[en] Enterprises have been attracted by the capability of blockchains to provide a single source of truth for workloads that span companies, geographies, and clouds while retaining the independence of each party’s IT operations. However, so far production applications have remained rare, stymied by technical limitations of existing blockchain technologies and challenges with their integration into enterprises’ IT systems. In this paper, we collect enterprises’ requirements on distributed ledgers for data sharing and integration from a technical perspective, argue that they are not sufficiently addressed by available blockchain frameworks, and propose a novel distributed ledger design that is “serverless”, i.e., built on cloud-native resources. We evaluate its qualitative and quantitative properties and give evidence that enterprises already
heavily reliant on cloud service providers would consider such an approach acceptable, particularly if it offers ease of deployment, low transactional cost structure, and a combination of latency and scalability aligned with real-time IT application needs.
Disciplines :
Computer science Management information systems
Author, co-author :
Sedlmeir, Johannes ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
Wagner, Tim
Djerekarov, Emil
Green, Ryan
Klepsch, Johannes
Rao, Shruthi
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
A serverless distributed ledger for enterprises
Publication date :
04 January 2022
Event name :
HICSS 2022
Event place :
United States - Hawaii
Event date :
January 3rd 2022 to January 6th 2022
Audience :
International
Journal title :
Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences