Ocean Protocol partner with Altoros to unlock a new Data economy HSV GTS Follow Jan 17 · 11 min read

What is Ocean Protocol?

Ocean Protocol is a tokenized service layer that exposes data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption with a set of deterministic proofs on availability and integrity that serve as verifiable service agreements. There is staking on services to signal quality, reputation and ward against Sybil Attacks.

Ocean helps to unlock data, particularly for AI. It is designed for scale and uses blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner.

How does Ocean Protocol work?

Ocean Protocol is at once a business, technical, and governance framework that is interwoven together to allow data and services to be shared and sold, in a secure manner. Ocean Protocol stores metadata, links to data, provides a licensing framework and has toolsets for pricing. A multitude of data marketplaces can hook into Ocean Protocol to provide “last mile” services to connect data providers and consumers. Ocean Protocol is designed so that data owners cannot be locked-in to any single marketplace. The data owner controls each dataset.

What problem does Ocean Protocol solve?

Ocean Protocol unlocks data so it can be used productively.

The world’s data is growing exponentially yet is massively under-utilized. Most companies have tremendous amounts of data, but have difficulty exploiting it. Conversely, many others are starving for data, particularly in AI. Ocean Protocol allows data providers to share data, while maintaining control and having transparency.

Who are the main participants in Ocean Protocol?

The main actors in Ocean Protocol are data providers, data consumers, data marketplaces, service providers and network keepers. Data providers offer data. Data consumers obtain data for their own use. Data marketplaces connect data producers and data consumers. Service providers provision computation, storage and algorithms for sale. Network keepers support Ocean’s protocol by running nodes within the network. Please refer to our Marketplace Framework for more details.

What is Ocean Protocol Foundation?

It is a Singapore based non-profit foundation. Its mandate is to ensure open access to the protocol and platform, provide long-term governance, community and ecosystem, and be a custodian of funds raised. DEX Pte Ltd and BigchainDB GmBH are the founders of Ocean Protocol Foundation Limited.

Today Ocean Protocol tweeted about their new exciting partnership with Altoros, below was the tweet:

We would like to thank the Altoros team for their time this week working with us in Berlin. We look forward to covering our exciting new partnership in more detail in the coming weeks, where we will be working together to help unlock a new data economy.

Who are Altoros and what do they do ?.

Altoros want to make cloud, blockchain and artificial intelligence work for your business.

Altoros is a professional services company that helped 50+ Global 2000 organizations to obtain sustainable competitive advantage through the adoption of innovative technologies and top-notch enterprise solutions. We offer methodology, custom training, technology building blocks, and deep industry knowledge for cloud automation, microservices, blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Meet Altoros Management Team

We are proud of our key drivers who contribute to the comany’s competitive advantage on the IT services market.

FOUNDER AND CEO

Renat is founder & CEO of Altoros, and Venture Partner at Runa Capital. Renat helps define Altoros’s strategic vision, and its role in Cloud Foundry PaaS ecosystem. In the past, Renat has been selected as finalist for the Emerging Executive of the Year award by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and once won an IBM Business Mashup Challenge. Prior to founding Altoros, Renat was VP of Engineering for Tampa-based insurance company PriMed. Renat is also founder of Apatar, an open source data integration toolset, founder of Silicon Valley NewSQL User Group and co-founder of the Belarusian Java User Group. He studied Engineering at Belarusian National Technical University.

PRESIDENT AND CTO

With 10+ years in the software development industry, Andrei serves as President and Chief Technology Officer at Altoros. Under his supervision, the engineering team has grown from zero to more than 250 specialists across seven global locations. Currently, he is responsible for technology alliances in Big Data and PaaS. Andrei has successfully implemented strategies for software product development, marketing, motivation systems, personnel performance management, and team building.

