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Tweet Following many months of work by the project’s members, the open-source distributed ledger Hyperledger Fabric has reached version 1.0 and is now ready for implementation in production environments. Read more… Neowin

Tweet IBM has launched its IBM blockchain, based on Hyperledger Fabric. Several companies will be deploying IBM blockchain on their networks this year, including Energy-Blockchain Labs from China. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers) of an overall private cloud solution. This document provides customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 operating system. This document provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network, storage, and virtualization…

Tweet The Department of Energy’s high-risk early stage grant program, ARPA-E, has announced 66 new energy-related projects that will get small amounts of funding and mentorship from the DOE. ARPA-E said that it will give 66 groups — from universities, to startups, to government labs to large companies — a combined $ 130 million through its Open 2012 program to help them with cutting edge innovation around cleaner and more…

Tweet There’s a huge amount the cloud can do, but is it there yet for big data? On Tuesday at GigaOM’s Structure Europe, Equinix CTO Lane Patterson joined business and technology journalist Stephen Pritchard to explain why he thinks there’s still a big advantage to having a private Hadoop cloud. A video of that conversation appears below. GigaOM