Press Coverage
2010
TS-Associates, Solace Integrate Messaging Technology
Ottawa-based middleware provider Solace Systems and TS-Associates, a provider of middleware monitoring solutions, have integrated their appliances at the request of several of Solace’s customers in the financial services sector, including a large multinational bank, both companies said today.
Ottawa-based middleware provider Solace Systems and TS-Associates, a provider of middleware monitoring solutions, have integrated their appliances at the request of several of Solace’s customers in the financial services sector, including a large multinational bank, both companies said today.
March 2010
TipOff Gains Solace Support
As a result of a mutual banking client’s request to cut its latency, latency monitoring platform provider and consultancy TS-Associates is adding support for Solace Systems’ hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform middleware to its TipOff monitoring appliance.
As a result of a mutual banking client’s request to cut its latency, latency monitoring platform provider and consultancy TS-Associates is adding support for Solace Systems’ hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform middleware to its TipOff monitoring appliance.
March 2010
Solace Enlists TS-A for Latency Monitoring (subscription required)
Hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems has partnered with data consultancy and latency monitoring.
Hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems has partnered with data consultancy and latency monitoring.
March 2010
Solace Teams with TS-Associates for Hardware-Based Latency Measurement (subscription required)
Solace Systems is beta testing a version of its hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform that integrates TS-Associates’ TipOff monitoring system. The solution is aimed at helping financial firms measure and optimise latency in high-performance messaging infrastructures.
Solace Systems is beta testing a version of its hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform that integrates TS-Associates’ TipOff monitoring system. The solution is aimed at helping financial firms measure and optimise latency in high-performance messaging infrastructures.
March 2010
TS-Associates and Solace to enable latency measurement
Solace Systems, the provider of hardware-based middleware, has announced that TS-Associates, provider of the solution for the precise monitoring and management of low-latency messaging infrastructures, has added support for Solace’s Unified Messaging Platform. TS-Associates’ monitoring appliance, called TipOff™, precisely measures and optimizes latency in high-performance messaging infrastructures like those enabled by Solace’s messaging appliances.
Solace Systems, the provider of hardware-based middleware, has announced that TS-Associates, provider of the solution for the precise monitoring and management of low-latency messaging infrastructures, has added support for Solace’s Unified Messaging Platform. TS-Associates’ monitoring appliance, called TipOff™, precisely measures and optimizes latency in high-performance messaging infrastructures like those enabled by Solace’s messaging appliances.
March 2010
Speed Wars: A New Hope
In the original Star Wars, the actors bicker as Han Solo programs a computer to “make the jump to light speed” and outrun an enemy spaceship. Though writer-director George Lucas’ dialogue was as wooden as many of the pre-CGI models and special effects, the prospect of light-speed travel must have resonated with those members of the audience who grew up to work in the market data industry.
In the original Star Wars, the actors bicker as Han Solo programs a computer to “make the jump to light speed” and outrun an enemy spaceship. Though writer-director George Lucas’ dialogue was as wooden as many of the pre-CGI models and special effects, the prospect of light-speed travel must have resonated with those members of the audience who grew up to work in the market data industry.
March 2010
DHS Finds Solution to Monitor Nuclear Safety in Real-time
The problem DHS faces are the sheer amount of locations and different sensors and systems involved to monitor the nuclear industry and the environments surrounding them. Centralizing the EXDL exchange of data brings architecture and data management increases risks that should the system experience a failure at a primary (and backup) location where monitoring and data flows are being feed. Solace Systems has built a system that facilitates the needs DHS required to fulfill this daunting challenge and was awarded a DHS contract to implement it for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) use.
The problem DHS faces are the sheer amount of locations and different sensors and systems involved to monitor the nuclear industry and the environments surrounding them. Centralizing the EXDL exchange of data brings architecture and data management increases risks that should the system experience a failure at a primary (and backup) location where monitoring and data flows are being feed. Solace Systems has built a system that facilitates the needs DHS required to fulfill this daunting challenge and was awarded a DHS contract to implement it for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) use.
January 2010
Homeland Security Nuclear Detection Office Turns to Geospatial Routing
The Homeland Security Department’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office is adding geospatial routing technology to its data distribution system to improve threat monitoring and response capabilities across local, state and federal emergency management organizations. The office is using Solace Systems’ Geospatial Routing Blade, which gives the company’s Solace 3260 message routers the ability to distribute information based on geospatial coordinates contained within the data stream.
The Homeland Security Department’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office is adding geospatial routing technology to its data distribution system to improve threat monitoring and response capabilities across local, state and federal emergency management organizations. The office is using Solace Systems’ Geospatial Routing Blade, which gives the company’s Solace 3260 message routers the ability to distribute information based on geospatial coordinates contained within the data stream.
