Storj Town Hall - November 14, 2024

[jammerdan]

@snorkel

This sounds like a money grab for government. Each agency puts out its own standards just to grab more money for certification. Why not unite all of these requirements under one roof?

It looks like Wasabi is doing that with its cloud for the public sector: [link removed] and its GovCloud: [link removed]
meeting the FedRAMP® compliance standards.

In the wake of the Russian attack against the Ukraine there was already discussion here, if something similar, e.g. protecting data from government and institutions, could be an interesting business opportunity for Storj:

Amazon moving 10 Petabytes of Ukrainian critical data into their cloud

The last paragraph is interesting as they are even turning their support into new business: Since the project began, other countries have told Amazon they’re interested in out-of-the-country cloud backups of government data. Maxwell wouldn’t say which countries but noted keen interest from East Asia.

Ukrainian archivists scan documents around the clock for fear of Russian ‘archivocide’

In Kyiv and elsewhere, archive staff are working round the clock to scan documents and to move digitised material on to servers abroad. Maybe Storj can offer storage space to Ukrainians where storage space is needed?