Greg Barr, Author at Solace

Solace to Extend Its Global Leadership in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Open Data Movement

Ottawa, Ontario, September 8, 2017 – Solace, the leading provider of open data movement technology, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Craig Betts, the Company’s founder, as Executive Chairman of the Board. Leslie (Les) Rechan, former President and CEO at Halogen Software, will join the leadership team as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rechan has also been appointed a Board Director. In his new role, Mr. Betts will devote his full time to customers and partners, while driving the overall vision and strategy for the company. Mr. Rechan will work closely with Mr. Betts to lead strategy execution and business operations.

“I am proud to welcome Les to Solace as CEO,” said Craig Betts. “I have known and admired Les since he and his family moved to Ottawa over a decade ago. With over 30 years of industry experience, his operational expertise is unparalleled, making him the ideal person to step into the CEO role as we continue to grow in our increasingly cloud-focused business.… Read the rest

Cloud-Friendly Messaging Platform Will Enable Migration to Modern Service-Based Architecture

Ottawa, Ontario, June 20, 2017 – Solace, the leading provider of open data movement technology, and TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, announced today that the company has deployed Solace technology to upgrade their messaging infrastructure and implement a modern service-based trading architecture.

“The size of our client base and breadth of our service offering have both grown significantly since TP ICAP was formed through Tullett Prebon’s acquisition of ICAP’s global brokering business in December,” said Matt Dobson, Global Head of Technical Architecture, TP ICAP. “We believed that to continue providing exemplary service to our clients we needed to migrate to a service-based architecture, and knew we needed to upgrade our messaging infrastructure to support that change. Solace has exceeded all of our expectations.”

TP ICAP chose Solace’s Virtual Message Router and SolCache as together they uniquely support the wide variety of exchange patterns required as part of the company’s intermediary services, internal and external trade execution solutions, and data offerings.

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