Archive for the ‘Low Latency Monitoring’ 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.

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.

Lost in Translation: Your financial services network may have data holes… here is how to find and plug them

By Chandan Sharma – Global Managing Director for Verizon Business

Business agility is an art among a whole big bunch of science. Every financial organization has to cope with increasingly enormous amounts of data: customer data, billing data, product usage data, employee data, reference data, and, perhaps most importantly for financial markets participants, market data delivered real-time for optimal trading decisions. And, algorithmic trading has further underscored the importance real-time delivery of reliable and accurate market data for trading decisions.

You can only imagine the potential effect of finding that the information on which you were making crucial decisions was actually riddled with gaps, thus compromising the integrity of the market data upon which trading algorithms or people such as trading specialists make more informed and timely decisions. If anything is ‘lost in translation’ from market center to the algorithmic engine or the trading terminal they won’t be.