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SUSE Linux to Speed Up Real-Time Trading

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Published: Jun 23, 2007

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Novell the week of June 18 announced that it has entered into an agreement with server and storage switch vendor Voltaire on a joint software package—featuring real-time SUSE Linux—that improves performance of real-time trading applications in the financial markets.

The new software, which takes advantage of InfiniBand interconnectivity, reduces latency bottlenecks on both the operating system level and the data center fabric, a Voltaire spokesperson said from the company headquarters in Billerica, Mass.

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In addition, the software features comprehensive support for both the operating system and InfiniBand capabilities, allowing customers to take advantage of improved performance and the highest levels of availability, the spokesperson said.

The combined hardware/software package consists of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, Voltaire Grid Backbone InfiniBand-based switching hardware, OpenFabrics Enterprise Edition 1.2 InfiniBand software and additional enterprise-focused functionality from Voltaire.

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Chris Preimesberger

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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