From instinct to intelligence, human beings have undergone earth-shaking changes for thousands of years, and the same is true for storage.

Modern data storage has gone through about a hundred years, how could people 100 years ago think of it nowIOPS (Storage Device Performance Index)What about all-flash arrays that can reach more than 2 million?

The so-called "curiosity makes people progress, boring makes people lag behind". From the original way of recording information, our ancestors have explored for tens of thousands of years, to the current era of intelligent storage, and the era of super intelligent storage in the future, constantly urging us to dare to create innovative technologies that do not stick to one pattern.

The most terrifying thing in the world is not being punished for making mistakes in front of you, but being satisfied with the status quo and not moving forward. This is true of human development, so is the development of society, and so is the development of technology.

Since the development of the Internet, it has reached a new bottleneck point, and there have been no major technological breakthroughs in recent years. With the growth of data traffic, most of the data storage in modern life is facing the problem of centralization, and problems such as privacy leakage, low server security, censorship, and operation termination caused by centralized storage are also worrisome.

Problems must be solved, and what problems bring is not hesitation, but the driving force for development. The same is true for the emergence of Filecoin.

As a decentralized distributed storage network for the most important information of mankind, Filecoin's mission is to decentralize and disrupt the highly centralized cloud storage market.

The Filecoin network was developed to bypass existing cloud storage providers and their business models, bundling relatively cheap, scalable data storage with expensive proprietary software, APIs, servers, and other infrastructure.

With the amount of stored data approaching hundreds of ZB, it can continue to provide huge profits for the current Web 2.0 storage platform, including infrastructure, platform and hosted private cloud services,The size of the cloud storage market is estimated to be between $46 billion and $96 billion.

And such a large storage market is only concentrated in the hands of a few monopoly enterprise groups.

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, along with Chinese cloud giants Alibaba and Tencent account for about two-thirds of the global cloud storage market, according to a report by Synergy Research Group.

To put it simply, the data information of most enterprises is now stored in these major service providers, all data storage pricing power is controlled by them, and end users have no right to negotiate prices, so the current cloud storage is an oligopoly.

Filecoin, on the other hand, uses blockchain technology to allow users to negotiate directly with encrypted token "miners." The blockchain framework allows consumers to identify and authenticate local storage facilities and negotiate prices through the agreement platform.

At the same time, the Filecoin decentralized model corresponds to the current approach, which generally hosts and stores user data in regional data centers at a fixed rate.

The launch of the Filecoin mainnet marks the beginning of its practical application.

In the Fileocin network, encrypted currency transactions are broadcast, verified and recorded in the distributed ledger through the network. Fundamentally, the Filecoin decentralized network aims to eliminate the "middle man", that is,Large public cloud providers.

The Web 2.0 business model promotes the transformation of enterprises to multi-cloud deployments. More decentralized cloud deployments can avoid vendor lock-in, and Filecoin will further advance this strategy by creating a decentralized storage network, upgrading Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, the Filecoin protocol supports up to 32 Gb of storage "sectors" and up to 18 months can increase the feasibility of this goal.

The uniqueness of Filecoin is that it allows customers to have their ownPricing power and bargaining power,It breaks the dictatorial pricing mechanism of centralized cloud storage providers and returns to the original intention of the market dominating the economy. In the long run, this will undoubtedly benefit the healthy development and progress of the data storage industry.

So far, Filecoin has attracted more than 600 miners, and the storage space has exceeded 600PiB. It is believed that with the launch of the main network, the actual implementation of applications, and the real transaction between storage demanders and providers, there will be more More miners and clients come in.

Filecoin mentioned in the economic report released in August"Distribution of storage enables local optimization", This also ensures that Filecoin can effectively convey various types of information in the future, and will respond faster than centralized storage platforms. At the same time, local optimization can make big data storage closer to users, without relying on large regional data operators.

Publisher: Chengdu Tianyue Cloud Computing

Release time: November 12, 2020