Microsoft Is Shutting Down Its Azure Blockchain Service (zdnet.com) 44
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, 2021. Existing deployments will be supported until that date, but as of May 10 this year, no new deployments or member creation is being supported. ZDNet reports: Microsoft's initial foray into Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) began in 2015 with an offering on the Etherum Platform with ConsenSys. In late January 2016, Microsoft made available a preview of a lab environment in Azure's DevTest Labs so that Blockchain-related services and partners can decouple the Blockchain technology from virtual machines. Microsoft's short-term goal for the Azure BaaS was to make available a certified blockchain marketplace. In the interim, the focus was to add blockchain partners of all kinds, rather than trying to pick a limited number of potential winners, officials said.
Microsoft ended up fielding a preview of Azure BaaS, but lately had not done much to update the service. However, Microsoft's product page for Azure BaaS lists GE, J.P. Morgan, Singapore Airlines, Starbucks and Xbox as customers. Microsoft's documentation suggests users start migrating to an alternative now. The recommended migration destination is ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service. Users also could opt to self-manage their blockhains using VMs.
Microsoft ended up fielding a preview of Azure BaaS, but lately had not done much to update the service. However, Microsoft's product page for Azure BaaS lists GE, J.P. Morgan, Singapore Airlines, Starbucks and Xbox as customers. Microsoft's documentation suggests users start migrating to an alternative now. The recommended migration destination is ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service. Users also could opt to self-manage their blockhains using VMs.
Blockchain... (Score:1)
Chain, chain, chain... (Score:2)
chain of fools.
Houston, we have a problem (Score:5, Funny)
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Don't be too proud of yourself. Microsoft just proved themselves completely incompetent in this space. They had their B team working on that SaaS system; it was a joke.
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They had their B team working on that SaaS system; it was a joke.
What's the A team been working on?
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VS Code
Re:Houston, we have a problem (Score:5, Insightful)
They could have followed Theranos and promoted a product impossible to build. They are definitely a legit company they don't need the dumb money and the scammy practices that go with it.
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Re: Houston, we have a problem (Score:2)
Microsoft's A team is marketing and sales. All the technical teams are B at best.
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Slashdot used to have posters with a clue.
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Lawsuit from Disney in 3 .... 2 .... 1 .... (Score:3)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story... [slashdot.org]
What else is Disney going to use to implement there brilliant blockchain antipiracy platform?
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Tor Exit Nodes (Score:1)
"Cybersecurity researchers have said a threat actor has been adding malicious servers into the Tor network to intercept traffic heading to cryptocurrency websites and carry out SSL stripping attacks on users while accessing mixing websites. The threat actor, through its exit relays, performed an SSL stripping attack on traffic headed towards cryptocurrency websites, downgrading the encrypted HTTPS connection to plaintext HTTP. In the case of the attacks against the
Wow (Score:2)
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They had no idea what they were doing.
Azure Blockchain Service was useless (Score:2)
s/Azure/All/ (Score:2)
All blockchain services are useless. The only people who thought they were a good idea for anything were the marketing people, or technical people who didn't understand it (which basically means marketing people).
Strew your data around in containers everywhere where literally the only thing keeping you from disaster is a single cryptographic primitive. Cryptography is great, and we use it daily for many things. But for the most part it's a safety railing. I am in the navy and we tell people every day wh
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I keep reading this. Can outline a use case for a private - as in intra-organization block chain, that is solved more easily, cheaply, or reliably, than it can be using traditional more mature solutions?
I keep getting pulled into conversations that start out 'blockchain' and ending up with 'well I guess ${favorite database} and ${favorite message queue} would be a lot easier and compares favorably in terms of costs and risks'
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"Seems like Microsoft didn't understand the blockchain eco system"
Or maybe they understood all too well that they had customers demanding blockchain for no good reason but were still trying to throw their money away.
Blockchain recommended replacement (Score:4, Insightful)
Any traditional SQL database, such as MariaDB. It works for 99.9% of the alleged use cases of blockchain.
However, since probably nobody is using it in production, no one will care.
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There are a decent number of applications for hash trees. The unique feature of blockchain is the absence of a central authority to control write operations though. So far, except for some experiments with currency, I haven't seen a credible purpose for that.
oh my god (Score:1)
Microsoft is yanking your chain! (Score:2)
Just disappointed nobody used that as an article title for this one!