Deutsche Börse launches a trading venue for "outsourced storage and computing capacity"-- in other words a cloud computing resource market, with trading set to begin from beginning 2014.

A joint venture with Zimory GmbH, the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG is, according to the two companies, an international, neutral, secure and transparent trading venue for companies, public sector agencies and organisations either wanting to buy or sell cloud-based resources (in this case storage capacity and computing power).

Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange sets and monitors the standards covering product offering, admission procedure, provider changes and guaranteed purchased capacity, while product standards and technical provisions are developed in cooperation with companies including CloudSigma, Devoteam, Equinix, Host Europe, Leibniz- Rechenzentrum, PROFI AG, T-Systems and TÜV-Rheinland.

Clients can freely choose capacity providers and jurisdiction applied to outsourced data.

"The Deutsche Börse cloud marketplace offers companies a further choice to purchase top secure and tested cloud services," T-Systems says. "Due to the high level of standardisation this will all be done with great speed and efficiency and with up-to-date prices.”

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