Very interesting indeed. What changes to the platform do you hope to bring to market with this acquisition?
Exactly what’s described in the blog.
You may also check these ones:
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Sees as if today I was the lazy user, two expected to be spoonfed with information. Sorry for that, and thank you for your ever vigilant comments, Alexey, you’re absolutely right.
Have a good day 
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No problem, we would copy the content, but why?
Of course, it could be the case if you would like to know details or need a translation for example to your native language - I think we can do so on request.
If anyone else, like me, lack the ability to press the link, here is the most exciting section to me:
By integrating cunoFS into our offerings, Storj customers across industries will now be able to use Storj for file storage based applications in addition to object storage. This vastly expands the use cases and customers for which Storj is a great choice. Because cunoFS works across a heterogeneous set of solutions, and distributed storage is inherently global and cross-data center in nature, this acquisition further expands the usefulness of our distributed storage, compute, and GPU offerings. Finally, cunoFS has Linux and Windows clients (a MacOS client is scheduled for later this year). So, customers can have an easy on-ramp to use Storj with a familiar “file and folder” based interface. (As much as we love object storage, most people are more inclined to think of files and folders with names).
That’s mental! Great pickup form the StorJ team
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Do you have a problem to click the link, or show the content?
No, not at all - the link works perfect. “lack the ability to press the link” is just my way of expressing my unhappyness with being outed as lazy in the first place
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Ok, so not a technical problem, thank you!
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To click it or not to click it?
This is the question? 
Maybe you are missing the “click the link” plug-in? Check your installed plug-ins, do an update&upgrade to your humanOS and reboot. Check back again.
I think I just need to run used-space-filewalker once or twice
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Let us know how much trash it finds.
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I’ve read all of it, but I still don’t see how is that different than rclone mount? What is competitive advantage here?
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The performance and more compatibility with POSIX. The problem of any object storage - it’s not a filesystem. cunoFS makes it happen, you may edit video from the bucket, with rclone you likely would have a problem (I didn’t try though). I can imagine, that you can even use it as a storage location for the node , it also can be used in k8s: Kubernetes CSI Driver — cunoFS Documentation
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Hmm.
Specifics?
VFS, that rclone uses, uis POSIX compatible. It gives you a local filesystem that is backed by the storage, with local caching. So you get SSD speeds for your working set, and there is no difference for apps. Better yet, recent version of rclone support local NFS mounting, as an alternative, which is far superior, because it does not require kernel extensions on OSes when VFS is not baked in.
Correct. Latencies are different and the whole approach to reliability is.
So does rclone mount, and many other third party tools, such as Mountain Duck, that can mount any cloud storage, not just storj.
I did. At some point I used rclone-mounted google drive as an infinite storage NAS. It was flawless, working set is cached locally more or les – I used 1TB cache, and even on slow connection it “just worked”.
Again, I dont’ see why would storage provider suddenly acquired a company that creates yet another mounting solution, that is not even available on most platforms. In other words – why should I, as a user, drop well established and stable rclone (or for UI aficionados – Mountain Duck), and pick some half-baked software from unknown vendor?
There must be reasons storj made the acquisition, but none of the proposed in this thread makes any sense. Storj does not owe us any explanation of course, but there is no reason to mislead and pretend that posix-compatible never-before-seen app is a holy grail worth acquiring another company for either. “We can’ tell you but we have our reasons” would have sufficed.
From what I have saw, cunoFS works faster than rclone mount, I do not have details of implementation or shareable link to comparison, but it is what I always heard when someone need a mounted FS from the bucket and wanted to have a higher performance than s3fs or rclone mount (S3).
https://cuno-cunofs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/stable/getting-started-enforced-posix.html
etc.
It’s of course up on you. And everything depends on the use case. For me personally rclone mount is good enough to have a mounted bucket to work with it as with a OneDrive in a cloud-only mode. I find it quite fast and reliable. I didn’t have errors during usage.
However, I do not have a requirement for it to be as fast as possible but using it like a local FS in the app, which doesn’t support connection to Storj either natively or at least S3-compatible. Some have, but they are strongly bind to AWS S3, where you cannot change the endpoint to point to another S3-compatible provider, but usually you can use a local FS. There are millions of use cases.
There is a strong demand to have the transfer as fast as possible and having access to the data as on a local FS (because their already implemented applications cannot work with S3, even not saying with Storj native) from companies who uses our GPUs for AI training and using Storj as a detachable volumes (the distributed computing, so shared access to the same data and it’s huge to copy over the network for a reasonable amount of time). There is also no proper k8s CSI driver for rclone, and s3fs is far from performance-friendly and still has issues.
Also some comparison: Technology – cunoFS, there is no rclone though.
And interacting in the CLI without FUSE also increases speed: Basic loading — cunoFS Documentation
This makes sense:
PetaGene’s customers include leading research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals, who use their products to collectively manage 100s of petabytes of data.
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You are correct too. This is also a nice opportunity to move their data out of AWS/Google/other
Hopefully, the Storj marketing team is already crafting a compelling welcome package for these new customers. This could include incentives such as free data migration, a complimentary trial period with free storage space, and a limited-time waiver of egress fees for those who make the switch quickly. By offering a seamless and cost-effective transition, Storj can make a strong first impression and set the stage for a long-term partnership.
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So this aquisition will bring us the most awaited Storj app for individual Dropbox-like use case?