Let me link to a suggestion I had made in the past where Storj could offer Storj DCS as storage solution:
We also had this in the past:
As already mentioned, research facilities and universities usually have already their solutions and they often have very very capable IT departments because they have the knowledge, the money and the people to build what they need on-premise. But still Storj might be a part of their solution for example when it comes to distribute datasets around the world.