Archive for the ‘Financial Services’ Category

Introducing EndaceVision : a brand new way to look at your network

At long last, after many months of testing and coding, we’re extremely excited to be to be able to announce the launch of EndaceVision the first 100% Endace created network visibility solution.

As followers of our story will know, for the last ten years we’ve been the platform-of-choice for organizations seeking to protect, monitor and measure their networks, but to date we have been reliant on software applications from third parties to deliver the application layer. For the first time EndaceVision breaks that third-party dependency and provides proven 100% accurate Endace network visibility all the way from the wire to the screen and back again, so it goes without saying that this is a big step for us. As hardware guys, the beauty of being able to write your own application is that you get to truly optimize every aspect of the application. EndaceVision leverages a unique blend of hardware and software processing to create the fastest, most accurate and most elegant architecture of any visibility solution today. Having the right solution architecture has always been important to us because EndaceVision, and the underlying visibility infrastructure that powers it, is designed specifically to meet the demands of 100Gbps networks, which is quite literally a whole different ball game.

What is a microburst really?

It seems that every vendor has their own definition of what a microburst is. As per normal, vendor’s definitions are heavily influenced by what they can and can’t measure. At the macro level there’s broad agreement that a microburst is a “short period of time when a burst of network traffic occurs that is significantly higher than normal” – but how shorter period of time and how much higher than normal are areas where opinions start to differ.

To make any sense of this question it’s important to understand what causes a microburst and what impact they can have on your business systems.

Top Ten Cyber Security Trends for Financial Services in 2012

Booz Allen Hamilton recently produced an interesting research paper looking at the cyber threats faced by financial services. As an organisations focusing on vertical segments that have the fastest infrastructure and the most to lose if as and when it all goes wrong, it’ll be of no surprise that we’re very interested in banks.

Talking Market Surveillance with Mondo Visione

At the beginning of the month we were invited to participate in Mondo Visione’s panel discussion on trading market surveillance. It was a fascinating discussion with participants from Millennium IT, b-next and Katten Muchin Rosenman. You can watch key videos from the participants here.