Stanislav Shalunov: Will P2P change storage?

P2P is already changing the filesystem panorama. Right now, Dropbox is the hype but the real rocket sauce is in Wuala [1], which was recently bought by Lacie. I can see, in the near future, a wave of external "disks" bundled with the Wuala filesystem offering loads of gigs "for free".

Also, I've been trying other P2P storage solutions like Tahoe[2] and totally loved it. It's GPL, Twisted based, portable and very easy to install.

[1] http://wua.la + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xKZ4KGkQY8 [2] http://allmydata.org/

In 2001 Bram Cohen worked on P2P storage system Mojo Nation. After it ran out of money he created BitTorrent. Now a BitTorrent employee suggests that P2P could be used for storage, completing the cycle.