.
www.lightstreamer.com

Worden FreeStockCharts.com (Booth #1525)
Worden’s lightweight professional trading platform runs in any browser or on Windows or Mac desktops, with tool windows that can be floated, tabbed and docked into workspaces, and can be connected and synched with mobile devices. The platform includes charts and quote windows connected to real-time streaming data, as well as a comprehensive library of technical studies, fundamentals and drawing tools, and can calculate and scan thousands of items against any technical indicator and timeframe, typically in under 50 milliseconds, with all data processing performed at the server-side against real-time data. The platform can be white labeled, embedded into existing products or hooked into brokerage APIs for integrated trading from charts.
www.worden.com

Xand (Booth #1505)
Visit Xand and learn about its latest expansion in Westchester’s premier datacenter facility, just 30 miles north of New York City. As a provider of datacenter infrastructure, Xand’s core offerings include co-location, managed server hosting, private cloud implementations, and custom-built business continuity workspace for disaster recovery and hot sites. With a diversely routed, privately owned and operated fiber-optic backbone and multiple Tier-1 providers, see how Xand can house your IT assets and assist you with your mission-critical systems.
www.xand.com

Xignite (Booth #1413)
Demonstrating that the SIFMA Expo blurs the line between work and play, on the work side of the equation, Xignite invites attendees to view its new market data services, get an exclusive sneak peek at the CME DataCloud, and watch CEOs from NYSE Technologies, Pico Trading and Xignite discuss “Managing Big Data in the Cloud” at Thursday’s main panel session. On the play side of the equation, stop by to grab a handful of cool trade show freebies, join in on the popular “Shots-to-Champagne” mixers at 4pm daily, and get on the list for the party of the year, Xignite’s Annual VIP Gala, held Wednesday evening from 6pm to 10pm at the Forbes Art Gallery.
www.xignite.com