HPE Introduces Blockchain as-a-Service Solution for Enterprises

HPE Introduces Blockchain as-a-Service Solution for Enterprises
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HPE announced the first product in the Mission Critical Blockchain family. Mission Critical Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a solution that enables customers to run distributed ledger workloads on the highest availability enterprise platforms.

Mission Critical DLT is a distributed ledger technology that is used to record transactions across a decentralized network of computers and has a wide range of potential applications across industries. According to Gartner, blockchain will generate $176 billion in business value by 2025.

Enterprises evaluating blockchain solutions are finding that generic infrastructure and public cloud environments cannot support the requirements they need in terms of performance, security, scalability and resiliency. Mission Critical DLT solution offers, according to HPE's press release, availability and fault protection for enterprise-grade applications. This solution includes Scalability and SQL integration that cannot be realized with workloads running in a public cloud environment or generic infrastructure.

The Mission Critical DLT solution is a part of their approach to bring enterprise-grade capability to blockchain workloads. The solution is offered on HPE Integrity NonStop platforms, which process two out of every three credit card transactions in the world. It was developed in partnership with enterprise software firm R3, integrating the company’s distributed ledger technology with HPE's mission critical platform.This combination enables customers to execute distributed-ledger workloads in environments that demand 100 percent fault tolerance at mission critical levels and ensures massive scalability to grow with the business as well as SQL integration with legacy systems.