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Missed SpotCloud: Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange is not the industry-first, vendor-neutral cloud marketplace

I already pointed out in my comment on the cloud marketplace from the Deutsche Börse, that this is not the first marketplace of its kind and Reuven Cohen in 2010 was much earlier with SpotCloud. After I read across the press, I have to say that the „Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange“ want to be something it is not: the industry-first, vendor-neutral cloud marketplace for cloud infrastructure resources.

Three years too late!

The marketing of the Deutsche Börse seems to want all the credit which does not belong to them. As interesting the idea of ​​the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange (DBCE) is, one should stick to the truth. Because the marketplace is by far not the industry-first and also vendor-neutral marketplace for cloud infrastructure resources. This crown belongs to Reuven Cohen, who has launched SpotCloud in 2010. In the top SpotCloud has been managed 3,200 suppliers and 100,000 servers worldwide so far.

In addition, SpotCloud also supports OpenStack since April 2011. A point also Stefan Ried has justifiably criticized on DBCE.

So dear marketing of the Deutsche Börse, good idea/ solution, but please stick to the truth. Even the NSA is no longer able to hide something from the public.

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Free GigaOM Research analysts webinar on July 9 about the future of cloud computing in Europe

Anyone who is interested in the future of cloud computing in Europe should register for the international GigaOM Pro analysts webinar on July 9. Moderated by Jo Maitland, Jon Collins, George Anadiotis and I will talk about the opportunities and challenges of the cloud in Europe and countries such as Germany or the UK, thus giving an insight into the cloud computing market in Europe.

Background of the webinar

The European Commission unveiled its “pro cloud” strategy a year ago, hoping to reignite the stagnant economy through innovation. The Commissioner proclaimed boldly that the cloud must “happen not to Europe, but with Europe”. And rightly so. A year later, three GigaOM Research analysts from Europe Jo Collins (Inter Orbis), George Anadiotis (Linked Data Orchestration) and Rene Buest (New Age Disruption) – moderated by Jo Maitland (GigaOM Research) – take a look at who the emerging cloud players are in the region and their edge over U.S. providers. We dig into the issues for cloud buyers in Europe and the untapped opportunities for providers. Can Europe build a vibrant cloud computing ecosystem? That’s a tough question today as U.S. cloud providers still dominant the industry.

The free GigaOM Research analyst roundtable webinar “The Future of Cloud in Europe” taking place on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, at 8 a.m. PT.

Questions to be answered

  • What’s driving cloud opportunities and adoption in Europe?
  • What are the inhibitors to adoption of cloud in Europe?
  • Are there trends and opportunities within specific countries (UK, Germany, peripheral EU countries?)
  • Which European providers show promise and why?
  • What are the untapped opportunities for cloud in Europe?
  • Predictions for the future of cloud in Europe.
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The Deutsche Börse starts its own cloud marketplace to care for standardization and more trust in the cloud

At the beginning of 2014, the Deutsche Börse will step into the area of cloud marketplaces and offer their own broker for infrastructure-as-a-service under the brand „Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG“. As the basis technology, the company relies on the German cloud management provider Zimory with which they also founded a joint venture.

Independent cloud marketplace for infrastructure services

The cloud marketplace will start in early 2014 and serve as a marketplace for cloud storage and infrastructure resources. In order to realize the technical side, the Deutsche Börse has established a joint venture with the German cloud management provider Zimory. Thus, Zimory will have the responsibility to ensure that all customers can seamlessly access the cloud resources they purchase.

With the cloud market place, both companies focus on the public sector as well as research institutions, which require more infrastructure resources such as memory and computing power on demand, or even have excess capacity and would like to offer in the marketplace.

The Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange is organized as an international and vendor-neutral cloud-marketplace and is responsible for standards such as product offerings, the admission process, changing suppliers and the warranties of the purchased resources. Customers should be able to choose their providers freely and thereby be able to decide in which jurisdiction the data is stored. For this, the specifications and standards as well as the technical provisioning is aligned in close collaboration with the participants of the marketplace. As potential partners, the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange named cloud providers from the traditional IT sector and national and international medium-sized enterprises and large corporations. These include inter alia CloudSigma, Devoteam, Equinix, Host Europe, Leibniz data centre, Profi AG, T-Systems and the TÜV Rheinland.

Comment: An independent and standardized marketplace provides more confidence in the cloud

A cloud marketplace as the Deutsche Börse is offering is basically nothing new. The first marketplace of its kind was launched as Spotcloud by Reuven Cohen. Even the Amazon Web Services provides the ability to trade, based on their Spot Instances, with virtual instances. However, it is a proprietary marketplace. And that is the crucial advantage for the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange, it is vendor independent. Which certifies a greater range of resources and on the other hand more confidence by the dependency is resolved to a single vendor. Another credit of trust the Deutsche Börse provides itself. Those is trading in its context all along with securities, energy and other raw materials as virtual goods. Why shouldn’t they do that with virtual IT resources. The Deutsche Börse is therefore the face to the outside and take care for the organizational safety and awareness, whereas Zimory is responsible for the technical execution in the background.

Another important fact, which maybe a key to success, is the topic of standardization. Since the beginning of the cloud the discussion is on „standards in the cloud“ and who will care for THE standard. With the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange we maybe have found a serious initiative from the industry, which will ensure that there will soon be a uniform cloud standard. This of course depends on the appropriate involvement of the cloud provider. Nevertheless, the first partner ahead CloudSigma, Equinix and T-Systems (is also using OpenStack in some of their services) show their interest in this direction. In this context it is to be seen how the open cloud community is set up for this purpose.

In the first version the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange will be a pure marketplace for cloud infrastructure. A next evolutionary step should be to take also external value-added services within the marketplace, with which the infrastructure resources can be used effectively to motivate developers using the resources to create new web applications and backend software for mobile apps. Furthermore, the market place should be set up as a true cloud broker.