Newsletter Sign-up CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. SUBSCRIBE However, the projects could run into challenges if the data that goes on the blockchain is inaccurate and difficult to verify, an analyst at Gartner Inc. said. “This whole platform is really about speed,” said Mark Treshock, IBM’s global blockchain solutions leader for health care and life sciences. Mr. Treshock oversees Rapid Supplier Connect, a...

“There’s a lot of technologies combined to make this work,” said Eng Lim Goh, vice president and chief technology officer of HPE’s high-performance computing and AI division. Eng Lim Goh Photo: Courtesy: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Mr. Goh’s team is exploring the possibility of making devices smarter as AI is increasingly used in edge computing, a method in which certain data is processed and analyzed on or near the device where it’s generated. Edge computing, driven in part by the rise in...

The company plans to release the platform, Salesforce Blockchain, more widely in 2020, though it is still figuring out pricing details, said Adam Caplan, senior vice president of Salesforce’s emerging-technology division. Salesforce declined to disclose how much it invested in its blockchain service. Companies including Microsoft Corp. have announced cloud services for blockchain applications in recent months. Best known as the record-keeping system behind cryptocurrencies, blockchain is a...

“It was important to make sure that we could provide the sort of enterprise tools and services that [companies] need,” Mr. Farooq said. Umar Farooq Photo: JP Morgan Chase & Co. While the bank doesn’t charge companies to use Quorum, Mr. Farooq said getting more organizations to use one blockchain platform could help iron out standards for building blockchain applications and sharing data. French luxury-goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE is using Quorum to provide proof of...

The CIO, Rob Carter, is an advocate for standards around blockchain’s potential uses in the transportation industry. “We think this is something that radically reduces friction and creates authenticity as things move around our networks,” he said. Best known as the record-keeping system behind cryptocurrencies, blockchain is a data structure that makes it possible to create and share a digital ledger of transactions among various parties. The data, encrypted and unchangeable, is always up to...