HP hardware access large stock markets

The top two exchanges in New York and London with optimized server systems and storage devices have achieved the fastest data transfer and distribution rates in the world today.

HP technology used to deploy the data distribution application has helped the Infolect market of London's stock market - which emits 20 million daily announcements of about 100,000 transaction points in over 100 countries around the world - only 2 second data latency. Infolect now operates on an expandable hardware platform, built with 100 HP ProLiant servers located at 3 different points in London. This application runs in Microsoft .NET environment and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 software.

In Hong Kong, leading securities brokerage firm Tai Fook Securities also experienced significant business growth thanks to the HP Integrity server platform using Itanium 2 processor, running HP-UX 11iv2. HP server infrastructure now allows increased response time for online customer transactions at Tai Fook 7 times faster.

In the framework of the 2007 IT Application Conference in Finance (ICT Finance '07), which has just taken place in Hanoi, HP also introduced a series of solutions towards ensuring continuity, consolidation and high control , compatibility and security for business activities in this service sector.