For example, Equinix provides an access node for the Australian Security Exchange from the Equinix Chicago datacenter so firms in Chicago can connect directly to the Sydney Futures Exchange.
The way to do this prior was to find out where the datacenter for an exchange was located and put your servers as close as possible and hopefully on the same network backbone.
Equinix says the Marketplace makes it possible for any company with a presence in any Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter to quickly find and directly connect to a global value-chain of more than 4, 000 potential partners, customers and suppliers of digital services.
Networked machines able to exchangedata and take action without humans can boost productivity and customer satisfaction faster than any outsourced call center.
Equinix, a provider of global datacenter services which host hundreds of telecommunications connections and many financial exchanges including NASDAQ OMX, CBOE Stock Exchange and BATS Europe, is launching the Equinix Marketplace.
Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.