Reducing Middleware Complexity: Market Data Distribution Case Study

New York December 27, 2003 - Merrill Lynch and GigaSpaces collaborate to prove how a new approach to distributed systems infrastructure utilizing MDDL, Web-Services, Linux, Java and Blades can meet the Real-Time requirements of financial systems. One of the causes of today?s chaotic state of IT systems in Financial Services is the complexity of the underlying distributed systems infrastructure collectively known as Middleware. A new approach, the "Virtual Middleware", can significantly reduce the complexity of the problem, while providing reliability and a considerable cost reduction opportunity. In the work done by Merrill Lynch using GigaSpaces technology, we proved that this new approach can perform impressively in the context of one of hardest Middleware scenarios , the Distribution of Market Data. The implementation was very successful in proving that this new approach also allows leveraging of open-standards and low-cost technologies: Linux,Web-Services, Java, Blades and MDDL as the internal data format.

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