To bid for a massive U.S. government contract, Sungard has teamed up with Google to build a prototype cloud system that could store six years’ worth of U.S. stock and financial trading data and let regulators and stock traders scrutinize this mountain of information.
The work is being done to compete for a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission contract, called the Consolidate Auditing Trail (CAT)….
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