Is the cloud exchange concept ready for primetime? Deutsche Boerse thinks so.
July 2, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: David Meyer.
Financial services giant the Deutsche Boerse Group, which runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange among other things, is about to make a pretty serious leap into the cloud computing space. The German company said on Tuesday that it will launch a global, vendor-neutral marketplace for compute and storage capacity in 2014.
The idea of a cloud marketplace is not new, but there aren’t many serious players out there yet. Deutsche Boerse’s take is very much aimed at the corporate and medium-to-large enterprise market, as well as the public sector, and it uses infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud management software from Berlin-based Zimory to connect buyers and sellers through open APIs (the two companies are treating this as a joint venture)…
Zimory CEO Rüdiger Baumann, who discussed cloud trading markets at our Structure:Europe conference last year, told me today that the Deutsche Boerse Cloud Exchange would make it as easy to trade IaaS capacity as it is to trade energy or securities:..
Read more from the source @ http://gigaom.com/2013/07/02/is-the-cloud-exchange-concept-ready-for-primetime-deutsche-boerse-thinks-so/