Microsoft Launches Azure Blockchain Service in India

Microsoft Launches Azure Blockchain Service in India

Technology giant Microsoft has launched its Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) offering to provide blockchain solutions to customers over its Azure cloud platform. Following its announcement today, Microsoft Azure customers can tap the software-maker’s blockchain partners’ solutions with a “single-click deployment” a press release adds. Peter Gartenberg, general manager of enterprise and partner group at Microsoft said in a statement: In India, the availability of Microsoft Azure BaaS from local, hyper-scale data centers will help enable blockchain adoption in regulated sectors like banking....


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