"It's very meaningful for me because I want to use block chaining instead of transaction engine and database," Patrick Moorhead, President and chief analyst of Moor Insights Strategy, Austen, Texas, said.
In recent months, the HP (HPE) company has taken action to bring the benefits of the block chain for direct control of the enterprise. Earlier this month, CISCO joined the Hyperledger project Council, mainly to improve the management and interoperability of network devices. At the DELL EMC World Conference in May this year, big hardware vendors had little mention of block chain technology.
Last week, Microsoft Corp and Intel launched the Coco framework, which uses Intel hardware to run block chains on Microsoft Azure. According to the two companies, it is designed to operate locally or in the cloud and is compatible with any ledger agreement.
Based on Peter Harris, co-founder and research director of Chain Business Insights, Austen, Texas, most of these efforts are still at an early stage, and many suppliers do not have so much expertise.
Moorhead said, IBM is the leader of the early block chain, which is the reason it has many financial services and retail customers, run applications trading volume is large, but the HPE company has many airlines and drug companies and customers, the transaction is similar to that of some of the projects include an internal deployment component to block the chain of hardware deployment.
For example, the digital trade chain association, composed of seven European banks, has established a trade financing platform using the IBM block chain and the Hyperledger Fabric. Keith Bear, vice president of global financial services at IBM, said five of them used the IBM cloud platform, and the other two banks were built in their own data centers.
Bear says it doesn't need anything special for banks to run the technology in a local data center. It can be built on both the hardware and the x86 architecture. The only reason for using block chains in the IBM cloud platform is to configure the enterprise's own cloud strategy or the IT team in the local deployment data center.
All the banks of the alliance have agreed to use core block chain functions in the internal system. The digital trade chain association uses the IBM high security service network (HSIB) in the data center of the LinuxONE based IBM cloud to serve all alliance members. HSBN is the security infrastructure for the basic element of the block chain. Bear indicates that parts of the local block chain must be combined with block chain API, monitoring and logging services and hosting services.
Raphael Davison, the global head of HPE, said HP (HPE) has already conducted a pilot project with the Bank of Commonwealth of Australia to invest in the block chain. However, enterprise implementation of block chain production deployment tends to use a public cloud or a common infrastructure, and wants to know why it does not expand.
Davison said, "if an application is run on the general hardware, the Java virtual machine will die out, and the transaction will not go through, it will only disappear."
Davis says that HPE's strategy to support block chains is the technology acquired by buying Tandem companies in 2003. Tandem is famous for its NonStop transaction processing technology, which is usually used in financial applications.
"If I have a data center, I'll let these transactions run in the data center, and now they are running in NonStop." Moorhead said.
The block chain running in the local data center should not affect the IT application
Harris shows that block chain software is not significantly different from other enterprise data center applications, but there is no specific reason, that is, block chain can also run in cloud data center. The IT leader will make the same decision on the way the database or ERP run, and consider factors such as security, performance, and manageability.
"The company has decided to get a more controllable environment," Harris said. There are certain markets that are looking for a block chain running in the enterprise data center, and now they are looking for help to do that. "
David Linthicum, senior vice president of cloud computing technology partners, said almost all Financial Services Company have adopted block chain, but not yet widely deployed.
In fact, the application of an enterprise data center to push the block chain comes from hardware vendors, rather than driven by customer interest. He stressed that the distribution and complexity of block chains could lead to performance problems in enterprise networks.
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