VMware Blockchain has been in the works for a couple of years and today it was announced it is commercially available. But it’s already getting used for some substantial projects. One of those is the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) CHESS settlement solution. Originally this used Digital Asset’s blockchain, but the ledger is now VMware’s with Digital Asset’s smart contract language DAML.
“We have been focused on building an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that meets the most stringent application requirements of the financial services industry and other mission-critical distributed workloads that require reliable and high-performance blockchain services,” said Brendon Howe, VP and General Manager, Blockchain, VMware.
While the enterprise blockchain space is still young, there are some definite technology leaders in terms of adoption. They are Hyperledger Fabric and its biggest promoter IBM, enterprise Ethereum and R3’s Corda. So can VMware become one of the leaders, and if so, how?
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