Azul Systems (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, and Pontus Networks, a specialist in improving the performance of software in financial institutions, have launched an Azul Zing®-based edition of PontusVision Thread Manager (PVTM), Pontus’s flagship product which reduces capital and operational IT infrastructure expenditures by improving the way software threads run on specific CPU cores. In a recent benchmark study, the combination of Zing and PVTM helped an investment bank improve the latency of its FX pricing system without changing a single line of code, by reducing the pricing system’s peak latency from receipt of a raw market data tick to sending a FIX market data snapshot to clients by 20X.
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