More On Red Hat Launching Blockchain Open Source Initiative
In April, Red Hat announced the OpenShift initiative to aid financial services industry in building hosted blockchain applications. Red Hat would manage container application deployment with OpenShift Dedicated support for financial institutions interested in experimenting with the blockchain. “We are pleased to partner with Red Hat and have initially deployed BlockApps STRATO, our Ethereum Blockchain infrastructure on OpenShift,” the company stated. “This platform supports the development of smart contract solutions and can allow developers to build and deploy their blockchain....
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Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, recently introduced their OpenShift Blockchain Initiative in an attempt to bridge the gap between traditional finance and blockchain technology. OpenShift announced their Dedicated initiative at the end of 2015. The main purpose of this initiative was to combine Red Hat’s engineer and....
Red Hat officially announced the OpenShift Blockchain Initiative today, a new development effort aimed at assisting financial firms as they embark on proofs-of-concept and other trials related to the emerging technology. Under the OpenShift Blockchain Initiative, Red Hat customers can build hosted blockchain applications using tools provided by independent solutions vendors (ISVs) focused on the industry, while taking advantage of the company's managed support services. In interview, Julio Tapia, director of the Red Hat OpenShift partnership ecosystem, sought to position the announcement....
Red Hat, Inc, one of the leading providers of open-source software to the enterprise community, has announced a new partnership initiative for blockchain software vendors. The initiative is called “Openshift Blockchain” and will aid fintech start-ups and independent software vendors (ISV’s) to build hosted blockchain solutions while Red Hat manages container application deployment. Red Hat will also provide support through Openshift Dedicated. The goal is to provide a dev ecosystem capable of handling build activity ranging from the start-up to traditional financial institutions that are....
Tech giant Microsoft has partnered with startups Blockstack Labs and ConsenSys to build an open-source identity platform aimed at integrating the bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. The project seeks to build a platform for cross-blockchain identity across multiple distributed systems. An early version of the identity solution is expected to be available by the end of this summer. In a blog post published today, Microsoft global business strategist York Rhodes wrote that in the coming weeks Microsoft will launch an open source framework on Azure, where developers can build their own identity....