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snyderb.de
Mar 15, 2017Copper Contributor
Public Archives and Retention Schedules via Blockchain
Hello - I'm the new IT Consultant at a State Public Archives Agency... We are in the middle of deciding to move to Azure/AWS/IBM; some other third-party company... andbecause we are already in t...
Daragh Morrissey
Microsoft
Mar 15, 2017It's a broad question ;) Blockchain in itself is not an Archival System. It could supplement an Archiving system by ensuring that documents have not been tampered by hashing the content.
snyderb.de
Mar 15, 2017Copper Contributor
Yeah I know it's not appropriate for archivals at all (trying to explain that to state employees is hard... because they hear "Decentralized and Distributed" and it's a job in of itself to cut through all the buzzspeak honestly) but this is a cool example of using the tech in conjunction with data storage...
thank you for the reply!