Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG aims to create a vendor-neutral marketplace for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud products. By standardizing IaaS offerings and enabling exchange trading of computing power and data storage, Deutsche Börse hopes to increase efficiency and lower costs for both providers and consumers. The exchange will facilitate spot trading of IaaS resources beginning in early 2014, with the eventual goal of adding derivative trading in 2015 to allow hedging of future demand.
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Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange - Presentation
1. Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG
First vendor-neutral platform for IaaS cloud
computing products
June 2013
2. Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG
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What if Deutsche Börse AG
standardised IaaS products
and turned computing power and
data storage into a commodity?
3. Agenda
1 The role of exchanges today
Example: European Energy Exchange (EEX)
2 IaaS resources as an exchange-traded product
3 Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG – offering and functional overview
4 Contact details
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4. Electricity traded at the european energy exchange –
the first artificial product that’s traded on international exchanges
producer transformer consumer
resource production resource refinement resource usage
European Energy
Exchange
Why do market participants trade on an exchange instead of negotiating bilaterally?
Electricity value chain
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5. EEX serves as central trading intermediary…
standardised
trading platform
central clearing
intermediary
settlement
processes
standardised products
neutral price
determination
financial fulfilment
transparency
legal certainty
market surveillance
Electricity traded on an exchange
EEX
As neutral intermediaries, exchanges provide standardised services, processes and products for trading.
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6. … which connects all parties involved in the value chain.
price hedging
fungible commodity
availability
sales channel
fundraising
opportunities
risk sharing /
mitigation
future price
indications
EEX
Electricity traded on an exchange – benefit examples
Exchanges ensure market efficiency as sellers and buyers profit from strategic and infrastructural advantages.
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7. Agenda
1 The role of exchanges today
Example: European Energy Exchange (EEX)
2 IaaS resources as an exchange-traded product
3 Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG – offering and functional overview
4 Contact details
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8. Participants at Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange
cloud provider cloud broker cloud consumer
resource production resource refinement resource usage
Why would market participants want to trade on an marketplace instead of negotiating bilaterally?
IaaS products value chain
Deutsche Börse
Cloud Exchange
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9. Cloud Exchange standards:
products
legal
SLAs
settlement & monitoring
Shorter time-to-market when trading via
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DBCEworkflow
1. admission
requirements
2. neutral cloud
architecture
software
setup
Any seller is able to
contract with any buyer
and vice versa.
on-demand resources
contracting
in less than 60 seconds
bilateralworkflow
old
1. RFI/ RFP 2. legal
assessment
3. SLA
establishment
4. monitoring
non-neutral, non-
portable
high cost of sales / procurement (recurring)
up to 1.5 years duration
to close contract
high monitoring costs
new
3-6 months 3-6 months 3-6 months
An IaaS resource Marketplace will simplify the existing bilateral workflow enormously.
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10. Agenda
1 The role of exchanges today
Example: European Energy Exchange (EEX)
2 IaaS resources as an exchange-traded product
3 Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG – offering and functional overview
4 Contact details
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11. Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG covering full value chain
trading settlement
SLA surveillance
admission
financial fulfilment
Cloud Management Software (Zimory manage)
Cloud Management Software (Zimory connect)
sell-side*
buy-side*
Overview of the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange
cloud consumer
cloud broker cloud consumercloud provider
cloud brokercloud provider
Deutsche Börse
Cloud Exchange
*Market roles defined as in NIST SP 500-292
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12. Modular product offering guarantees both flexible
and standardised resource trading
1. Asset class
storage compute
2. Parameter
allocation model location of
product
open end
fixed end
Frankfurt
London
…
3. Service level agreement
SLA1 SLA2 SLA3
premium high medium
Asset class Time parameter Service level agreement
storage
compute
fixed end
open end
Location
parameter
location A
…
location A
…
SLA 1
SLA 2
SLA 3
SLA 1
SLA 2
SLA 3
fixed end
open end
Various combinations lead to different time-based contract offerings
+ +
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13. Intuitive navigation bar enables quick access to all
trading-relevant information, e.g. order book overview.
View own orders sorted by sell and buy orders.
The order book detail view lists all buy and sell orders
placed for a specific contract.
Trading cloud capacities as easy as online banking
Example for Cloud Exchange trading GUI – order book / orders / trades
Each successfully matched order is considered a trade.
Own Trades allows you to see trade details such as
execution price.
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14. Major project milestones and outlook
1. spot market
2. derivatives market
Launch planned early 2014 Launch planned in 2015
marketpenetration
immediate delivery of
capacities
physical settlement
flexible allocation of
capacities
spot pricing
short-term disposition
referenced price
delivery of capacities
on agreed date
physical or cash
settlement
hedging of future
demand
future price indication
risk management
speculation
Milestones Roadmap for DBCE
market with trades sold
for cash and (almost)
immediate delivery
market with gap
between trading and
delivery, used to hedge
future demand
Q2 2013
Q3 2013
10 2012
Q1 2014
Q1 2013
Project kick-off
Prototype available
Simulation environment
ready
Product specifications
finalized
Go live spot market
Q4 2013 Testing phase finished
Q2 2013 DBCE AG founded
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15. Agenda
1 The role of exchanges today
Example: European Energy Exchange (EEX)
2 IaaS resources as an exchange-traded product
3 Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG – offering and functional overview
4 Contact details
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16. Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange
Contact details
Sebastian Zilch
Head of Business Development
Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG
Mergenthalerallee 55-59
65760 Eschborn
Germany
Phone +49-(0) 6196-204 84 - 19
Fax +49-(0) 6196-204 84 - 20
E-Mail sebastian.zilch@dbcloudexchange.com