January 2010
Business@Night – Tuesday Tech Focus with Solace Systems
Larry Neumann, Solace’s vice president of marketing and alliances, chats with Greg Hebert about the company’s inroads into the government space through the company’s new geospatial routing blade, partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific, and new customer the US Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
Larry Neumann, Solace’s vice president of marketing and alliances, chats with Greg Hebert about the company’s inroads into the government space through the company’s new geospatial routing blade, partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific, and new customer the US Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
January 2010
Solace Secures Deal Through Thermo Fisher Partnership
Solace Systems has announced a partnership with R&D giant Thermo Fisher Scientific, with the combined solution already landing its first customer, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Solace Systems has announced a partnership with R&D giant Thermo Fisher Scientific, with the combined solution already landing its first customer, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
January 2010
2009
Solace Systems Sets the Pace in the Race to Zero Latency
The lucrative messaging business has attracted a number of companies, including TIBCO Software, 29West, IBM, RTI, Tervela, NYSE Technologies, and Solace Systems. Of these, Solace has been one of the most aggressive in attacking the latency issue. The company’s big claim to fame is its hardware approach to message acceleration.
The lucrative messaging business has attracted a number of companies, including TIBCO Software, 29West, IBM, RTI, Tervela, NYSE Technologies, and Solace Systems. Of these, Solace has been one of the most aggressive in attacking the latency issue. The company’s big claim to fame is its hardware approach to message acceleration.
September 2009
How Barclays Chose Its Messaging Middleware
“It was just about a year ago, on September 15, 2008, that Lehman declared bankruptcy and Barclays agreed to acquire its North American investment banking, and fixed income and equities sales, trading and research operations businesses. On the morning of this almost-anniversary, Stephen Neal, director, middleware at Barclays Capital, told attendees at the High Performance Computing on Wall Street show about the challenge of integrating the former Lehman businesses into the Barclays infrastructure, which spurred his quest for a new middleware solution. Neal started the selection process in 2006 and gradually whittled his middleware vendor pool from 13, to four and finally to one. In the evaluation process, his most important consideration was the deviation from peak latency to average latency and ouliers. “A small amount of deviation and predictability were key for us,” he sayd. His group simulated a trading environment to test the products, and Solace’s 3260 Content Routers came out the winner. The firm now uses Solace to integrate messaging applications spanning the front, middle and back office.”
“It was just about a year ago, on September 15, 2008, that Lehman declared bankruptcy and Barclays agreed to acquire its North American investment banking, and fixed income and equities sales, trading and research operations businesses. On the morning of this almost-anniversary, Stephen Neal, director, middleware at Barclays Capital, told attendees at the High Performance Computing on Wall Street show about the challenge of integrating the former Lehman businesses into the Barclays infrastructure, which spurred his quest for a new middleware solution. Neal started the selection process in 2006 and gradually whittled his middleware vendor pool from 13, to four and finally to one. In the evaluation process, his most important consideration was the deviation from peak latency to average latency and ouliers. “A small amount of deviation and predictability were key for us,” he sayd. His group simulated a trading environment to test the products, and Solace’s 3260 Content Routers came out the winner. The firm now uses Solace to integrate messaging applications spanning the front, middle and back office.”
September 2009
OASIS Emergency Interoperability Summit Explores Advances in Next Generation Alert, Warning, Resource Management, and Hospital Coordination
Solace will participate in an interoperability demonstration showing the use of CAP and EDXL in a train accident scenario involving a chemical leak compounded by the threat of tornadoes. Working with scenario details provided by NOAA and the State of Virginia, the Interop will demonstrate how standards can be used for HazMat dispatch, Emergency Alert System (EAS) notices, transportation of injured firefighters to appropriately equipped hospitals, and weather radio alerts.
Solace will participate in an interoperability demonstration showing the use of CAP and EDXL in a train accident scenario involving a chemical leak compounded by the threat of tornadoes. Working with scenario details provided by NOAA and the State of Virginia, the Interop will demonstrate how standards can be used for HazMat dispatch, Emergency Alert System (EAS) notices, transportation of injured firefighters to appropriately equipped hospitals, and weather radio alerts.
September 2009
Preventing the Two-Minute Meltdown
“This time around, it took financial markets about two years to melt down. The next time it could be two minutes. That’s because success in trading is now measured in how few feet your electrons travel. With high-frequency trading your algorithm has to beat he other guy’s algorithm to the punch by microseconds. This is what Ralph Frankel, the chief technology officer of Solace Systems, dubs “latency arbitrage,” in a guest commentary on our site, www.securitiesindustry.com.”
“This time around, it took financial markets about two years to melt down. The next time it could be two minutes. That’s because success in trading is now measured in how few feet your electrons travel. With high-frequency trading your algorithm has to beat he other guy’s algorithm to the punch by microseconds. This is what Ralph Frankel, the chief technology officer of Solace Systems, dubs “latency arbitrage,” in a guest commentary on our site, www.securitiesindustry.com.”
