They pronounce it Skyne-tay now.
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That is intensional. I was lucky to be on this conference a year earlier. I was also questioning the wording the sales people are demonstrating. Well on that conference it was my turn to answer customer question. Turns out if you tell these customers that the data is uploaded to raspberry pi nodes and better the conversation is over before you can explain end to end encryption and reed solomon encoding. Even if you say people like you and me might run a server at home they run away the moment you finish that sentence. Do you know how you can get them to join the network? Just say datacenter nodes all over the world, explain how the above mentioned features make a great 0 trust system and at the end extend the scope and explain that with our solution even a raspberry pi can participate and doesnât put the customer data at risk. Thats what the sales team is good at. Approach the customer and have a conversation. Tell them everything they need to know in the order that works best for that. So you might call it a little sales lie but only as a door opener and just minutes later in the conversation the customer will get the full picture.
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There is no lie. Data is indeed stored in the datacenters across the world.
There is not even need to bend the meaning of the word âdatacenterâ to include aforementioned âpoints of presenceâ: my shed in the yard where I house computer systems and associated communication and storage equipment is a datacenter, by definition, and storj has presence there.
Nobody claimed that all datacenters are hyperscalers, and critical audience can deduce that 23000 points of presence must involve something else besides Amazon and Google warehouses in Reno, NV.
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If you enter âdata centerâ into a translation software for German, you get âDatenzentrumâ, âRechenzentrumâ, Datencenter", âDatenzentraleâ.
None of these words you would use in German language to describe a Raspberry Pi in a basement at home.
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Too bad for the Germans around hereâŚ
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Germany has, unironically, the second highest number of nodes, ahead of the US.
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That I thought also listening to it; better to not get into details and stick to basics just to give a general ideea to a not-so-techincal audience. If you get to technical, you loose almost all their attention. And for the tech guys, they donât need a speach to a conference to understand whatâs what. They go to the source and read white papers and github repos. So getting to technical to a general audience conference dosenât realy make sense.
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Okaaaaay soooo maybe would You like to pull up some i donât know egress from the Public network? just to support some basics for the nodes this month, coz right now the 10th month is looking very sleepy, disks being emptied, to be ready, but You could pull some traffic maybe to compensate just a little bit, You know, ooooor we could accept any x2, x3 surge in thanks for our great fraternal cooperation that in the end resulted in improving the network and on-boarding a 1B unicorn customer, just too bad that not on our SNOs disks, You know.
If SLC is being used to reserve capacity for 2-3 months worth of projected growth⌠then if itâs slow now itâs probably because they already have enough extra space available.
No use paying SNOs for space that wonât get sold soon.
Not too surprising. After everyone was rushing to add capacity for test data Storj now has plenty of available space. Probably more than they would have dreamed of.
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Maybe the term âstorage locationsâ could be used. It sounds very generic and could be anything.
He did it again⌠
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To me it doesnât look like that is going to happen. The incentive internally seems to be a positive unit economics. I donât track the actual numbers but as far as I understand any kind of subvention including filling the nodes with test data would work against that. The only exception for this would be for onboard a bigger customer. There the short term extra cost might be covered by the long term payments of that customer.
This metric includes the storj select nodes we are adding to the network. I hope at some point the metrics will differenciate between public and storj select network. Right now they donât and to make things worse there are even storj select nodes on all satellites. The best reading you might get from the EU satellite since there the number of storj select nodes is still low.
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Why is this still unsolved?
We want to be taken serious by clients, but even the official statistics are wrong?
How hard can it be to make 2 graphs, 1 for public network, 1 for the other?
We would at least donât have more of this, because they (SNOs) have wrong impressions:
https://forum.storj.io/t/farming-preparation/28209?u=snorkel
Please, make it a priority!
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to be honest if you would be developer, you would know, that there is always 100 different tasks and every one speak that there task is more priority than other. you cant make them all and make all happy, first priority will always be features for people who pay money.
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Obviously there is only one network. 
Select seems to be implemented as a filter to the node selection.
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I would love to see the level of decentralization of the storj select nodes side. You cannot sell that Storj is âmuch better for the environment with a carbon footprint up to 83% less than hyperscalersâ, decentralized, âput unused storage space to work on a global networkâ, etc. and then have big customers using storj select nodes in datacenters in the US, not global atm.
Why? If customers want geo restriction â they get geo restriction. Itâs customer choice. You can make other choice and use public network.
Are you saying every customer MUST use every location to satisfyâŚ. what requirement exactly?
What is wrong with US datacenters? They are decentralized, and have tons of spare capacity.
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Aside from being only in the US, just nothing I would say. I would consider it a selling point for the remainder of the world: keep the pollution in the US
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