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Seeing Through the Fog: Closing the Visibility Gap in Solace Messaging with Corvil Network Analytics

Product That's what Corvil brings to Solace environments: clarity when the architecture gets complex and the performance issues get subtle.
Scott Peerbolte Scott Peerbolte
Thought Leadership

AI-Ready Network Observability at 200Gbps

Pico and Dell launch the Corvil 12000, delivering 200Gbps sustained network capture and real-time analytics: …

Ken Jinks Ken Jinks
Thought Leadership

Modernizing Rates Trading: Why the Future Belongs to Low-Latency Infrastructure

Rates markets are undergoing the same electronification equities saw a decade ago. Pico Redline's feed handle…

Ian McIntyre Ian McIntyre
Thought Leadership

Pico in 2025: Scaling Network Observability, Trading Software, and Market Services

In 2025, Pico marked its 16th year delivering a deterministic observability layer for financial markets, from…

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Pico Team
Thought Leadership

Pico to Expand Client Visibility Around Exchange Driven Initiatives

Pico managed a record 593 Exchange Driven Initiatives through Q3 2025 and is enhancing its client portal to g…

Phil McCausland Phil McCausland
Thought Leadership

Speculative Triggering and Surveillance in Trading Systems

Speculative triggering, initiating trading requests before all data is serialized, sits at the intersection o…

Matt Davey Matt Davey
Thought Leadership

Pico Raw Historical Data, Providing Solid Foundations for Real World Backtesting

This blog emphasizes backtesting's importance in developing trading strategies and confirming profitability. …

Ian McIntyre Ian McIntyre
Thought Leadership

US Equities Markets – 2024 & 2025 Brings Much Change to the Trading Landscape

Does anyone else question how many more times they will hear in the news that yet another US equities trading…

Ian McIntyre Ian McIntyre
Thought Leadership

Historic Market Volumes Amid Tariff Turbulence

Using Corvil Analytics, the Pico Operations team have identified microbursts and bottlenecks in the global sy…

Matt Davey Matt Davey
Thought Leadership

Enterprise Observability: Why Network Visibility Must Extend Beyond the Trading Floor

Financial institutions are expanding network observability beyond the trading desk to retail, wealth manageme…

Ken Jinks Ken Jinks
Announcement

Reflecting on Our Continued Growth in 2024

As we welcome 2025, it's time to reflect on an incredible year of growth, innovation, and collaboration.

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Pico Team
Thought Leadership

Discover Corvil Analytics 10.1 Today

Corvil Analytics 10.1 delivers major enhancements across network observability, UX, Ethernet CRC error analyt…

Graham Ahearne Graham Ahearne
Product

Corvil AppAgent and the x86 Timestamp Counter

Corvil AppAgent is a software library that generates highly accurate timestamps in their application, and to …

Raymond Russell Raymond Russell
Thought Leadership

Exchange Driven Initiatives: 2024 Mid-Year Review

Rate of Exchange mandated changes continue to be high in 2024. Recap changes delivered to date and outlook fo…

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Pico Team
Product

Want to get the most from your Corvil investment? Become Corvil Certified!

Explore our Corvil Analytics certification courses to ensure you''re getting the most from your Corvil deploy…

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Pico Team
Thought Leadership

Data to Action: Enhancing Productivity with Corvil Analytics and AI

Discover how Corvil Analytics and AI technology transform data into actionable insights, enhancing performanc…

Ken Jinks Ken Jinks
Product

Corvil Actions: Level up your ad-hoc data analysis toolkit!

Corvil Actions are your ever-evolving analytics Corvil toolkit, designed to help you automate and streamline …

Graham Ahearne Graham Ahearne
Thought Leadership

Pico empowers clients to modernize trading in US Treasuries, are you missing the big opportunity?

Explore how Pico is transforming US Treasuries trading with cutting-edge, low-latency technology and infrastr…

Ian McIntyre Ian McIntyre
Thought Leadership

MSCI Index Rebalance - Market Data Volume Analysis using Corvil Analytics

Pico monitors market data volumes following the MSCI rebalance using Corvil Analytics, and has quantified the…

Alex Russell Alex Russell
Thought Leadership

OPRA 96-line Expansion: The Big Boost in Latency and Infrastructure Requirements

Pico monitors OPRA market data using Corvil Analytics and has quantified the increase in microburst and reduc…

Matt Davey Matt Davey
Announcement

Reflecting on 2023: Celebrating Milestones and Gratitude for Partnership with Our Clients

As 2024 approaches, we are eager to continue our journey, hand in hand with our partners and clients. Your co…

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Pico Team
Thought Leadership

Call Interrupted: How to Stop VoIP Outages in their Tracks

A real-world example highlighting our unique capabilities around capturing and analyzing voice system data, b…

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Pico Team
Announcement

Pico and OneChronos: A Partnership Driving Fintech Growth

The world of financial technology is a fast-paced environment, constantly evolving, innovating, and providing…

