Project Bletchley – Blockchain infrastructure made easy
We are very excited to announce the next phase of our support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.
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Bletchley – release & roadmap – Cryplets deep dive
In the introduction of Project Bletchley white paper in June, we introduced some of the requirements needed for building consortium based blockchains as well as Cryptlets, a primitive for next generation blockchain applications.
Announcing the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest
Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure Blob Storage. You can enable this feature on any Azure Resource Manager storage account using the Azure Portal, Azure Powershell, Azure CLI or the Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider API.
Enterprise-level policy management for Azure VM backup in Recovery Services vault
Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.
Incremental backups on Microsoft Azure Backup: Save on long term storage
How backups are stored impacts storage and network efficiencies. Incremental backups is a technology used by Azure Backup to efficiently store the backups to save on network and storage.
Introducing Project Bletchley and elements of blockchain born in the Microsoft Cloud
Introducing Microsoft Code Name “Bletchley,” an Enterprise Blockchain Architecture defining Blockchain Middleware and introducing Cryptlets.
StorSimple supports cool Blob storage
We are pleased to announce that StorSimple supports Azure Blob storage accounts.
Introducing Azure Cool Blob Storage
Azure Storage now offers customers the ability to store long-lived, infrequently accessed, object data at a low storage cost, while retaining the same high durability of Azure Storage.
New features for Azure diagnostics and Azure Audit logs
We are excited to announce a set of new features allowing you to gain deeper insights on the operations of your Azure resources as well as manage and consume this data in flexible ways.
Azure Blockchain as a Service update #7
New ways to discover Blockchain as a Service, new partners added – Expanse, Influx, Monero, Radium and Tendermint. Manifold’s endpoint also now available.
Persistent Docker volumes with Azure File Storage
Today we announce the Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage open source on GitHub, allowing you to store persistent data in containers and migrate them between hosts easily with the Linux SMB capabilities of Azure File Storage.
Azure Blockchain as a Service Update #6
Yet another busy week in the evolving ecosystem of blockchain technologies. New partners include Augur, Lisk, BitShares, Syscoin and Slock.it.