Research, design and development of computer hardware and software; installation and maintenance of computer software; computer software consulting; updating of computer software for others; customization of computer software; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for accessing a financial exchange; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for use in trading, clearing, confirmation, and financial trading risk management for exchange market transactions in the field of futures, options, swaps, and other derivative contracts; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for accessing financial information and trading of financial instruments; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for financial trade allocation, confirmation, clearing and settlement transactions; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for calculating and analyzing prices of financial instruments and accessing financial securities pricing data; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable computer software for accessing financial securities pricing data; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable computer software for managing financial data and creating financial reports; technical support services, namely, technical administration of servers for others and troubleshooting in the nature of diagnosing computer hardware and software problems; technical support services, namely, remote and on-site infrastructure management services for monitoring, administration and management of public and private cloud computing IT and application systems; rental of computer hardware, computer software and web servers; customized software development services; application service provider featuring customizable application programming interfaces for use in building software applications; computer consulting services in connection with software for facilitating interactive communication and information sharing over a global computer network and other networks in the field of finance; computer software as a service (SAAS) featuring computer software for accessing, hosting, managing, developing, analyzing and maintaining scalable computer hardware, computer software, computer applications, websites, and databases for others accessible via private and global computer networks; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for accessing, hosting, managing, developing, analyzing and maintaining scalable computer hardware, computer software, computer applications, websites, and databases for others accessible via private and global computer networks; Providing platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platform for financial trading, financial exchange and financial clearing services; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platform for authenticating, facilitating, matching, processing, clearing, and submitting trade data, exchanging of trading transaction details, and management of the overall trading lifecycle; infrastructure as a service (IAAS) featuring computer software platforms for accessing, hosting, managing, developing, analyzing and maintaining scalable cloud computing infrastructure services accessible via private and global computer networks; providing virtual computer systems and virtual computer environments through cloud computing; infrastructure as a service (IAAS) for financial exchange services, application service provider (ASP) and software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software matching engines for routing, allocating and processing trades on a financial exchange; matching engine as a service, namely, software for matching, routing, allocating and processing bids and offers on a financial exchange; cloud computing services, namely, cloud hosting in the nature of a scalable computer software for providing access to an electronic financial exchange; computer hardware and software design and development; design, deployment, support, management, and maintenance of cloud computing infrastructure software for others; consultation services in the fields of selection, implementation and use of computer hardware and software systems for others; computer consultation services in the field of infrastructure as a service (IAAS), software as a service (SAAS), and platform as a service (PAAS); computer network design for others