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Almost two years ago, I wrote about how NYSE Technologies was launching a "community cloud" targeted at the financial trading community. At the time, it was a brave experiment, with powerful ideas behind the offering. I was duly fascinated. Now, two years later, they're now reaping the benefits of being the first mover in their industry: many customers, expanded services, increased investment -- success is clearly at hand. Could the dynamics behind their success lead to similar community clouds for other industry sectors? I think so ... Expanding The Cloud Lexicon We're all somewhat familiar with private clouds, public clouds and hybrid models. How does the notion of a community cloud fit in? It's not a private cloud: community cloud services run multi-tenant on shared infrastructure using a common operational model. It's certainly not a public cloud in several important aspects. Certain aspects *might* be described as hybrid, but that's not what's really going on here. So it certainly deserves a separate moniker as it's meaningfully different than other forms of cloud. Welcome To The Financial Trading World The competitive demands of financial trading leads to a very unique and specialized flavor of IT as compared to more familiar enterprise... |
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