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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Netezza and the NYSE Superfast Network

You may have noticed I have been exploring Netezza of late, the data warehousing appliance innovator. Here is an interesting case study that includes them:

Case study: NYSE readies 800Gbps super fast network
... Topics: Network Infrastructure Stock exchange NYSE Euronext is deploying a 100Gbps network from Ciena as part of its plans to improve bandwidth tenfold and reduce latency in financial transactions. It hopes the increase in speed and reduction in the time taken for transaction processing the network promises to provide will enable it to take more business from competitors.

The network will play a key role in NYSE Euronext's communications backbone - the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network, which aims to give the exchange's customers' access to a variety of financial services.

Last year the NYSE replaced an Oracle IO relational database with a datawarehousing appliance from Netezza, allowing it to conduct rapid searches of 650Tbytes of data ... '

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