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- Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Trading Desk Phones for Wireless Mobility
- Fractions of a second can make or break a company on today's volatile trading floors. Contact between colleagues and clients in this environment must be reliable and immediate. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest futures trading institution, is accomplishing this by providing its floor traders with mobile communication using...
- Tags: Phone, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., SpectraLink Corp., Wireless
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- CME Runs High-Growth Electronic Trading Business on HP NonStop Platform
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME is the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options, handling nearly 800 million futures contracts in 2004. Company was facing problem to deliver high-performance, round-the-clock electronic trading while keeping up with growing transaction volumes and increased customer expectations....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Leadership, Servers, Management, Hardware
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- Novell Case Study: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an international marketplace that enables businesses to allocate assets and manage financial risks. The Merc has several dozen servers, networked with Tandem and IBM mainframes, that operate trading floor wallboards, facilitate office productivity and communications, connect to other markets, and enable electronic trading. With so...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Network, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Merc, Mainframes, Servers, Networking, Hardware
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- Fast-Growing Chicago Mercantile Exchange Keeps Pace
- Economical operation, short response times and the high reliability required for handling confidential files - those are the benefits offered by the digitization solution Commerzbank AG has implemented at three locations in Germany. The solution boasts seamless processes and advanced technology. When it came to choosing the IT infrastructure for...
- Tags: Intel Itanium 2, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- CME Completes Successful Implementation of HP Integrity NonStop System for Electronic Trading Business
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME - which adopted the more cosmopolitan name in 1917 - is the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options, handling more than 1 billion futures contracts (worth more than US$636 trillion) in 2005. CME wanted to deliver high-performance,...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., CME, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Strohl Systems Group Case Study: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
- With an average of $1.5 billion trading each day and more than $250 trillion changing hands in a year, business continuity planning BCP is a responsibility the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME takes very seriously. CME had a disaster recovery plan in place but was looking for someone who could develop...
- Tags: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Business Security, Disaster Recovery, Strategy, It Services, Business Operations, Data Management, Management
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- Updated Application Speeds Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Auditing Functions
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CME is the largest futures exchange in the United States, trading over a record 4.4 million contracts per day in the second quarter of 2005, up 33 percent from the same period a year ago, via CME Globex, its electronic trading platform, and the trading...
- Tags: Auditing, Microsoft Visual Basic, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Financial Statements, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Financial Accounting, Finance
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Additional Resources
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft buys DATAllegro
- Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be ReliableWow, you know it is bad when...You know it is bad when one of your most fervent fanboys tells you to stay away from an Apple service![i]The planned iDisk File Sharing featured was delayed[/i]More vaporware from Apple. Sounds like once again, they've...
- Tags: Desktops, Groupware, MobileMe, Mossberg
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Students: the broadband troubleshooter
- Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...
- Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Attack code published for DNS flaw
- Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...
- Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIAGreat news!Back in the day, practical folks used to talk well about Volvos. They said that Volvos were safe, reliable, family cars. There were however not many takers. People instead swooned over sexier, more stylish cars. This is precisely...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Java development tools, Desktops, video game, video, game, CRM, Web browser, iTunes client, Entellium, Apple iTunes, Sun Java Studio Creator, desktop, rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Attack code published for DNS flaw
- The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug
- RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bugThis article is almost a week late.....FinallyYou write this article on July 22nd and I quote from the article: "Research in Motion RIM has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server."Your...
- Tags: Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, execution bug
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Sybase extends Lotus Notes, Exchange support to iPhone 3G
- Sybase extends Lotus Notes, Exchange support to iPhone 3GEnterprise Web Appssome web apps do already offer similar functionality already for the iphone. doe example the app http://iphone.hyperoffice.com offers intergrated collaboration and messaging functionality.
- Tags: Groupware, E-mail servers, cloud computing, Apple iPhone 3G, Sybase Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, 3G, Apple iPhone, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Five Essential Considerations For Exchange 2007® Implementations
- As the latest release of the most commonly used corporate email platform, Exchange 2007 represents the future of email. By the end of 2008, 50% of organizations that use Exchange are expected to move to Exchange 20071. For most organizations, taking full advantage of Exchange 2007's new features...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2008-07-23
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