Intel announces new product to accelerate blockchain deployment

Intel is seeking to make it easy for organizations to deploy blockchain technology with its new Intel Select Solutions offering.

In a solution brief published earlier this month, the company has unveiled “Intel Select Solution for Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric.”

Hyperledger Fabric provides a foundation for developing applications and solutions with a modular architecture.

Intel noted that organizations considering integrating blockchain face a number of challenges including deployment complexity, infrastructure overhaul, choosing the best platform for their business models, and scalability.

“To help address these concerns, the Intel Select Solution for Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric provides a verified, tested solution...that simplifies blockchain deployment on Hyperledger Fabric and adds modularity and enterprise-grade privacy for organizations seeking to build blockchain solutions,” it said.

The product will use the Intel Xeon Scalable processor platform, Intel SSDs, and Intel Ethernet Network Adapters. It will help enterprises to optimize price and performance while significantly reducing infrastructure evaluation time.

“When organizations choose the Intel Select Solution for Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric, they get a pre-tuned and tested configuration that is workload-optimized and proven to scale so that IT can deploy blockchain solutions quickly and efficiently with less tuning,” the document read.

Last November, Microsoft released a serverless Azure Blockchain Development kit. More recently, IBM launched its own Hyperledger-based blockchain platform, Cointelegraph reported.