Blockchain has come to most people’s attention as the technology behind crypto currencies, but what does it mean to enterprise users? In this presentation, pain points being encountered in the storage system supply chain will be described and efforts to adopt blockchain to solve the problems will be shared. The right architecture can allow for connections from subtier suppliers all the way through the customer bases. It can provide benefits includes mitigating data security risk, combatting counterfeiting, which will surely become commonplace as the storage market continues its rapid growth, and improving part provenance. The storage industry will need to have its members at all levels partner together to harness the benefits of blockchain.
Presented by Michelle Lam, IBM