TradingView, an online social network for stock market investment analysis and education, announced Dec. 22 that it is using cloud computing to make the site the ultimate resource for investors to learn and research investments, Stan Bokov, COO of TradingView, said, “The site offers a unique and simple way to share live charts instantly with technical analysis ideas, bringing investors together and helping people learn more about the markets. Taking advantage of the latest advancements in cloud computing, the idea of bringing desktop-quality charts through any browser to people around the world is now a reality with TradingView.” The goal of the site is to help its users become better investors by doing research on free charts, learning from other users, and practicing making predictions. TradingView leverages cloud computing to allow its users to post ideas on interactive charts and share them with the rest of the TradingView community and on Twitter. The shared content continues to remain interactive and the charts update to automatically reflect the latest market changes. Other users are also able to study the posted charts, comment and agree or disagree on the analysis, share them with other forums such as blogs, news sites, Facebook, and Twitter, and even copy the content into a separate chart for further study and analysis. TradingView’s focus is to provide a global hub for market commentary and information sharing without restriction in a user-friendly environment. Cloud computing provides them with a viable platform on which do that. (TradingView, 614-569-0345, sbokov@multicharts.com.)

Misys, a software and services provider for banking treasury and capital markets, Dec. 20 announced that they have chosen iomart Hosting, a UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider, to provide a cloud computing platform to help Misys consolidate its IT infrastructure in the UK and host their European data center. Phil Davies, Director IS for Misys UK & EMEA, explained the decision to create an exclusive relationship with iomart this way, “We operate on the basis of a 'one-Misys' culture and the decision to go with a single direct provider of hosting is another symbol of that ethos.  We already had a relationship with iomart Hosting and were impressed. The decision to use them as our sole host has proved the right one. As soon as the relationship was formalised, the benefits were tangible. There was an immediate improvement in the stability of our equipment and complete engagement with our business objectives.” iomart Hosting owns and manages its secure data center network with teams that manage and monitor customers’ mission-critical systems 24/7.  Since the consolidation of its hosting has proved successful for Misys in the UK, the company will be considered for other key locations globally in the future. “This round the clock support fits in completely with our global presence,” said Davies. “Our IT teams can contact the data center night or day wherever they are around the world.” (iomart Hosting, +44 (0) 207 448 4600, http://www.iomarthosting.com.)

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Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Nov. 29 announced that Deutsche Bank won its “Conquering the Cloud Challenge,” a competition to identify best practices for cloud and data center solutions. The winners represented companies in Asia, Europe and South America showcasing innovative and relevant best practices for implementing cloud-based solutions and its global reach in IT transformation and were selected by a team of industry experts, as well as members of the public. The German investment bank, which has a substantial presence in the City of London, has developed an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) development platform, due to go live this month. The aim of the new platform is to enable developers to rapidly create and deploy virtual environments, running up to 2,000 VMs at any one time. These are supported by a variety of collaboration and knowledge management systems. The VMs are available for development in Microsoft Windows, Unix, Solaris and Linux environments.

(Open Data Center Alliance, www.opendatacenteralliance.org.)

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Xignite, a global market data cloud provider, is the first and only data vendor to provide bond data on-demand via the cloud.  The cloud creates a level of transparency that offers investment advisors, hedge fund managers, brokers, and other financial services professionals the insights and flexibility needed to respond to rapidly changing market conditions.

Xignite’s award-winning cloud platform is trusted and utilized by firms around the globe, including banks, institutional money managers, fund managers, and hedge funds. “We are realizing lightning fast time-to-value for financial services applications that live and breathe on bond data,” said Stephane Dubois, CEO and founder of Xignite. “Xignite’s new global bond data cloud service will allow financial services professionals to adapt strategies to the volatile market on-the-fly.”  (Xignite

Maria Canul, 650/288-1184, mcanul@xignite.com).

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