REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- News Facts:

• Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced that SURFACExchange, a leading derivatives exchange operating within the global currency derivatives markets, has standardized on Informatica Ultra Messaging as the low-latency and high throughput application communications backbone of the world's first high-performance FX derivatives trading platform.
• By providing multicast protocol capabilities and ultra low-latency, highly available and flexible messaging across SURFACExchange's entire electronic trading platform, Informatica's high-performance Ultra Messaging middleware provides the fast-growing firm with a significant competitive advantage in the FX derivatives marketplace.
• SURFACExchange uses Informatica Ultra Messaging, part of the Informatica Platform, to seamlessly integrate 24 trading process components, including requests for quotes, orders, trades, execution/assignment and settlement.
• The direct peer-to-peer communication architecture of Informatica Ultra Messaging eliminates the need for centralized message brokers that would otherwise increase message delivery latency and impact reliability and scalability.
• In addition to helping power optimal trade execution performance, the Informatica  messaging solution is also enabling SURFACExchange to:

• Support very high frequency FX trading strategies - SURFACExchange is able to easily handle the high message throughput requirements of high frequency trading along with increasing FX market pricing volumes.
• Increase system resiliency/availability - By operating in a hot/hot zero latency failover configuration, Informatica Ultra Messaging helps SURFACExchange ensure 24x7 service delivery and platform uptime for its clients.
• Reduce infrastructure costs - Informatica Ultra Messaging's efficient product architecture and operational capabilities help SURFACExchange significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs.

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• "We didn't want to re-invent the messaging platform for high frequency - we needed it to support massive throughput from day one," said Evgeni Mitkov, chief executive officer, SURFACExchange. "With Informatica Ultra Messaging, we're recording as low as 15 sub-millisecond latency, which gives SURFACExchange a real edge in the FX derivatives marketplace."
• "SURFACExchange exemplifies how organizations standardizing on Informatica Ultra Messaging can in one sweep optimize the performance, resilience and cost structure of their messaging architectures leading to a competitive advantage," said Mark Mahowald, general manager, Messaging Business Unit, Informatica. "SURFACExchange is revolutionizing high frequency FX derivatives trading and their choice of Informatica as the messaging backbone is a key success factor in their drive."

Additional Links

• Success Story: SURFACExchange Standardizes on Informatica Ultra Messaging to Underpin First Electronic FX Derivatives Trading Platform

About Informatica

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