DGAP-News: Photo Release -- Xignite Joins NASDAQ OMX FinQloud to Enhance Data Storage and Computing Resources
(firmenpresse) - The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
04.11.2013 15:53
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First Market Data Vendor to Join Financial Services Cloud Ecosystem
NEW YORK, 2013-11-04 15:53 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Xignite, Inc. a leading provider of financial market data cloud solutions,
announced today that they will use NASDAQ OMX FinQloud, a cloud computing
platform designed exclusively for the financial services sector and powered by
Amazon Web Services (AWS). Xignite will leverage FinQloud for all storage and
elastic computing resources used by its Market Data Cloud platform, including
its financial data APIs, and its Market Data Distribution and Enterprise Data
Distribution solutions.
A photo accompanying this release is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=21997
'NASDAQ OMX uses the Xignite platform for their NASDAQ Data-on-Demand
historical stock quote service, and we have large financial institutions who
are using our Market Data Cloud platform to develop private financial data
clouds, so the decision to partner with NASDAQ OMX FinQloud was an easy one,'
said Stephane Dubois, Xignite CEO and Founder. 'We welcome NASDAQ and Amazon's
initiative to make cloud computing an increasingly reliable and secure solution
that even our largest bank, broker and fund manager customers can trust and
rely upon.'
'FinQloud provides Xignite and its clients with a highly scalable environment
for storing, processing and serving large amounts of market data,' said Julia
Sears, Associate Vice President of FinQloud at NASDAQ OMX. 'It is our mission
to continue supporting Xignite as they provide customers the ability to
leverage their market data distribution cloud services, further expanding the
FinQloud ecosystem. Xignite's move to FinQloud represents a key step forward in
transforming how the financial services industry stores and distributes market
data from the cloud.'
About Xignite:
Xignite, Inc. is the leading provider of Market Data Cloud solutions. Xignite
offers more than 40 financial APIs providing real-time, historical, and
reference data across all asset classes and fulfills more than 6 billion
requests per month. Xignite CloudAPIs power mobile financial applications,
websites, and front-, middle- and back-office functions for more than 1000
clients worldwide, including Wells Fargo, Computershare, Investopedia, Personal
Capital, Charles Schwab, Seeking Alpha, Stocktwits, Starbucks, and NetSuite.
The company also powers private-label, on-demand data distribution solutions
for exchanges and data vendors, including NASDAQ OMX. For more information,
visit http://www.xignite.com.
About FinQloud:
NASDAQ OMX FinQloud, powered by Amazon Web Services, is a cloud computing
platform designed exclusively for the financial services sector. FinQloud
offers a suite of storage and compute services, including R3 which combines AWS
cloud computing expertise with enhanced security from NASDAQ OMX to provide
cost-effective and efficient management, storage and processing of financial
data. FinQloud helps firms significantly reduce the operational costs and
complexities associated with data and infrastructure management - enabling more
effective deployment of scarce resources.
A product of NASDAQ OMX's unique financial technology domain expertise and
Amazon's flexible and cost-effective cloud infrastructure, R3 enables financial
market participants to benefit from the economic and performance advantages of
cloud computing, in a manner designed to comply with regulatory and security
requirements. Flexible, reliable and highly scalable, FinQloud is fully-managed
and designed to immediately help firms reduce their technology burden, and
refocus resources on revenue driving activities, even as data volumes and
regulatory initiatives continually rise. To learn more visit
www.nasdaqomx.com/FinQloud or contact FinQloud(at)nasdaqomx.com
About NASDAQ OMX:
The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels
economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of
a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the
U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 26 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central
securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income,
derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more
than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.99%
uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and
emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities
transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the
benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed
companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we
give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world
takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn
more, visit nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter
(http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made
under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about
FinQloud and NASDAQ OMX's other products and offerings. We caution that these
statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ
materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other
factors beyond NASDAQ OMX's control. These factors include, but are not limited
to factors detailed in NASDAQ OMX's annual report on Form 10-K, and periodic
reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no
obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements.
NDAQG
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CONTACT: Xignite Media Contact:
Kerry Langstaff
+1 (650) 242-4466 (office)
+1 (408) 472-6433 (mobile)
klangstaff(at)xignite.com
NASDAQ OMX Media Contact:
Robert Madden
+1 (646) 441-5045 (office)
+1 (347) 740-0191 (mobile)
Robert.Madden(at)NASDAQOMX.com
News Source: NASDAQ OMX
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