Financial organisations are currently looking with great interest at Blockchain databases. This is the same technology behind most crypto-currencies including bitcoin. The goal of Blockchain is to maintain a timestamped, immutable, continually growing list of records. Each block can hold batches of transactions and the results of any blockchain executables.
OpenStack lends itself perfectly to the OpenStack platform for hosting as well as potentially providing solutions to some governance challenges such as those being addressed by the Congress Project.
This talk will examine the architecture and profile of a blockchain application hosted on OpenStack, examine the challenges and the requirements that still need to be met as well look at what can already be achieved. Finally we will look at how this technology might provide governance solutions to cloud tenants within the platform and dovetail with the work going on in the Congress project and some potential benefits of this union.
Users who have a need to provide a secure journal service to applications or users and who are looking to host those applications in the OpenStack environment. Users and operators of OpenStack clouds that have an interest in new application use cases.