By Audrey Rasmussen, Bill Moran and Rich Ptak
Dell recently announced a definitive agreement
to acquire EMC, including its approximate 80% ownership in VMware. Shortly
after, EMC and VMware announced the creation of a joint venture in Cloud
computing, named Virtustream. Does this mega-merger makes sense – for the
companies, the industry, customers and shareholders? This report focuses on the
potential impact of this acquisition on the companies, industry including
potential competitors, and customers. We need to qualify this document by
saying that this merger is an evolving situation and developments after the
completion of this document will affect many of our conclusions.
Read the report at: http://www.ptakassociates.com/app/download/7242715199/Dell-EMC+Merger+Report+-+FINAL.pdf
Ptak Associates paints the big picture on Cloud, Mobile, Mainframes, Blockchain, DevOps,Cognitive Computing,Quantum Computing, etc. Partnering with us, IT organizations understand and prioritize their needs within the context of IT trends, and technology vendors refine their strategies. We provide both with market insight, actionable recommendations, and deliverables that communicate the business values of their products and services
Monday, December 14, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
POWER8, Linux, and CAPI provide micro-second information processing to Algo-Logic’s Tick-to-Trade (T2T) clients
By Rich Ptak and Bill Moran
Rapid processing of data improves decision-making
in trading, research, and operations, benefitting enterprises and consumers. Computer
servers accelerated with Field
Programmable Gate Arrays[1] (FPGAs) operate at the
greatest speeds to collect, analyze, and act on data. As data volumes sky
rocket, processing speed becomes critically important.
Algo-Logic[2] leverages the speed of
FPGAs to achieve the lowest possible trading latency. Their clients have access
to data in 1.5 millionths of a second, enabling them to make better trades. Algo-Logic
Systems’ CAPI-enabled Order Book is a part of a complete Tick-to-Trade (T2T) System[3] for market makers, hedge
funds, and latency-sensitive trading firms. The exchange data feed is instantly
processed by an FPGA. The results go to the shared memory of an IBM POWER8
server equipped with the IBM CAPI[4] card and specialized FPGA
technology. Then, in less than 1.5 microseconds, it updates an order book of transactions
(buy/sell/quantity).
Stock trading generates an enormous data
flow about the price and number of shares available. Regulated exchanges, such
as NASDAQ, provide a real-time feed of market data to trading systems so that
humans and automated trading systems can place competitive bids to buy and sell
equities. By monitoring level 3 tick
data and generating a level 2 order book, traders[5] can precisely track the
number of shares available at each price level. Firms using Algo-Logic’s
CAPI-enabled Order Book benefit from the split-second differences in understanding and
interpreting the data[6] from the stock exchange
feed.
Algo-Logic released their CAPI-enabled
Order Book in March 2015. Multiple customers now use it in projects that
include accelerated network processing of protocol parsing, financial
surveillance systems, algorithmic trading, etc. with many proof-of-concept
projects underway.
Algo-Logic found success with Linux,
POWER8, and CAPI. We expect to write more about, Algo-Logic and other OpenPOWER Foundation[7] partners as they continue
to develop solutions and POWER8-Linux systems demonstrate their ability to handle
big data at the speeds developers, architects, and users need.
[3] See http://algo-logic.com/ticktotrade,
also see: “CAPI Enabled Order Book Running on IBM® POWER8™ Server” at: http://algo-logic.com/CAPIorderbook
[4] For a discussion of CAPI see: http://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/capi/home.html
[5] We oversimplify stock market operations for clarity.
For more details visit the footnotes.
[6] This is High Frequency Trading (HFT), for
information, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
IBM Watson + Power Systems mainstream Cognitive Computing
By Rich Ptak
Five years ago, powered by IBM POWER7 servers, a master-bedroom sized Watson broke into public consciousness making headlines as an undefeated champion against past Jeopardy winners. Since then IBM has put "Watson to work" with the latest POWER8 technology, OpenPOWER Foundation partners and multiple support centers...IBM is "mainstreaming" Watson.....read what's being done and our take on it....http://www.ptakassociates.com/content/
Five years ago, powered by IBM POWER7 servers, a master-bedroom sized Watson broke into public consciousness making headlines as an undefeated champion against past Jeopardy winners. Since then IBM has put "Watson to work" with the latest POWER8 technology, OpenPOWER Foundation partners and multiple support centers...IBM is "mainstreaming" Watson.....read what's being done and our take on it....http://www.ptakassociates.com/content/
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