Computerworld: Q&A: Chicago Exchange CIO Says IT Helps Keep Up with Rivals

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"Are you looking at increasing processing capability? We moved over to your normal commodity, Linux-based Intel processors. I'd like to say there's both horizontal scalability and vertical scalability that we need to address. If you trade two products or multiple products, then you can put one product on one server and another product on another server, and in theory, that's parallel processing. That's what I would call horizontal processing..."

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