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There are three relevant data trends. One, data is expected to grow from 33 ZB (zettabytes) today to 175 ZB in 5 years. Two, data breaches are a growing problem with $150M+ liability issues. Three, the cloud needs to move to the edge data centers for performance and availability, driven by IoT applications, multi-player gaming, autonomous vehicles, and content streaming. Decentralization accelerates this change and adoption, as it lowers deployment, management, and scale-out cost while providing better security, performance, and availability. 

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Collaborators (other groups)

This working group will collaborate with other Hyperledger working groups, the TSC, Linux Foundation staff, and the project maintainers. Especially the following Working Groups and their subgroups will be of great importance in achieving the anticipated results.

Workgroups

• Architecture Working Group

• Identity Working Group
  
• Performance and Scale Working Group
• Whitepaper Working Group

SIGs

• Healthcare SIG

• Public Sector SIG

• Social Impact SIG

• Trade Finance SIG

• Supply Chain SIG
• Capital Markets SIG

Interested Parties

The following individuals have already expressed an interest in joining this working group, and we hope they will become contributors over the first year:

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