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Telx Clifton Campus…A Game Changer for Capital Markets
The June 19th Grand Opening of Telx's new flagship campus in Clifton (NJ),will mark an exciting time for Telx and for the Financial Technology industry as a whole. Already a key financial colocation facility, the existing 100 Delawanna datacenter houses exchanges, buy-side, sell-side, and HFT shops from across the world's financial markets, but it was lacking some of the "pizzazz" of other centers in the area. About a year ago across the parking lot from 100 Delawanna, Telx broke ground on a new 215,000 sq. ft flagship datacenter—a state of…
Mon, May 20, 2013 | Written by Shawn KaplanIs “Big Data in the Cloud” Tomorrow’s High Frequency Trading Edge?
Earlier this month at the A-Team Low-Latency Technology Summit in NYC, I participated in a panel discussion addressing the issue of where trading strategies are headed. The panel’s thesis was that low-latency architectures are now commonly available to all traders, effectively neutralizing the benefits firms had originally enjoyed by being early adopters of low-latency technologies. Essentially by understanding a bit of micro-market structure and having a faster set of trading technologies, it was fairly easy to make a quick-buck trading.…
Wed, May 15, 2013 | Written by Shawn Kaplan
Netflix, Big Movies, and Big Data
Every night, Netflix accounts for about one-third of the downstream Internet traffic in North America, dwarfing all of its major rivals combined. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, HBO Go, Amazon.com, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.Netflix has more than 36 million subscribers. They watch about 4 billion hours of programs every quarter on more than 1,000 different devices. To meet this demand, the company uses specialized video servers scattered around the world. When a subscriber clicks on a movie to stream, Netflix determines within a…
Mon, May 13, 2013 | Written by Ken Kajikawa
MarketplaceLIVE Is Just One Month Away: Knock Out Agenda Planned
Marketplace LIVE — Telx’s premier networking event that helps companies grow by enabling them to…
What is H.265?
1. The Definition · The H.265 standard, also informally known as High Efficiency Video…
The 3 Big Trends at NAB 2013
Last week, Telx was a sponsor of NAB Disruptive Media. The NAB Show, with over 92,000 media and…
How Many of Us Consume Digital Media on Multiple Screens and What Are We Doing?
Our screens - wearables, smartphones, tablets, personal computers - laptop and desktop - connected…