And financial companies, banks, hedge funds etc. Even the most "boring" financial companies (actuaries, insurance companies) process huge amounts of data where

And financial companies, banks, hedge funds etc. Even the most "boring" financial companies (actuaries, insurance companies) process huge amounts of data where performance becomes critical. We have a data base that gathers about a 5GB of market data a day and we have to run algorithms to analyse the data and analyse the behaviour of our system. Efficient algorithms become very important.