The framework provides UK public sector organisations with a way to buy cloud-based services as commodities to accelerate cloud adoption in a timely and cost-effective manner.

By turning the challenge of acquiring and provisioning hardware into a button press, the cloud has eliminated many barriers to new application deployment. But the benefits that come with this ease of deploying and scaling systems also come with a cost.

WANdisco announces a new patent filing. The filing protects the use of the WANdisco’s Distributed Coordination Engine™ (DConE) - a patented Paxos-based consensus technology - to resolve issues associated with public blockchain technology.