CEO OF ALTOROS NORGE AS

Since joining Altoros, Jan-Terje Nordlien has helped the company establish and develop a branch office in Norway, Altoros Norge AS. His 15+ years in the enterprise software industry have helped him successfully define and implement the company’s technical and business strategy for the Nordic market. Prior to joining Altoros, Mr. Nordlien was Head of the Mobile Workforce department at Locus, where he was responsible for building a new mobile platform using cutting-edge technologies and architectures. Earlier in his career, Mr. Nordlien worked as CTO Norway and Product Manager at Consafe Logistics, as Product Specialist at Sybase, and as Senior Consultant at Accenture. Mr. Nordlien holds a degree in Information Technology from Høgskolen i Hedmark.

COUNTRY MANAGER FINLAND

Ari Mutanen is running Altoros business operations in Finland. He has been working in software development industry for 20+ years in different international positions: heading customer services, business development, sales, and marketing. Prior to this, Ari has been working for CGI, TeliaSonera, Comptel, and Cybercom. Ari is helping customers in Finland and Nordic countries to digitize their business processes and revenue streams and explore totally new business areas (e.g., Big Data and IoT), utilizing modern technologies, such as blockchain, machine learning, and Cloud Foundry (PaaS). He aims at bolstering Altoros position in Northern Europe, building viable customer and partner network and making Altoros services and solutions available.

Why Altoros

As an early adopter of Cloud Foundry, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, Altoros offers a large scale of services and enterprise solutions across these innovative technologies.

Cloud Foundry

Altoros integrates software assembly lines into large organisation by deploying solutions offered by the cloud foundry ecosystem.

Our customers are among the first to create and monetize application-driven competitive advantages with cloud foundry.

Kubernetes Implementation

With extensive experience in implementation production-grade container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes cloud platform and Mesos), Altoros provides companies with enterprise-level frameworks for container integration and management with a focus on availability, scaling and networking.

Blockchain-based solutions and professional services

Being a general member of the Hyperledger project, Altoros helps organisations to implement enterprise blockchain systems and production-grade solutions driven by permissioned and public blockchain networks.

We are enthusiastic contributors to open-source blockchain initiatives, which inspire new business models across industries. Enabling knowledge transfer we help our customers to gain competitive advantages.

Artificial Intelligence end-to-end solutions

The AI development team at Altoros has experience in providing natural language processing , visual recognition, sentiment analysis, robotic process automation, behaviour analytics, recommendation systems and other machine learning services. We are actively involved in research and development activities and open-source contributions.

Enterprise training

Altoros offer both public classroom courses for individuals and custom onsite training for corporate teams. You may choose from a great range of the cloud foundry training programs for developers and DevOps.

To learn how to design microservices applications, you may check out our microservices training. If you want to learn Kubernetes fundamentals or get a deep dive we offer Kubernetes training courses to you.

For blockchain enthusiasts, Altoros delivers Hyperledger training.

For all those interested in artificial intelligence, Altoros offers comprehensive applied training courses in machine learning.

Altoros contributed to 50+Open source Projects

Standing behind some of the worlds largest cloud foundry deployments, Altoros has also contributed to 50+ open-source projects, including Cloud Foundry Cassandra service broker, a boilerplate for Cloud Foundry Service Broker and a Bosch scalable ELK release, (Juju charms automation etc).

Altoros is an active member of the Cloud Foundry Community

Being a silver member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, our company provides sponsorship for the annual CF summits since 2014.

Altoros is also a strategic partner of Pivotal- a provider of the leading commercial distribution of Cloud Foundry.

Cloud Foundry Monitoring Solutions and PCF Title Development

Contributing to the ecosystem of the PCF tiles-integrations of third-party services for the pivotal platform-Altoros has released five titles for:

Jenkins - https://pivotal.io/platform/services-marketplace/devops-tooling/altoros-jenkins

- https://pivotal.io/platform/services-marketplace/devops-tooling/altoros-jenkins Logsearch - https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-log-search

- https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-log-search Cassandra - https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-cassandra

- https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-cassandra Elasticsearch - https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-elasticsearch

- https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-elasticsearch AWS S3- https://network.pivotal.io/products/altoros-aws-s3

Custom Software Development Professional Services

Altoros helps businesses to discover new opportunities and reach their digital transformation goals faster through reliable custom software development services.

