Microsoft Announces Blockchain Partnership with R3
The New York-based private banking blockchain consortium led by R3 has now added a new “strategic’ partner, in global software giant Microsoft. In a new announcement made today, Microsoft is now in a partnership with R3CEV, a consortium of the leading banking institutions of the world that is looking to develop real-world blockchain solutions for the current banking and financial services industry. Microsoft, through its cloud service platform Azure, will also serve as the cloud services provider for R3’s Lab and Research Center that is currently developing blockchain-solutions to serve....
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Microsoft has recently entered into a strategic partnership with R3CEV to offer its Azure cloud-based infrastructure for the development of blockchian solutions. Microsoft has been making the right moves to capture the growing bitcoin and blockchain technology market. The technology giant today announced that it has entered into a partnership with R3CEV, the company behind the development of blockchain technology for the international banking consortium. According to a press release, Microsoft and R3CEV have struck a deal to use the former’s Azure cloud platform for implementing blockchain....
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....
Microsoft yesterday announced a strategic partnership with R3, a distributed ledger consortium of 40-plus global banks to push the development of blockchain technology. The announcement came as a part of Microsoft Envision, a new event that brings together thousands of business leaders from nearly every industry to share insights and uncover solutions for success in the digital age. The goal of the partnership according to Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of global business development at Microsoft, is to develop and test blockchain-based technologies as a replacement for the....
Microsoft's Azure blockchain and its blockchain-as-a-service endeavor is now adding three new partners to its blockchain-toolkit platform, with one of them even providing a Bitcoin data service. Soon after launching its blockchain-based service for customers of its cloud platform Azure last month, Microsoft has been ramping up its partners who will serve as collaborators and service providers. Last week, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Ripple, the interledger protocol to its blockchain toolkit. In a new blog post by Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy for Financial....
Blockchain applications could see further development in India after a new partnership between technology behemoth Microsoft and advisory firm KPMG, commonly known one of the “Big Four” auditing firms in the world. Announced today, the strategic partnership will fundamentally see the two companies collaborate on the digitization of large and mid-market Indian enterprises, powered by the Internet of Things (IoT). The outcome of the partnership could see Microsoft and KMPG clients in India deploy cloud-based automation, IoT-enabled operational insights and analytics, increased mobility among....