Interesting pick up and development. Thanks for sharing. IMO it's probably enough to get peoples ears to prick up and go looking for other players in the sector including RFN for investment possibilities. IF IBM and RFN release a joint ann - happy days...
'"The reality is you can get from no lines of code to a live pilot, let's say, in 10 weeks or so now,” he said. “It really can be very quick. The journey to production and hardening things up for an actual regulated enterprise of course takes a little longer, but they are increasingly things we have experience in doing and can do it at speed now for people.
Although it still requires talented software engineers, blockchain technology 'by and large can deliver what people want it to deliver at the moment'.
'Now, what remains new are new business models, new governance structures around data; in some cases, around sharing data with a competitor of yours,” he said. “That remains something that people need to progressively address. You can't just click your fingers and have the perfect governance model signed off by the people you need to sign it off.'
'IBM currently offers its blockchain platform from its Melbourne data centre and the company intends to make it available from its Sydney data centre in Q1, he said'.
'Being able to offer data sovereignty to local clients is a big step forward for the Australian market, Colchester added, and the local data centres also significantly reduce latency'.
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