Blockchain to unleash the Internet of Value
March 23, 2016 by Mary Allen

A new book by Chris Skinner, the mind behind The Financer, explores how blockchain technologies can enable the real time transaction processing needed to power the Internet of Things.
Bitcoin is already transforming the bank industry…
“The leading companies at the moment are doing the most interesting things. A company like Digital Asset Holdings, which is developing a system for the clearing of settlements, is run by Blythe Masters who is the former senior managing director at J.P. Morgan Chase (…) Another example is a company in the UK called SETL.io, which claims to be able to process over a billion transactions a second,” explains Chris Skinner. Read more

They’re doing what?? Microsoft open play
March 21, 2016 by Lynn Greiner

Do pigs fly? Microsoft has not only released products on Linux, in efforts to support open source initiatives, the company has actually launched an open source software named SONiC, and announced that it will be member of the Eclipse Foundation.
It is not madness after all
“Pigs are beginning to fly (…) and those pigs fluttering above the icy plains of Hades not only have a great view, they’re looking down on the future. And that future includes open source and Linux as well as Windows,” remarks InsightaaS contributor Lynn Greiner. Read More

CL and SAP partnering to drive new analytics opportunity
March 18, 2016 by Mary Allen

HANA Enterprise Cloud, delivered through a winning partnership between CenturyLink Cognilytics and SAP, offers customers the potential to expedite analytics and Big Data strategies

An ongoing partnership
Cognilytics has developed on the SAP HANA platform for the past six years. Now that HANA will run on CenturyLink infrastructure, CenturyLink will “provide the HANA journey, where HANA is more than a platform, where it can serve as a data mart providing customers with real time analytics,” according to Jinesh Jain, VP, Delivery & PMO of CenturyLink Cognilytics. Read more