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27. IBM Confidential
Storage for
Blockchain ---
Our Journey
so far …
4Q18 - introduction,
Focus & Your Time to
Value
Storage for Blockchain
POV
1Q19 – Distributed Peer
Solution
On premises distributed
peer solutions that house
both on and off-chain data
2Q19 – Off-chain
Extension and Data
Management
New on premises off-chain
storage
Expansion of off-chain
storage
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On-prem deployments
IBM Blockchain on ICP
(4Q18)
As-a-Service in IBM
Cloud
§ Startup Plan (IKS)
§ Enterprise (Z shared)
§ Enterprise + (Z
dedicated)
§Storage in Distributed
peer for both off-chain
and on-chain data
§Backup Storage
§Data management
tools
§Storage to host off-
chain data migrating off
the cloud
§Backup Storage
§Data management
tools
Clients looking for new
on premises Distributed
peer solutions that
houses both onchain and
offchain data
Clients looking for new
on-premises offchain
storage
Clients looking to
expand their current
offchain storage
Performance
• Read Intensive operations driven
by remotely accessing your
offchain data store
• Consolidation of Datastores
• Upgrading data store to meet
required SLA
Scalability
• Blockchain characteristics (i.e.
trust, immutability) driving the
birth of new processes
• Additional granular data that was
not previously required
Security
• Protecting your data oceans
• Selecting what you want to share
• An increase number of people
accessing your data store (More
hackers!)
Frequent Editing
• Datastores storing the required
hashes, cryptographic codes and
keys
• Frequent updating of hashes to
match ledger entries
Storage OpportunityBlockchain offerings Client value
ConsiderationsIBM Storage Solutions for Blockchain