Today IBM announced IBM Blockchain Platform Multicloud. The big news is that IBM’s blockchain solution now runs on other clouds, be that Azure or AWS as well as on premises.
Until recently, if you wanted to use IBM Blockchain Platform, that meant you had to use the IBM Cloud. Many enterprise networks are consortia, and even if the founding members used IBM, new participants are likely to have existing cloud deployments on other networks.
At the
Hyperledger Global Forum at the end of last year, IBM Blockchain CTO Gari Singh explained. “When we started out, our distribution of Fabric, the IBM Blockchain Platform was a [IBM] cloud first solution. At the beginning that made a lot of sense because a lot of times the networks were more pilot networks or you had a single entity that was the backbone of the network.”
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