Toomre Capital Markets - Partners

Toomre Capital Markets LLC enjoys strong relationships with leading organizations in their respective fields of expertise. For further information on each of these TCM client/partner organizations, follow the links provided below:

• Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
• Coral8, Inc.
• Duff & Phelps - Corporate Value Consulting
• Fractal:Edge Limited
• G2 Systems, LLC
• Harrison Group
• Incremax
• Microsoft Corporation
• M.I.T. Auto ID LabOch-Ziff Capital Management Group
• Q Capital Strategies LLC
• QuIC Financial Technologies, Inc.
• Strategic Directives
• Streambase Systems, Inc.

An article acknowledging the great AMD 4Q 2005 earnings release goes here.

Streambase Systems and Advanced Micro Devices are both clients of Toomre Capital Markets’ risk technology services. Earlier this week, both companies jointly announced that Streambase’s flagship Stream Processing Engine is now capable of running in 64-bit mode, fully taking advantage of advanced 64-bit high performance computer chips like the AMD Opteron™ processor. As noted in this previous TCM post, systems based upon AMD Opteron processors enjoy a highly scalable architecture that delivers next-generation performance with twice the power efficiency of Intel chips (according to Sun Microsystems’ Andy Bechtolsheim in eWeek). With this Streambase software release, enterprises can effectively eliminate latency in processing real-time data streams while penetrating the physical barrier that limits applications to 4 gigabytes (GB) when using 32-bit systems. As the press release StreamBase Extends Enterprise Adoption with Accelerated Real-Time, 64-Bit Performance Gains states, “enterprises using StreamBase can react to real-time data faster and execute right-time business decisions that capitalize on opportunities and reduce risks.”

Streambase and AMD make a great combination in solving real-time Enterprise Risk Management

issues and improving Economic Value Added (“EVA”). Toomre Capital Markets LLC assists enterprises to customize these tools to measure, monitor and manage each individual organization’s specific risk portfolio. Please contact Lars Toomre at TCM, Bill Hobbib at Streambase Systems or Dio Dipasupil at AMD for further information on how your organization can move to world-class, real-time Enterprise Risk Management

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As summarized in this article entitled Spending for Compliance and Corporate Governance to Account for 10-15 Percent of an Enterprise's 2006 IT Budget (CRM Today), increased corporate spending for compliance and corporate governance is having a significant impact on IT budgets, according to Gartner, Inc. According to preliminary results from Gartner's 2005 Financial Compliance Management Survey, IT financial compliance management spending will increase to between 10 percent and 15 percent of IT budgets in 2006, up from less than 5 percent in 2004.

This is a significant IT spending increase and bodes well for technologies that efficiently process streams of information in such areas as limits control, pre-trade compliance and operational risk applications. Toomre Capital Markets LLC consults with several risk management technological leaders that are worthy of further investigation in these areas, including QuIC Financial Technologies, Streambase Systems and CXO Systems. Please contact Lars Toomre or Aldon Hynes at Toomre Capital Markets LLC for further information.

The November 14, 2005 edition of The Wall Street Journal includes a front-page article by Don Clark entitled “ Power-Hungry Computers Put Data Centers in Bind.” This article details how the newest computer hardware – particularly the servers that run most business programs and Web sites – draw too much electricity and generate too much heat.

As Toomre Capital Markets noted back on October 12, 2005 in the post “AMD and Opteron Keep Gaining on Intel,” the AMD Opteron chips are twice as power efficient as the Intel server chips. The AMD Opteron server chips are a key way of reducing heat load in a data center while continuing to serve the multitude of Monte Carlo simulations that are part of modern Enterprise Risk Management

measurement and monitoring.