Richard Croucher

To stay in the game, trading firms must manage ever-growing data rates and keep their architectures competitive, whether it’s making software faster or hardware smarter. But mounting requirements for regulation, compliance, and cyber are straining resources.

Innovations like NVMe over fabrics, storage class memory, and the software to leverage them have promised radical shifts in throughput/latency/cost tradeoff curves. These technologies have now been in the market long enough to undergo considerable tire kicking, proofs of concept, and initial implementations.

Ever-increasing demands from the business, the growth of new AI workloads, and the increasing pull of public clouds call for faster and more flexible ways to get data where it’s needed in computations. Fortunately, the vendor community is competing and collaborating to solve these problems.