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01 June 2021 | Posted by userDataCenter

Blockchain in Data Centers

What is Blockchain? Blockchain is an immutable, shared ledger for recording transactions, tracking assets, and building trust. It allows you to store pieces of digital information in a public database to record transactions between users and other changes in your database made without intermediaries. This record is encoded in such a way that any user can track it forever for maximum transparency.

Advantages of using blockchain:

- Cybersecurity: It is not stored in a single location and is decentralized. It also means that the records you keep are public and easily verified.

- Accessibility: Hosted on millions of computers, it allows anyone on the Internet to access the data.

 

Advantages of integrating it into a Data Center:

Data centers are evolving due to the increase in data and users, along with the need for data retrieval from multiple users in real time with a high demand for fast transmissions. Data centers are evolving into digital infrastructures for cloud services, and the next generation of cloud services could well adapt to incorporate a blockchain network. Simply put, the blockchain data center infrastructure can adapt to increasing data processing demands ensuring fast, smooth and secure transmission.

Data centers are complex systems and blockchain offers a level of transparency not yet seen with traditional infrastructure. The technology can track, record and store metrics on the health of networks. Whether the data is public or private, blockchains are transparent to authorized participants, making it easy to authenticate.

Although many organizations worry about the decentralization and the little privacy that blockchain has, it must be taken into account that it has a high degree of security integrated into the protocol. Blockchain transmits value and the data is verified and stored by the network everywhere, preventing unauthorized access. As IoT devices become more common, blockchain data center integration can address and correct some of the associated security challenges they present.

 

In summary:

complete transparency, new level of security, automated network management and better space planning.

A recent Gartner survey showed that only 1% of CIOs indicated some form of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only 8% of CIOs were in short-term planning or seeking active experimentation with blockchain. The uses and benefits are available, but for now, the complexity in implementation and the general lack of knowledge about this technology is too high for most. However, adoption may not be a question of if, but of when. Data architects acting now should have an edge over the competition by creating process efficiencies for transactions and eliminating latency issues known to traditional data center infrastructures.

 

Oriol & Jan

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