Let’s cut to the chase. Blockchain is a combination of four existing technologies put together to create something new. These technologies are well-known:

 As regulations require asset owners to provide increasing levels of investment transparency, Northern Trust announced today it has collaborated with Interactive Data (IDC) to enhance its support for fair value level determination for fixed income securities. 

The app runs on storage and access devices and allows these nodes to connect autonomously through routers and firewalls. Content nodes can form clusters for high availability and load balancing.

Access nodes such as a PC can synchronize content or access it remotely from your regular explorer window. Nodes communicate with each other to form an intelligent storage network that avoids single points of failure. Enterprises can run their own storage machines to keep the network fully private or can include encrypted cloud servers for more flexibility.

New government research shows nearly two-thirds of large UK businesses have suffered a cyber-attack, yet only 17 per cent of UK firms have trained staff in this area over the past year. As policy experts meet tomorrow in London to bring fresh ideas to the table, The Open University warns that training must become more central to businesses’ cyber-security efforts.