“NYSE Euronext is a technology company that operates exchanges around the world. We carefully select technology partners like Solarflare who deliver unparalleled innovation, yet are agile enough to work quickly and effectively with us from development to deployment,” says Andrew Bach, senior vice president of network services for NYSE Euronext. “Solarflare’s EnterpriseOnload is a robust, rigorously tested and fully supported solution that addresses our demanding support and service level requirements. In addition to providing the highest-performance, lowest-latency hardware, Solarflare’s unique and innovative application acceleration software can be deployed quickly without any need to re-write our applications.”

“This is a big win for us. We’re proud to have such a prestigious technology company like NYSE Euronext select Solarflare,” said Russell Stern, CEO at Solarflare. “Many leading companies around the world are using Solarflare’s application-intelligent hardware and software solutions to accelerate network performance in a variety of market segments, including high-frequency trading, big data and social media. Since our solutions are easy to adopt and deploy, we decrease our customers’ time to revenue. Customers can move from the proof of concept testing to a full production deployment in a matter of days.”

Solarflare is the leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O products that bridge the gap between applications and the network, delivering improved performance, increased scalability and higher return on investment. The company’s solutions are widely used in scale-out compute environments, such as high frequency 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, IBM and HP. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California and has an R&D site in Cambridge, UK. For more information, please visit www.solarflare.com

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About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company’s exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext’s equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world’s equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world’s second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.

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