IBM

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IBM WebSphere® Front Office for Financial Markets offers a low-latency, market data platform for integrating real-time market data. (more)

The vendor says:

IBM WebSphere® MQ Low Latency Messaging is a highly optimized messaging transport that facilitates the high-speed delivery of market, trade, reference and event data. (more)

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IBM provides middleware solutions for market data distribution and execution related workloads.

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First-ever tick database benchmark that uses community-developed testing standards.

Audited STAC-M2 Benchmark of LBM on a Cisco Catalyst 4900M switch, using Cisco UCS servers and Solarflare SFN5122F NICs with OpenOnload

Audited STAC-M2 Benchmark of LBM on a Cisco Nexus 5010 switch, using Cisco UCS servers and Solarflare SFN5122F NICs with OpenOnload

"The era of comparable messaging benchmarks has now begun."

STAC Report Highlights* for:

IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging v2.2.0.2, RHEL AS v5.3, IBM Bladecenter H, HS22 Blades, 2 x quad-core Intel Xeon X5570 2.93 GHz, Mellanox MT26428 ConnectX HCA, Voltaire 40Gb QDR InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM Bladecenter H

Tested against STAC-M2 v1.0 specs.

IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging: Engineered for the rigorous latency and throughput requirements of today's demanding financial trading environments.