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Microsoft touts its first managed blockchain service: JPMorgan’s Quorum

IT World

Microsoft today announced its first Azure-based, managed blockchain platform using JPM's Quorum enterprise-class distributed ledger technology. Since 2015, Microsoft's Azure cloud service has allowed users to install a number of blockchain platforms, including Enterprise Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, and Quorum.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. You don’t hear about the blockchain initiatives anymore. Jason Lemkin: Everyone had a pet project, right? Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team. Is AWS in the lead?