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Pico Team
Product

Corvil Support for Monitoring Encrypted Eurex and Xetra Trading Sessions

Learn how Deutsche Börse is introducing mandatory encryption for trading interfaces, and how Corvil can help …

Matt Davey Matt Davey
Announcement

A Day in the Life at Pico

The Pico Women's Network (PWN) was launched in early 2020 to inspire, empower and connect women throughout Pi…

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Pico Team
Thought Leadership

As Derivatives Liquidity Moves, Firms Need to Be Ready

In the changing global landscape of today's derivatives markets, it is essential that firms have the appropri…

Emma Wheeler Emma Wheeler
Product

Analytic Insights into trading performance using Corvil as a Data Source

In high-speed trading environments, some questions about performance and trading outcomes can only be answere…

Fergal Toomey Fergal Toomey
Announcement

Pico Leverages Latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors to reach 100G Real-time Analytics For Financial Markets

Our first impression of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors Ice Lake with Corvil Analytics is exciting and…

Donal O''Sullivan Donal O''Sullivan
Thought Leadership

As Asia's Markets Come of Age, Market Ecosystems Need to Keep Pace

Hong Kong complements a large number of Asian colocation centres for Pico, including Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok a…

Roland Hamann Roland Hamann
Thought Leadership

FIX Transaction Performance Analysis: Illuminating the Darkness

Learn why FIX timestamp logs can keep you in the dark when optimizing infrastructure performance for better t…

Raymond Russell Raymond Russell
Thought Leadership

Appliance Performance: Looking Inward to Maximize Value

Appliance insights that empower users to focus their analytics resources on the things that matter

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

Leveraging AI and Algorithms for Predictive Anomaly Detection

A place for AI and deep learning in optimizing infrastructure performance is undisputed – the challenge in a …

Fergal Toomey Fergal Toomey
Thought Leadership

Neutralizing Infrastructure Performance Anomalies in Electronic Trading

The first of two blogs exploring why Corvil's Intelligence Hub is uniquely capable of discerning the differen…

Fergal Toomey Fergal Toomey
Thought Leadership

Network Analytics: The Best Place to Get Started with Venue Analysis

Implementing advanced, real-time venue analysis and a new view of transaction quality is closer than you thin…

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

Ending the Garble: Three Reasons Corvil Wins at VoIP Analytics

When you upgrade your telephony system, don't forget a voice quality monitoring solution.

David Betts David Betts
Thought Leadership

Why Quality of Market Data Matters More in Volatile Markets

Accurate market data is vital for trading advantage, so how do you stop 'bursty' connections from disrupting …

Voyta Karas Voyta Karas
Thought Leadership

Corvil's Timely Solution to CAT NMS Plan Clock-Sync Compliance

The clock is ticking for broker-dealers who will have to report their trades with clock-synced timestamps to …

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

On the Nature of Accuracy

An in-depth look at the meaning of accuracy in Machine Learning terms, how it can be measured, and what makes…

Michael Fenton Michael Fenton
Thought Leadership

A Golden Age for Machine Learning

A brief look at how today's machine learning approaches can feast like kings on Corvil's high-quality data fr…

Michael Fenton Michael Fenton
Thought Leadership

Ease of Corvil Integration Delivers More Value More Quickly

The business case for Corvil is made more compelling with Info-Tech's report on network monitoring naming us …

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

The Healthy Appetite for AI in Financial Markets

Foreign exchange trading and MIFID II dominated our conversations at the Stockholm conference

Fergal Toomey Fergal Toomey
Thought Leadership

Multi-Purpose Monitoring Makes Corvil a Winner

Users ranking Corvil #1 for product strategy in the recent Info-Tech report is a powerful endorsement for our…

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

A Different Type of KYC: Know Your Counterparty

Intelligence Hub delivers on the need for better counterparty intelligence

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

Cloudy with a Chance of TCP Drops

Making full use of network data for IT operations depends on scalable capture and reassembly of TCP streams i…

Raymond Russell Raymond Russell
Thought Leadership

Helping Firms Realize the Full Value from their Market Data Spend

Obtaining accurate and timely information is business critical for electronic trading - and something that Co…

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

The Next Wave of Trading Infrastructure Analytics

Connecting infrastructure behaviors with business outcomes with machine learning analytics was the topic of C…

Jasmine Noel Jasmine Noel
Thought Leadership

Best Practices in Timekeeping for Compliance

Discussions from the Intelligent Trading Technology panel "Best practice timestamping and clock synchronizati…

Raymond Russell Raymond Russell
Thought Leadership

Time to value assured with Corvil

New installation programs help our customers quickly realize the benefits of machine-time intelligence.

Scott Peerbolte Scott Peerbolte
Thought Leadership

Schrodinger's Cats

Serendipity as the source of innovation. How Corvil has learned to think inside and outside the box at the sa…

Shane Minogue Shane Minogue

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