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by kevinAtStorj 2716 days ago
I find it interesting that the price of storage has essentially flatlined for the past five years, although the cost of hard drives have decreased by about 50 percent over that same timeframe dollar-per-gigabyte (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2017/12/20/digital-...).

Innovations at the 'business' layer may be the best way to compete with AWS, in the way that it captures a large chunk of value generated through OSS. Decentralized cloud platforms essentially take the principles of open source and apply them to the very infrastructure on which software runs.

At Storj, for example, we have an Open Source Partner Program that attempts to solve the ‘Amazon Problem’ by enabling any open source project to generate revenue every time their end users store data in the cloud.

Storj tracks usage on the network and returns a significant portion of the revenue earned when data from an open source project is stored on the platform. Critically, this enables open source projects to derive sustainable revenue from usage, whether by commercial customers or non-paying open source users.

In my opinion, this can help drive and support the next wave of Open Source monetization models (essentially through this concept of 'Commoditize Your Complement" - where the complement is cloud consumption)
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AmericanChopper 2716 days ago
Perhaps this is a good idea in theory, but it’s lacking in implementation. Having used Storj in the past, I’ve found it to be the least reliable service I’ve ever used. The SLA excludes events beyond your control, which sadly includes the availability of your storage network. I wouldn’t say this solution is even close to being production ready.
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kevinStorj 2716 days ago
Storj has spent the last year rebuilding the entire network after hiring JT Olio (Director of Engineering) Ben Golub (Interim CEO, previously CEO of Docker).

The V3 Network is leaps and bounds more performant and economical than the V2 Network. It is compatible with the S3 bucket-object store and is an easy shift for applications already using S3 as an object store layer. You can speed test it vs S3 using the ./cmd/s3-benchmark tool in our distro.

Try it out for yourself: https://storj.io/blog/2019/01/getting-started-with-the-storj...

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