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World’s Largest Data Centre Inbound dominance having to inspect code.
Planned For Scotland The three top US software vendors listed Other features include Lightweight
Plans to create the world’s largest data (who are also ranked in the top three of the Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
centre near Lockerbie have been unveiled world) generate more than €55bn world- integration, attribute-level submodeling,
today by Scottish firm, Lockerbie Data wide, the equivalent of the entire European object-level compare flags and database
Centres Ltd. software market. US software suppliers management system (DBMS) support for
The £800 million Peelhouses Data Centre make up 75 per cent of companies in the top Sybase IQ 12.5 and Microsoft SQL Server
and Sustainable Village will make the town 20 listed and 30 per cent of the top 100. 2008. For more information on ER/Studio
a leading international centre in I.T. and Japan are another dominant inbound force or Embarcadero’s full suite of modeling
data storage. The development will enshrine making the most of the European market- tools, visit www.embarcadero.com
principles of sustainability and address place, with those Japanese companies listed
economic, social and environmental aspects Demand for Low-Latency
of the locality, the region and Scotland as a Plans to create the world’s Infrastructure
whole. The growth in algorithmic trading, the
Green energy in the form of wind power
and bio-mass will provide a sustainable
largest data centre near proliferation of trading of liquidity, asthe
resulting fragmentation
venues and
well
contribution to the vast energy needs of the as regulatory requirements to demonstrate
development. Waste heat generated by the Lockerbie have been best execution are some of the trends
banks of computer servers will also be driving an ever increasing need for lower
reused to heat the existing town, new village unveiled today by Scottish latency in asset classes such as equities.
and businesses park. Despite some of the worst turmoil since the
In addition to the proposed three million firm, Lockerbie Data Great Crash of 1929, the report “Seeking
square foot (250,000 square metres) high- Low Latency in Financial Markets,” finds
tech Internet Data Centre, the development Centres Ltd. that the fundamental drivers persist and
will include a new high tech commercial indeed, are potentially even accentuated by
space to attract internet companies to the the present volatility.
area, up to 800 new homes of mixed tenure in the EuroSoftware100 forming 32 per cent The report surveys the technology vendor
and a significant number of new jobs in of the total worldwide revenue. However landscape in a range of components of such
construction and in the high tech industry. selling in the European space for them is infrastructure, including market data
more limited. delivery platforms, ticker plants, transaction
UK Retain Strong Presence On www.eurosoftware100.com messaging, complex event processing
European Software Stage (CEP) engines and monitoring, as well as
British firms make up 15 per cent of the top Embarcadero ER/Studio 8.0 connectivity and proximity hosting services.
100 software companies in Europe as Embarcadero Technologies is providing It finds that there are a number of start-ups
compiled by representatives of the data management professionals with a in each segment. Some larger players such
following software associations (European model-driven approach to discovering and as IBM, Oracle and NYSE have been
Software Association, AFDEL, BASDA) communicating the traceability of data in buying up such specialist vendors to grab
and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. the enterprise from its source to its target market share and Datamonitor expects this
With worldwide revenue of €13.3bn (2.5 per destinations with the recently released trend to continue.
cent of the overall revenue generated by the ER/Studio 8.0. ER/Studio includes Visual The report also recognises that some market
entire top 100) These UK companies Data Lineage, a feature that helps data participants, particularly some of the larger
created significantly more wealth than their architects and modelers solve business entities on the sell side, have traditionally
Western European counterparts. The issues around data integration, consolidation preferred to develop their own infrastructure
German and French software companies and regulatory compliance. rather than buy from third parties, but asks
that featured in the EuroSoftware100 It claims to be the first professional data whether headcount reductions as well as
generated €4.3bn and €1.2bn respectively. modeling tool to offer a visual smaller R&D budgets might not actually
In 2008, the European market represented representation of data lineage within an favour the technology vendors in the current
approximately 30 per cent of the overall enterprise, allowing data professionals to market.
worldwide software market generating conduct impact analysis between data www.datamonitor.com
revenues of approximately €56bn. sources and targets, as well as to visually
analyse and document data flow without
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