Blockchain startup Global Blockchain Technologies Corp. has announced that it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized marketplace for cloud services, targeted towards enterprise users.
Users with excess computing resources will be matched with users who require additional computing resources, enabling the latter to purchase what they need from the former. By leveraging the “sharing economy” model championed by Uber and AirBnB, the PoC will bring similar benefits to enterprise computing and its users, offering offers a secure, inexpensive, more efficient alternative to regular cloud services.
The PoC will be built on the Laser network, a blockchain developed by Global Blockchain that connects existing blockchain networks to be interoperable, similar to the role that SWIFT plays in banking.
“This PoC will do for enterprise cloud services what AirBnB did for accommodations,” said Shidan Gouran, President and CEO of the Company. “With computing resources becoming increasingly in-demand in enterprise organizations, the ability to buy and sell excess capacity will revolutionize enterprise IT.”
Global Blockchain Technologies is trialing the PoC with existing HPE users, and enabling seamless integration with tools such as OneSphere and Nimble.
According to the official release, the PoC will form the basis of a BLOC project called the Stratus Marketplace. Once developed, Stratus will be an open-source, Internet-scale P2P storage network that eliminates the risks and inefficiencies of centralized storage methods, liquidates unused capacity, and brings low-cost computing resources to enterprise users. Stratus presently has a targeted release date in late Q3 of 2018.
“We are thrilled to give our members the opportunity to try this ground breaking PoC, it addresses a persisting issue of supply and demand for computing resources that virtually all of the group’s members face, and it is clear that when this PoC hits the mainstream enterprise market, everybody will want to use it,” Eskander Mirza, Chairman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Storage Users Group, said.