August 2009
The Un(?)fair Advantage of Latency Arbitrage
“Technologically advanced traders are giving themselves an advantage that some people feel is just that unfair. Using techniques and technologies I’ll describe below, they squeeze every last microsecond of latency out of their market data feeds and trading systems to give themselves a sneak peak of market prices that’s measured in milliseconds. Thanks to powerful algorithms and high-speed order executions systems that’s enough time for them to engage in “latency arbitrage†– the buying and selling of equities based on small price changes that have not yet been broadly recognized due to the varying speeds of market data delivery systems.”
“Technologically advanced traders are giving themselves an advantage that some people feel is just that unfair. Using techniques and technologies I’ll describe below, they squeeze every last microsecond of latency out of their market data feeds and trading systems to give themselves a sneak peak of market prices that’s measured in milliseconds. Thanks to powerful algorithms and high-speed order executions systems that’s enough time for them to engage in “latency arbitrage†– the buying and selling of equities based on small price changes that have not yet been broadly recognized due to the varying speeds of market data delivery systems.”
Ju ly2009
Low-latency ESB solution relies on high-powered hardware
“There are lessons to be learned for SOA and middleware in the evolution of network computing. Networking started with complex designs, but eventually, network switches served as reliable building blocks for network architects. Solace’s single API is said to work across middleware types that include high-fan-out, guaranteed MQ, as well content routing and transformation types.”
“There are lessons to be learned for SOA and middleware in the evolution of network computing. Networking started with complex designs, but eventually, network switches served as reliable building blocks for network architects. Solace’s single API is said to work across middleware types that include high-fan-out, guaranteed MQ, as well content routing and transformation types.”
July 2009
The rise of hardware in messaging systems?
“Messaging is the sort of technology that’s easy to take for granted. These days we sort of assume that all applications are in touch with one another. We get sort of indignant when we realize that lots of applications and data are still islands unto themselves. But the ability of all programs across an enterprise to communicate and share is on the rise, especially on Wall Street, where messaging is a competitive necessity.”
“Messaging is the sort of technology that’s easy to take for granted. These days we sort of assume that all applications are in touch with one another. We get sort of indignant when we realize that lots of applications and data are still islands unto themselves. But the ability of all programs across an enterprise to communicate and share is on the rise, especially on Wall Street, where messaging is a competitive necessity.”
July 2009
Solace Touts ‘Unified’ Platform(subscription required)
“Larry Neumann, senior vice president of marketing and alliances at Solace, says the vendor received multiple requests for a distributed cache, to capture data from the messaging bus, and to be able to access data from applications. Neumann says the vendor has also halved the latency of its guaranteed messaging to around 100 microseconds, from around 200 microseconds when first introduced last year.”
“Larry Neumann, senior vice president of marketing and alliances at Solace, says the vendor received multiple requests for a distributed cache, to capture data from the messaging bus, and to be able to access data from applications. Neumann says the vendor has also halved the latency of its guaranteed messaging to around 100 microseconds, from around 200 microseconds when first introduced last year.”
June 2009
Hardware cuts messaging latency
“Why is hardware acceleration so important? According to Solace Systems, if 10 traders are interested in IBM’s share price, a unique IBM quote will be sent separately to each trader. This represents a fan-out of 10. Doing this in software is very slow. Instead, SolaceSystems does all of its TCP processing in hardware, using a massively parallel architecture, which it says is quick enough to support the low-latency, high-volume environments required on trading desks.”
“Why is hardware acceleration so important? According to Solace Systems, if 10 traders are interested in IBM’s share price, a unique IBM quote will be sent separately to each trader. This represents a fan-out of 10. Doing this in software is very slow. Instead, SolaceSystems does all of its TCP processing in hardware, using a massively parallel architecture, which it says is quick enough to support the low-latency, high-volume environments required on trading desks.”
June 2009
Solace Upgrades Messaging Appliances; Positions as Unified Messaging Platform(subscription required)
“Solace Systems will use this week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference to roll out an upgrade to its messaging appliances and to position them as a Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), providing a range of messaging capabilities, including high fan-out, low-latency, guaranteed delivery and wide area networking. Also being introduced is a distributed cache offering and partnerships for legacy system connectivity and enhanced systems monitoring.”
“Solace Systems will use this week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference to roll out an upgrade to its messaging appliances and to position them as a Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), providing a range of messaging capabilities, including high fan-out, low-latency, guaranteed delivery and wide area networking. Also being introduced is a distributed cache offering and partnerships for legacy system connectivity and enhanced systems monitoring.”
