How amazing would it be to begin truly competing for warm/cold storage data in the enterprise

[geeksheikh]

@TheMightyGreek

Well with more customers we could stop relying on test data to get a decent payout

This is an interesting point I hadn’t even considered.

I am a data scientist and work for a data science / big data company in San Francisco. We regularly work with hundreds of TB of data to solve problems across Google/AWS/Azure and their ecosystems. I have been working with data science and big data for nearly 7 years and have never even heard of STORJ. I still would be unfamiliar with it if it weren’t for my interest in crypto.

How amazing would it be to begin truly competing for warm/cold storage data in the enterprise. Based on the tardigrade website, it looks like that is the goal, yet, STORJ has not been successful in educating the target market. Is STORJ really ready for enterprise data? If so, what type of data?

I just did a google search for big data aws s3 competitor and scanned the first 5 page results, STORJ / tardigrade was nowhere to be found, even Alibaba cloud was there. There seems to be no native interoperability with Azure Data Lake or Google Cloud Storage. Many customers of ours are looking to alleviate cost pressure from traditional cloud storage vendors and to duplicate their data outside of a single cloud provider. Even if Tardigrade is not the immediate answer for warm/hot data, it seems like a great competitive option for cold storage like AWS Glacier.

I get this post may be better served on another forum thread (happy to repost) but I wanted to throw this out there given the current context and get additional thoughts.

FYI
The tardigrade.io website homepage never loaded after 5 minutes of waiting.

[nerdatwork]

@geeksheikh

Even if Tardigrade is not the immediate answer for warm/hot data, it seems like a great competitive option for cold storage like AWS Glacier.

Interesting read that might help you.

I just realised how expensive object storage is also Tardigrade

Every month I test my backup actually my data is 100 GB. And now I realised that this cost 4,5 $ every month. So maybe Tardigrade is a little to expensive compared to a fixed price storage account with now egress fees but fixed costs every month. What do others think.

[jammerdan]

@geeksheikh

I am a data scientist and work for a data science / big data company in San Francisco. We regularly work with hundreds of TB of data to solve problems across Google/AWS/Azure and their ecosystems.

Very interesting. Would love to hear more about that.
I have made many suggestions in the past which markets Storj Labs could target:

Has Storj ever looked into the cctv market?

We are seeing some actors on the cctv market and those could be interesting for Storj. Generally speaking, it is common to use the cloud for cctv recordings. There are manufacturers of cctvs and recording hardware or closed software, which could be interested to directly implement access to the Tardigrade network and maybe earn some comissions. Also there are cctv cloud provider like https://www.cameraftp.com/ that need a cloud infrastructure for their service, which also might be intereste…

The digital cinema as potential Tardigrade use case?

After seeing Storjlabs has targeted universities as potential customers, here is a suggestion for an industry that would be a hell of a customer. Will Storjlabs act on it? My doubts remain. But here is the suggestion: Ever wondered how cinemas receive the movies for their projectors? Unbelievable but true: Commonly they receive a movie as digital file on an external hard drive. Shipped physically via courier services. According to sources, in Germany alone thousands over thousands of these hard…

Targeting the public education sector, particular Germany

@jocelyn: And another one. This one is a bit complicated and would require some quick action. And here is why: The Covid-19 disease has revealed that schools in Germany are not really fit for digital learning and online teaching. There are some projects but with the massive number of students that needs to be served online during lockdowns, the current learning platforms cannot keep up with. So this sector currently receives massive public attention and there is a desperate search for solutions…

And there is more to come.

[Alexey]

I would like to post it here:

Free the Cloud With Hypernet Galileo and Tardigrade