kevinAtStorj

I find it interesting that while the price of hard drives has decreased by about 50 percent over the past five years, the price of cloud storage has remained roughly flat.

As margin continues to expand, the need for alternative models and competition in 'Cloud' is becoming increasingly apparent.

https://storj.io/blog/2018/11/the-high-price-of-traditional-...

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)

Hi all, I wrote up a walk through on running a test environment on the Storj network. The Storj test network (storj-sdk) enables you to run all the components of the Storj platform (Satellite, Uplink client, and storage nodes) and test them on your local machine.

It walks through the Minio GUI, Uplink CLI, and S3 Gateway and how to successfully upload/download data and stream a 4k video.

I built this guide for people who want to try out Storj's decentralized cloud storage platform, in a step-by-step, hand-held fashion and thought some folks here might like it. Let me know what you think!

Check out: https://storj.io/blog/2018/08/enabling-economic-empowerment-...

While traditional cloud providers have certainly made it difficult for open source companies to monetize the cloud, it seems that the marriage between decentralized cloud protocols and open-source is opening up new opportunities for OSS monetization.

Decentralization takes the principles of open source and applies 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.