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