Microsoft Launches Enterprise Blockchain Partnership in TaiwanMicrosoft Taiwan has entered a partnership with Digital China and Hot Cool in the hope that the three companies can use blockchain technology to improve the financial, e-commerce, entertainment, and other industries.
The three-party blockchain alliance unveiled the initiative at a conference on June 28 at the Le Méridien Hotel in Taipei City. Sun Jikang, the general manager of Microsoft Taiwan, explained that he believes Microsoft Azure can improve the computing speed and security of Digital China’s digital blockchain services. For those unaware, Azure is a cloud computing service offered by Microsoft, which allows users to build, test, deploy, and manage applications and services using the firm’s global network of data centers.
Jikang stated, according to a rough translation:
“Taiwan has first-class engineering and technical talents, and their innovative thinking cannot be underestimated. At the same time, it carries a solid manufacturing and R&D foundation, plus Excellent geographical location, with the superior conditions for the development of blockchain application, I believe that Microsoft’s tooling in the strategic layout of the blockchain, and citing the global partner resources, is bound to be the vision of the industrial application of the blockchain.”
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