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From Blockchain PoCs to Pilots – Not So Fast

6/12/2017

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By Pete Harris, Principal, Lighthouse Partners, Inc. and WSBA Perspectives Blog Curator
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​I pretty much agree with the blockchain adoption timeline presented by R3’s Tim Grant at a recent conference (see the photo below). Indeed, the theme for this year’s Blockchain for Wall Street education day is focused on the transition from blockchain proof-of-concepts to pilots. At the event – on November 14th – we will be presenting awards related to the Blockchain Reality in Financial Markets Challenge, which we kicked off this month. The focus of that challenge is on real pilot projects.

Moving from PoCs to pilots means more than just improving the UX or adding some functionality. Pilots will need to run in enterprise IT environments and they will need to integrate with existing systems and databases. In essence, while they might be limited in scope, pilots are as real as the systems that they will sit alongside in corporate datacenters. For this reason, I prefer to refer to them as “production pilots.”
 
Public cloud services can ease the deployment burden for PoCs – and even for some production systems – but many applications will be deployed and managed in house and so lots of consideration needs to be given to so-called DevOps issues, which includes understanding container technology, such as Docker and Kubernetes.


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