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31 Aug 2010	Kx's New Release Allows Intelligent Compression, Reduces Latency, and is Faster Than Ever Kx Systems has announced today the release of kdb+ v2.7. This version comes with several enhancements, of which intelligent file compression, enhanced memory management, and a performance increase of up to 20% are the most significant. With constantly growing data volumes, the costs of storage and regulatory requirements are increasingly important for global financial institutions. more +
21 Jun 2010	STAC Releases New Market Data Benchmark with Results from Kx and Oracle The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®) today released STAC-M3TM Benchmark results for a solution from Kx Systems and Oracle Corporation. STAC-M3 provides a common measuring methodology for solutions that manage large timeseries datasets (tick databases). The measurement standard is currently a community proposal developed by the STAC Benchmark Council. more +
12 Apr 2010	Kx Systems Recognized as Laureate by the Computerworld Honors Program This year’s Honorees will be commemorated during the 22nd Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards Evening on June 7, 2010 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. For over two decades, Computerworld Honors has acknowledged those individuals and organizations that have used information technology to benefit society. more +
12 Jan 2010	Kx Top Management will be in Shanghai for TradeTech at the End of January Demonstrating their continuing commitment to both China and the wider economic marketplace across Asia, Kx Systems, a leading global financial technology company, will be represented at a major financial markets conference, TradeTech China, by their CEO, Janet Lustgarten, their CTO, Charles Skelton, and their Head of Asia, Chris Burke. more +
16 Nov 2009	Kx Announces ‘Growth via Partnership’ Strategy for Asia Kx has announced increased commitment to the Asian market, which it perceives to be an area of huge potential growth for its ultra-high speed data solutions. Kx’s tier-one banking clients initially prompted the company to increase its presence in Asia and since then word has spread to other institutions of the power and speed that Kx technology brings to trading rooms. more +
14 Sep 2009	Kx Delivers Nanosecond Timestamps and More in New Version of kdb+ Kx Systems has announced today the release of version 2.6 of kdb+. The most significant feature of this release is the addition of nanosecond timestamps as built-in data types. Kx is the first to provide the capability to work with such a high degree of accuracy and to easily identify unique events, both of which are becoming important in low-latency environments. more +
21 Apr 2009	Kx Doubles its Speed on Intel’s New “Nehalem” Xeon® 5500 Processor Kx Systems has worked closely with Intel® to run a series of performance tests on Intel's new Xeon® 5500 ("Nehalem") chipset and has confirmed major improvements in speed. Kx and Intel have a long-standing relationship, with each firm benefiting from the other's expertise in multi-core processing. The Xeon® 5500 processor is an excellent illustration of Intel's advanced multi-core technology enabling Kx's true multi-core kdb+ database to run significantly faster. more +
11 Feb 2009	Kx Expands into Asia Kx Systems, the leader in high-performance database and timeseries analysis, has opened an Asian office to be headed by Chris Burke. Chris has many years’ experience in IT, where his primary focus has been on financial and mathematical programming in the banking and insurance sectors. He started at IP Sharp Associates, working in Toronto and Zurich on financial databases and global risk management systems. more +
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