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FAQs: How blockchain and cloud compare – and complement each other

Niamh O’Connell — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:48:58 +0000

By Niamh O’Connell, senior business development manager at CasperLabs. Companies have relied on commercial storage providers to house their data since the 1960s – and when cloud services were introduced in the 2000s, early adopters quickly benefited from greater scalability, flexibility, fewer maintenance responsibilities, and improved security. Today, blockchain technology is similarly poised to transform... Read more »

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Salesforce employees are protesting the company’s NFT plans

Fin Strathern — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:12:58 +0000

Hundreds of Salesforce employees are protesting against the company’s plans to offer non-fungible token (NFT) services, according to the Thomas Reuters Foundation. More than 400 employees have signed an open letter addressed to Salesforce’s co-CEOs calling for them to abandon their crypto plans. Marc Benioff and Bren Taylor, the company’s CEOs, revealed intentions to build... Read more »

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AWS makes Ethereum generally available on Amazon Managed Blockchain

James Bourne — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:07:13 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability (GA) of Ethereum on its managed blockchain service. The open source blockchain joins Hyperledger Fabric as compatible with Amazon Managed Blockchain – in a move which will add power to Ethereum’s offering, but also showcases AWS’ latent ambitions in the space. A preview had been showcased... Read more »

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