As Microsoft Azure closes shop, ConsenSys Quorum opens up to new users
Could the migration from Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain to ConsenSys’ Quorum Blockchain Service be good news? Is this where the enterprise blockchain industry is heading? Just as the cryptocurrency sector is constantly changing and evolving, the enterprise blockchain industry has been undergoing its fair share of developments lately. Most recently, enterprise blockchain solutions are shifting from private, closed networks to public, open systems. This has largely been made possible due to advances from the Ethereum network, which are ensuring better privacy, scalability, throughput and more....
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Microsoft is closing its Azure Blockchain Service, giving existing customers just four months to transition to new service providers. Microsoft is turning off its corporate Azure Blockchain Service on September 10 and will not accept any new deployments effective immediately, with no official explanation provided.Large corporate customers who use Azure Blockchain include J.P. Morgan, GE Aviation, Singapore Airlines, Starbucks, and Xbox according to its website.The announcement was made in a low key post on the Microsoft documentation site on Monday, informing all current customers to....
From firmly stamping its presence as one of the first big corporations to pay attention to the bitcoin and block chain arena, Microsoft has now struck a partnership with an Ethereum-based startup to deliver blockchain as an enterprise solution for clients of the software giant's cloud-based Azure service. Microsoft has announced a partnership with ConsenSys, an Ethereum-coder collective from Brooklyn that will allow enterprise users on Azure to gain access to Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (E BaaS). BlockApps Strato, a toolkit used for developing Ethereum-based applications will be among....
Microsoft has announced a strategic partnership with Brooklyn-based startup ConsenSys amid its launch of a cloud-based blockchain platform on Tuesday, to assist financial institutions and banks to experiment with bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain. The Seattle-based company will offer Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EBaaS) on Microsoft Azure to enable Enterprise and institutional clients to build Ethereum blockchain and Smart Contract-based applications with pre-built tools and templates. The platform will be available to banks and insurance companies already registered to....
BlockApps, a Microsoft affiliate designed to provide an enterprise block chain toolkit to help businesses develop new functionalities, brings to mind the role that Oracle plays in the future of decentralized databases, according to Victor Wong, BlockApps CEO. In an interview with International Business Times, Wong cited Oracle's role as a database provider as a parallel to BlockApp's role providing tools such as smart contracts for businesses to use to create new functionalities. Microsoft Enters The Block Chain Arena. Microsoft partnered with an Ethereum-based startup, ConsenSys, to....
Microsoft Azure Welcomes new partners OKcash, VCash, Blocknet, BitSwift and five others to the Blockchain As A Service (BaaS) ecosystem, all of which can be tested out in the Azure DevTest labs now. Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible and scalable platform supporting an increasing number of distributed ledger technologies. Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)....