Microsoft Launches Ethereum-Powered Blockchain Platform
With its partnership with software production studio ConsenSys, Microsoft has launched an enterprise solution in the form an ethereum-powered blockchain. The platform will be available to customers of Microsoft's cloud-based platform - Azure. Computing behemoth Microsoft has confirmed the launch of its previously announced cloud-based blockchain platform. With the reveal, Microsoft now notes the new technology will specifically help financial institutions with tools to experiment with blockchain technology on its Azure platform. The news was revealed during the currently ongoing DevCon....
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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....
Recently Bitcoin Magazine reported that Microsoft has partnered with Consensys, a blockchain startup focused on Ethereum technology. Through the partnership, customers of Azure, Microsoft's cloud-based enterprise computing service, will be able to easily build cloud-based blockchain applications, from securities trading to cross-border payments to corporate accounting, and offer them to their own customers. As anticipated, more details of the partnership and Microsoft's plans for cloud-based blockchain services were unveiled at Ethereum's Developer Conference, DEVCON on November 10 in....
Fresh from launching its Ethereum-powered blockchain platform for customers of its cloud platform Azure, Microsoft has revealed it intends to add Ripple, an interledger protocol to its blockchain-based toolkit. Microsoft originally made the announcement to offer an Ethereum-blockchain solution for its customers after striking a partnership with ConsenSys toward the end of October. The objective was simple. Collaborate with the Brooklyn-based startup to grant Microsoft's enterprise users the necessary tools to use the Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS). The applications would allow....
Some people might argue the introduction of Dapp services will cost a lot of jobs, and they may be right up to a certain extent. But at the same time, Slock.it shows how certain tasks can be automated, which will create other jobs related to interpreting this data and fine tuning the process. Our society is changing, and more decentralization is always beneficial. The Microsoft Azure platform is making it increasingly easy to get people acquainted with blockchain technology and any protocol running on top of this solution. Slock.it, a company focusing all of their attention on business....
BlockApps, a startup providing Ethereum blockchain software for enterprises, has become the first certified offering on Microsoft Azure's Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) marketplace. With its latest post, Microsoft also announced that asset exchange provider AlphaPoint and Internet-of-Things micropayments startup IOTA have joined its Azure BaaS platform. Launched in October, Microsoft has been steadily adding providers to its blockchain testing environment for enterprises, though BlockApps' Strato platform is the first to gain certification. Calling the news "a watershed moment",....