Standardization of the cloud is what http://www.ucxchange.com http://www.ucxchange.com is working on out of Chicago. It's an interesting model that I was shown

Standardization of the cloud is what http://www.ucxchange.com http://www.ucxchange.com is working on out of Chicago. It's an interesting model that I was shown recently. The basic premise is that with standardization of hosting environment platforms an exchange is able to offer their customers a multitude of vendors who compete on price and will have the same features within their environments. The most interesting opportunity with this is for resellers of cloud computing who can sell compute resources to customers at full price but only pay the exchange based on what they use. It won't last long but if it works resellers will make a fortune migrating customers from big names like Amazon to other big names like IBM through UCX.