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Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

A Grid too far?

It's quite something isn't it - grid technology - the concept of a super computer at your disposal, able to provide high performance computing resources to your entire IT estate. However, rather than hark on about latency and proximity concerns that also challenge grid deployments many IT managers are discovering there is the spectre of significan...

05 October 2007

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

Enterprise code management innovations

Noting Chris has been posting on innovation & techie musings at his blog I thought as a change from strategic debate one might observe some tactics that are going on and share these with you... I just got finished reading an article on a company that has inspired this post. Krugle has built a product delivering a service using open source t...

28 September 2007

Retired Member 

The Dealing Room of the Future?

Interested in peoples thoughts on this topic - how will the typical trading desk be look in the next 5-15 years? Some themes to start the ball rolling... Will traders (in the human sense) be actually involved or will they finally have been replaced by a rack of servers? To me this is a real possibility on some flow desks.What about the physical i...

08 June 2007

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The Hunt for Speed

I was recently at the Dealing With Technology (DWT) conference in London, in fact I had the enviable (or unenviable should I say after standing for seven hours straight!) task of manning our companies stand for the day, never hurts to get closer to the customer I thought. One of the key themes of the event, looking around the exhibitors and the se...

23 May 2007