Our experienced team of developers, analysts and QA engineers deeply examine, create and implement custom software solutions tailored to your business needs, as well as focus on automating the existing workflows and facilitating your business process development.

Our customers are Fortune 500 companies that launch and monetize top-notch applications and systems in weeks and days-instead of months and years. Be among the market leaders with Altoros!.

What our customers say

We have worked closely with Altoros since the fall of 2006 and they have shown expert skills and good business understanding along with the ability to familiarize themselves with new technology. We look at Altoros as an extended development team with advanced business skills that can be reused in our new projects.

Thomas Hamm, CEO at Consafe Logistics AS

We highly recommend Altoros to rapidly build complex applications using cutting edge technologies. Again, great job.

Christopher Adorna, Sony design centre, SONY

I really loved the training, its hands-on nature was essential in learning BOSCH, which is everybody knows very complicated.

I think it was thorough and informative and I would totally recommend it to any potential customer who is looking at, trying to use or setting up Cloud Foundry.

Wes Gruver, Consulting instructor, Pivotal

What Altoros offer

Altoros combines rare-to-find subject-matter development expertise and tech talent with extensive experience in helping businesses to stay innovative in the rapidly changing market. Want to build your sustainable competitive advantage in the cloud, blockchain, or AI technology? Bring us in.

Cloud Foundry services

Altoros has emerged as one of the largest teams of the Cloud Foundry architects and engineers in the market proficient in the open-source Cloud Foundry technology and its commercial distributions. The experienced Cloud Foundry team at Altoros can provide:

“All-covered” platform implementation services from evaluation and planning through a platform deployment and third-party services integration to Day 2 operations and support.

Assistance in migrating the associated workloads to cloud-native environments: application replatforming and migration services, CI/CD setup, and custom training courses for your team in key technologies.

A reliable partnership and expertise in a well-established practice around cloud-native technologies and a significant commitment to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

An advanced partnership for Pivotal Cloud Foundry driving awareness, growth, and adoption of services and solutions based on the technology.

Blockchain development services

Being a general member of the Hyperledger project, Altoros has naturally established a department, specializing in blockchain development services. We are uncovering the decentralized paradigm and value for the customers, seeking to improve security, consolidate multiple systems and data flows, as well as to streamline business processes.

An experienced team of blockchain developers will guide a customer through the platform evaluation, helping to choose an optimal enterprise solution to address business needs using the distributed ledger technology.

Altoros has successfully implemented 15+ successful blockchain solutions for its enterprise customers.

We are contributing to open source, including the Hyperledger Project.

We’ve delivered various PoC, MVP, and production-grade blockchain solutions.

We assisted 19 companies in adopting the distributed ledger (DLT) technology and delivering competitive advantage by utilizing the benefits of permissioned blockchain.

We trained 500+ people worldwide, both business and technical teams, sharing best practices in employing blockchain.

Artificial intelligence development services

As artificial intelligence is marching its way into every domain of business and life, Altoros helps companies to bring the power of the AI technology to take over mundane tasks or solve complex data-intensive problems. AI practice at Altoros embraces:

Altoros has experience in implementing AI solutions for various industries from retail and finance to manufacturing and energy sectors.

We actively collaborate with different healthcare agencies, provide training in the AI technology for medical personnel, and develop deep learning models for medical data analysis.

Altoros is an organizer numerous trainings, conferences, and competitions for business and technical teams. We actively participate in AI conferences of different scale.

We carry out research and development activities, using, exploring, and advancing state-of-the-art methods in the field.

Altoros is an early adopter of TensorFlow and the author behind a number of independent benchmarks in the machine learning.

Altoros developed the TensorFlow-as-a-Service solution that enables data scientists to easily install a ready-to-go cloud environment for using TensorFlow, run scripts, and visualize task execution results.

Meet our partners

Altoros has partnered with top IT industry leaders to accelerate the level of technical expertise, access best practices, and build full-scale solutions for our customers.