The Tokyo GMAC Conference (February 22-24, 2010) has informed us today they’ve closed registration to our “ZLT” event during Workshops A2 and A3 on February 24. The Workshop holds 200 and 29West is already overbooked a full two weeks in advance of the event.
While we’re proud of the result, we do apologize to any of you who were still planning to attend. Stay tuned to this blog and www.29West.com for a future Webinar to accommodate you!
The Race to Zero
Global Trends in Trading Infrastructure Technology
GMAC Tokyo – 11th Annual Japan International Banking & Securities Systems Forum
February 24, 2010
Workshops A-2 and A-3
SOLD OUT!!! (See details below.)
The 29West Zero Latency Tour (ZLT) comes to Tokyo after well acclaimed sessions in London, New York and Chicago. A live panel of distinguished industry experts will discuss global trends in trading technology, including SOR, algorithmic trading systems, crossing engines, electronic exchange venues and market data distribution platforms.
Panelists:
29West President and Founder Mark Mahowald will provide insight into the firm’s proven methods in leveraging existing hardware to minimize investment while providing a reliable, fault tolerant, stable environment capable of executing in micro-seconds. The strategy has been enormously profitable for the firm’s financial institution customers around the world.
For more information about the GMAC conference, please visit http://www.gmac.jp/en/forum/20100223_jibsis_11th/index.html
UPDATE: As of 5 February, the event is over its capacity of 200 and sold out! Stay tuned to this blog and www.29West.com for a possible future Zero Latency Tour Webinar to serve those who could not be accommodated at GMAC.
London, February 10 – 11, 2010
29West will exhibit at TradeTech Architecture in London, February 10 – 11.
Don’t miss our talk! Mark Mahowald, founder and president, 29West, will speak on Thursday the 11th at 09:10.
Topic:
Breaking the Milli-Second Latency Barrier
Evaluating the Best of Breed in UltraLow-Latency Technology & Products to Help You Achieve Light Speed
Accessing Liquidity Through Low-Latency
* What are the dangers you face once you get below the milli-second latency barrier?
* How to stay “latency-competitive”
* Which are the best low-latency middleware offerings?
* Is low latency enough by itself? What performance metrics need to be considered other than speed?
Before or after the talk, please stop by the 29West stand (#2) and hear the latest news on leveraging hardware advances, inter-process communication (IPC) transport, Ultra Messaging® with Queuing (UMQ) and much more.
Register for TradeTech Architecture here.
On September 23rd, 29West held its third in-person Zero Latency Tour event in Chicago. These events are targeted at financial institutions interested in what is increasingly being referred to as “the race to zero”, the increasing realization that lowering system latency delivers concrete competitive advantage.
All of these events have been extremely exciting for 29West. We’ve been pleased to see a large number of our customers in each of the local markets in which we’ve run events (so far London, New York and Chicago; Tokyo is coming in February) showing up to see what we have to say on the topic of eliminating latency in their systems. We’ve continued to get very positive feedback about our technical seminars. Of course, another big draw for these crowds has continued to be our expert panel discussions. This time around, we had:
We’re in the process of sorting through all the video of the event, and we’ll be posting them for viewing and download on the Zero Latency Tour page on our website very soon. In the meantime, here are a couple of my favorite excerpts from the discussions:
[29West] has been 100% reliable since we launched. And we’ve been running on it for 4 years now.
-Edwin Marcial, CTO, ICE
We had a great middleware platform that we built… We threw all that away and put in 29West because it allowed us to really focus on our core business.
-Sean Gilman, CTO, Currenex
Our systems were reliable before, but transitioning to 29West enabled us to make them more robust.
-John Kerin, EVP, COO & CTO, CHX
We haven’t had a greater partner with respect to I.C.E. in terms of technology than 29West.
-Edwin Marcial, CTO, ICE
We’d like to thank all of our customers who showed up – it’s always great to see you guys – as well as our panelists and our moderator, Jim Northey. Also I’d like to assure any of you who haven’t had the chance to get to one of our events that we will continue to host more in the future. Like I mentioned earlier, we’re hosting our first Japanese event in February.
We’re also planning on posting the aggregated results of the industry surveys we’ve been taking at the ZLT events this year. Check back soon for those.
Visit 29West at Booth 105.
High Performance on Wall Street
September 14, 2009
Roosevelt Hotel
New York, NY
Visit 29West at Booth 1014.
Hilton Chicago
October 20-22, 2009
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Visit us at these events!
We’ll share our latest customer success story, Direct Edge, and discuss the many ways 29West can offer higher performance with lower costs.
Be sure to ask for a copy of our UME Performance Report and our architecture poster.
29West’s popular Zero Latency Tour will make a stop in Chicago on September 23rd. The well attended event rolled through London in May and New York in June. “Chicago will be an important stop on the tour,” said Mark Mahowald, 29West founder and president. “The Chicago market, known for futures, options and derivatives is hungry for the technical success stories that 29West and its customers can share at this event.”
As in the other cities, the Zero Latency Tour Chicago will feature a presentation by Mahowald, “The Race to Zero,” as well as a technical session presented by 29West director of technical marketing Bob Van Valzah. And equally popular is the panel discussion by 29West customers, partners or analysts.
“Real word use cases really tell the story best of all,” Mahowald added. IT managers and Chief Technology officers get the most benefit from hearing how firms are implementing ultra-low latency messaging across the enterprise to optimize profits and ensure best exectution on trades.”
The September 23rd live event in Chicago will be held at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center. Visit our website’s Zero Latency Tour page for more information and to register beginning August 1.
If you missed the London or New York Zero Latency Tour, register for our Live Webinar on August 7 or August 12. 29West director of technical marketing Bob Van Valzah will present a summary version of the event on both dates from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. CDT, 11 toto12 noon ET, 4 – 5 p.m. GMT, 12 midnight to 1 a.m. Tokyo.
After you register, you will receive a link for the webinar by August 6.
You can download more free Zero Latency Tour content here.
As many of you are likely aware, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) is hosting their annual Technology Management Conference and Exhibit next week (Tuesday through Thursday, the 23rd through 25th) in New York.
Not only will be be exhibiting at this year’s SIFMA TMC, but we’re also hosting architectural one-on-one sessions with our principal software architect, Todd Montgomery. He’ll be covering in-depth technical topics, including specifics about our new queueing message delivery model. While the schedule has filled up quickly, if you’re interested, please let us know.
Feel free to drop by, pick up a copy of our company poster, hear the latest news in high-performance messaging, or just say hello. We’d love to talk to you. Our booth is number 1503.
Building on the great success of our London Zero Latency Tour event, this past Tuesday 29West hosted our latest discussion on the state of the art in financial messaging. Our latest event was held in an auditorium in the Credit Suisse building at 11 Madison Ave in New York.
We had a packed house
The room was full while Mark Mahowald and Bob Van Valzah gave their presentations, and the panel discussion turned into a very interactive discussion between the panelists and the audience.
We’d like to once again thank our panelists for their contributions to our events. Topics on the panel included how to properly monitor your system without impacting performance, “how fast is fast enough?”, and several others. Panelists from the New York event included:
The panel was moderated by Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst with TABB Group.
Wall Street & Technology recently published a write-up about our panel discussion. You can find the story here.
The Zero Latency Tour will resume in September with Zero Latency Tour: Chicago. We’d love to see you there.
