International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., said Thursday it had helped Reuters Group PLC develop three software products that provide faster access to its Reuters Market Data System.
The new products are designed for companies that already use IBM's WebSphere platform.
RMDS Enterprise Distributor connects the data system and WebSphere to allow WebSphere applications to access Reuters data. RMDS Multicast Distributor uses IBM multicast technology to speed the distribution of the data to other software. RMDS Internet Finance Platform enables the data to be integrated with Web services and accessed over the Internet.
Steve Mills, a senior vice president and group executive for IBM's software group, said in a press release that these products provide "the muscle to process hundreds of thousands of messages per second with submillisecond latency."
IBM said RMDS Multicast Distributor will be available this year; the other products are available now.
