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In an interesting development German based Deutsche Börse has announced a trading venue for cloud computing resources starting in the beginning of 2014. Deutsche Börse’s press release noted ‘the primary users for the new trading venue will be companies, public sector agencies and also organisations such as research institutes that need additional storage and computing resources, or have excess capacity that they want to offer on the market.’

Deutsche Börse noted this was the first international, vendor-neutral marketplace of this type, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange will set and monitor standards regarding the product offering, admission procedure, changes of provider and guaranteed purchased capacity.

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