June 2009
MetaBit taps Solace Systems content routers for trading platforms
“Solace Systems, the leader in messaging middleware and content networking hardware, today announced that Tokyo-based trading technology provider MetaBit has selected Solace 3260 Content Routers to boost the performance of their trading platforms.”
“Solace Systems, the leader in messaging middleware and content networking hardware, today announced that Tokyo-based trading technology provider MetaBit has selected Solace 3260 Content Routers to boost the performance of their trading platforms.”
May 2009
MetaBit Turns to Solace for Performance Bump(subscription required)
“In order to boost the performance of its trading offerings in the Asia-Pacific markets, trading technology provider MetaBit plans to embed low-latency, high-throughout Solace 3260 Content Routers from hardware-based middleware and messaging technology vendor Solace Systems, officials plan to announce tomorrow.”
“In order to boost the performance of its trading offerings in the Asia-Pacific markets, trading technology provider MetaBit plans to embed low-latency, high-throughout Solace 3260 Content Routers from hardware-based middleware and messaging technology vendor Solace Systems, officials plan to announce tomorrow.”
May 2009
Solace Adds 10 Gigabit Ethernet Blade to Hardware Middleware Product Lineup
“As with Solace’s current eight and four port 1 GigE Network Acceleration Blades, the 10 GigE Network Acceleration Blade is fully compatible with all other Solace hardware content blades. This new blade expands the product set to offer companies adopting 10 GigE even higher throughput and lower latency for all their content networking applications.”
“As with Solace’s current eight and four port 1 GigE Network Acceleration Blades, the 10 GigE Network Acceleration Blade is fully compatible with all other Solace hardware content blades. This new blade expands the product set to offer companies adopting 10 GigE even higher throughput and lower latency for all their content networking applications.”
April 2009
Solace Adds 10 GigE Networking; Benchmarks with Arista, NetEffect
“Hardware-accelerated messsaging specialist Solace Systems has introduced the Solace 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) Network Acceleration Blade for use within Solace Content Routers. This blade is targeted at high data rate/low latency applications.”
“Hardware-accelerated messsaging specialist Solace Systems has introduced the Solace 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) Network Acceleration Blade for use within Solace Content Routers. This blade is targeted at high data rate/low latency applications.”
April 2009
Solace, GigaSpaces Team on Clusters
“Solace’s innovative hardware was specifically designed to support the high-throughput low-latency exchange of information across distributed environments with the highest quality of service– that is not available via pure software solutions.”
“Solace’s innovative hardware was specifically designed to support the high-throughput low-latency exchange of information across distributed environments with the highest quality of service– that is not available via pure software solutions.”
February 2009
Solace, Gigaspaces Support Low Latency Over A WAN
“Solace’s hardware-based messaging middleware has built-in sequencing technology, compression and other WAN-optimization features implemented in hardware so that it can send many messages at a time without waiting for each confirmation.”
“Solace’s hardware-based messaging middleware has built-in sequencing technology, compression and other WAN-optimization features implemented in hardware so that it can send many messages at a time without waiting for each confirmation.”
February 2009
Solace Systems to Improve Cross-Agency Communication for Homeland Security
“EDXL-DE ensures that all kinds of real-time updates, whether they are aerial photos, chemical weapons detection sensor data or ground coordination plans are delivered within milliseconds to organizations which need, and are authorized to receive, that kind of information.”
“EDXL-DE ensures that all kinds of real-time updates, whether they are aerial photos, chemical weapons detection sensor data or ground coordination plans are delivered within milliseconds to organizations which need, and are authorized to receive, that kind of information.”
February 2009
Barclays Capital trims cost with messaging platform
“The investment banking division of the financial services giant will use the solution comprising software and hardware as its enterprise-wide high-speed messaging platform, which will integrate front-, middle- and back-office applications. The deal is expected to generate cost savings related to development, datacentre and support costs and simplify the division’s IT infrastructure.”
“The investment banking division of the financial services giant will use the solution comprising software and hardware as its enterprise-wide high-speed messaging platform, which will integrate front-, middle- and back-office applications. The deal is expected to generate cost savings related to development, datacentre and support costs and simplify the division’s IT infrastructure.”
February 2009
TIBCO’s New Appliance Competes With IBM’s
“If TIBCO has a faster box, IBM will naturally join the arms race. And hardware being hardware, I’d guess that IBM can quickly upgrade hardware. McNamara counters that IBM’s PC-like “general-purpose hardware” won’t be able to match TIBCO purpose-built device (built by Solace Systems), which is more like a high-speed router or network switch.”
“If TIBCO has a faster box, IBM will naturally join the arms race. And hardware being hardware, I’d guess that IBM can quickly upgrade hardware. McNamara counters that IBM’s PC-like “general-purpose hardware” won’t be able to match TIBCO purpose-built device (built by Solace Systems), which is more like a high-speed router or network switch.”
February 2009
