International Business Machines Corporation
Blockchain managed storage

Abstract:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to open a storage system, the request comprising an identification of a user that submitted the request, transmitting a notification to one or more stakeholder devices of the storage system indicating the user requests access to the storage system, receiving responses from the one or more stakeholder devices, determining, via a smart contract executing on a blockchain node associated with the storage system, whether to open the storage system based on the received responses and consensus information included in the smart contract, and storing the determination made by the smart contract as a transaction in a blockchain.