Cloud 2.0 focuses on scaling the blockchain ecosystem to develop new opportunities in the cloud space. In 2018, the world’s major cloud companies have shown a great interest around blockchain. Amazon Web Services (AWS), , and Microsoft , all expressed how the distributed digital ledger technology is becoming a key ingredient for the future of the cloud. Google Cloud Build Azure , one of the key players in the blockchain space, operating as a venture production studio and blockchain software development consultancy, made a major moved into the cloud industry through a partnership between , a new start-up part of the so-called ConsenSys mesh, and AWS. The company is aiming to give AWS customers an “easy button” to get into the same technology that underpins cryptocurrencies and d-apps, or decentralized applications. ConsenSys Kaleido Now ConsenSys has made a major move into the cloud industry. It has recently partnered with semiconductor producer AMD and Abu-Dhabi-based investment management firm Halo Holdings to jointly work on a new project named W3BCLOUD, a blockchain-based cloud computing infrastructure. The goal is to develop optimized datacenter solutions for emerging blockchain workloads through the creation of W3BCLOUD. Leveraging ConsenSys’ extensive blockchain software expertise, W3BCLOUD plans to develop optimized solutions powered by AMD hardware that are capable of supporting a variety of workloads and applications for governments and commercial enterprises, as well as accelerate the adoption of decentralized applications. “Bolstering the compute power of blockchain networks with AMD’s leading-edge technology will be of great benefit to the scalable adoption of emerging decentralized systems around the globe,” said , founder of and ConsenSys. “The combination of hardware and software will power a new infrastructure layer and enable an accelerated proliferation of blockchain technologies.” Joseph Lubin ethereum Last year, Ben Noble of , called blockchain-based cloud computing as Cloud2.0. “Cloud was the first move away from centralization,” he wrote in Cointelegraph. “The Cloud moved servers off of enterprise campuses and centralized the processing power elsewhere. Blockchain is slicing up the processing power and scattering it all over the globe.” MarketBlok According to , “the blockchain is what the cloud was always to be — a truly transparent and interconnected network that eliminates the need for a centralized transactional authority and solves for the cloud’s most troubling security risks.” Ali Ayyash supposed “In many ways, the blockchain is really a Cloud 2.0,” he wrote on . “Blockchain bears opportunities for developers unseen since the turn of the century.” in a post Hackernoon Is 2019 the year of Cloud 2.0?

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