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Solarflare to Speak at 2014 STAC Summits: London, Chicago, New York
[October 30, 2014]

Solarflare to Speak at 2014 STAC Summits: London, Chicago, New York


(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) IRVINE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/30/14 -- Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, today announced that Matthew Knight, Technical Marketing Director of Financial Services at Solarflare, will be speaking at three upcoming STAC events in London, Chicago and New York.



On the panel, "Rethinking Network Capture," Matthew Knight, along with Glenn Wright, Systems Architect, DataDirect Networks, will discuss the need for financial firms to rely on network captures for a range of crucial data for trade analytics, compliance and risk management. Historically, capturing the data has been a fairly expensive and rigid process. Knight will look at the opportunities and challenges of data capturing with a more open-systems approach. The panel will also address how firms can leverage expertise from technology providers for capture solutions instead of reengineering the whole systems.

STAC® is a technology research firm that facilitates the STAC Benchmark Council™, a group of leading financial firms and technology vendors. The Council discusses strategic engineering challenges and specifies standard methods for assessing new technologies based on users' requirements. The resulting STAC Benchmarks™ -- together with test tools and research reports from STAC that utilize them -- significantly accelerate technology selection at user firms, such as banks, brokers, exchanges, hedge funds, and other financial organizations.


Below is a short bio of Matthew Knight and details of three upcoming STAC events: Speaker Details Matthew Knight, Technical Marketing Director, Financial Services, Solarflare CommunicationsMatthew Knight is responsible for solutions and technical marketing in the financial services industry. Previously, he served as President of Accensus LLC, an entrepreneurial technology provider for ultra low latency trading platform that couples 10/40 Gbps Ethernet with an Altera Stratix V FPGA and Tilera many-core NPU. Prior to joining Accensus, Matthew was the Head of Labs at DRW Trading Group, a proprietary trading firm that applies advanced trading technology to its low latency and quantitative strategies. Prior to DRW Trading Group, he was a Consultant at STAC Research, developing low-latency benchmarking and testing methodologies for high performance server networking technologies. He holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Nottingham.

STAC Summit in London: Location:Hyatt Andaz Hotel: Great Eastern Room 40 Liverpool Street, London Date:October 30th, 2014 STAC Summit in Chicago: Location:Illinois Institute of Technology Auditorium 565 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL Date:November 4, 2014 STAC Summit New York: Location:New York Marriott Downtown 85 West Street at Albany Street, New York, NY Date:November 13, 2014 About Solarflare Solarflare is the leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that accelerate, monitor and secure network data. The company's solutions are widely used in scale-out server environments such as electronic trading, high performance computing, cloud, virtualization and big data. Solarflare's products are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers, as well as from Dell, HP and IBM. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California, and operates R&D facilities in Cambridge, UK and New Delhi, India. For more information, please visit www.solarflare.com Source: Solarflare

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