With the launch of the Filecoin mainnet, distributed storage technology has been pushed to a whole new level. Unlike the traditional Web2.0 digital age, the digital economic infrastructure of the Web3.0 era, and the advent of the distributed storage era will bring a new pattern and new business model to the storage market. V|jasonbody
But for the distributed industry, breaking the traditional storage method is just a starting point, and the generation and realization of distributed value lies in its next development.
The birth of IPFS/Filecoin has brought a brand new business model and economic format to the storage market, but this is only an important starting point, and the real value is yet to come. The explosion of new technologies such as big data and the explosion of stored data is the home of Filecoin.
If data wants to be valuable, it must be reflected in a certain magnitude and continuous growth, and then the use of the data will generate value.
The explosive growth of data
With the development of 5G, AI, Internet of Things, short video, and social media, the era of the Internet of Everything is coming. A large amount of personal and corporate information needs to be recorded and expressed in data. At that time, data will shift from single internal small data to multiple dynamics and big data. Especially the industrial Internet 4.0 and the access of new industrial terminal equipment such as unmanned driving, smart city, smart home and so on, the data will show explosive growth.
According to Intel's forecast, the total amount of global data will reach 44ZB in 2020, while the amount of data generated in China alone will reach 8ZB. This amount of data accounts for one-fifth of the total amount of data in the world, which is a huge amount of data.
At present, with the rapid development of technology industries such as cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things, the growth rate of data traffic is accelerating, and the pressure on data centers is increasing. And daily life such as social networking, search, e-commerce, mobile APP, etc. are constantly generating traffic.
In recent years, with the development of Internet technology, according to statistics from relevant organizations, since 2012, my country's annual data volume has been growing rapidly, and the annual total data growth rate has been above 50%.
Since the Internet environment has changed from a text-based form to an audio-visual form, the amount of data on the Internet has also become a fast-growing state. This is also the reason for the explosion of traffic, especially the emerging services derived from it, which makes data increasingly important Highlight.
With the help of a decentralized business model, distributed storage initially realizes the idea that data producers and owners control data, and uses incentive models to mobilize a potentially very large and active data storage market. Data itself has no value. It can only produce value after processing, calculation and analysis, and will have corresponding value.
And the place where data is placed is also very important, and we should develop data, mine data, and the value of data under distributed storage.
Especially as the amount of data increases day by day, the related big data industry has become a hot industry in recent years. The battle of computing power has intensified, from the early manual code compilation and calculation, to the functional microservices of module scripts, and to respond to high concurrent data. Computing, as well as the emergence of specialized IDC data centers, are to further release the long-term value of resources and configure machines as services. This has become the prototype of cloud computing that we often mention now.
Cloud computing brings unexpected convenience. Computers do not need to install various software, and only need to access the "cloud". Internet giants can provide ready-made computing capabilities. At the same time, cloud storage services are also used by more people or companies. what is needed.
In recent years, the monopolistic development of Internet giants has allowed data storage resources to be concentrated in the hands of a few Internet giants, including storage resources, computing power, and so on. However, this centralized storage method cannot be open and transparent, and it is vulnerable to attacks. In addition, there are inevitably high latency, network instability, and low bandwidth in the process of data collection to the cloud center. This will cause data efficiency to decrease in the context of the Internet environment where the amount of data is exploding.
Distributed storage can provide nearby storage services to global access nodes, and provide the best and closest storage resources on demand and in quantity, reduce bandwidth costs, and increase storage response speed to achieve near-distance on-demand optimized storage. It satisfies various application scenarios and stimulates users' enthusiasm to make full use of data to create value.
The personal storage market and small data centers will become industry trends. In 2020, the number of Internet users in China will be more than 900 million, while the number of mobile Internet users will reach 1.3 billion, and the monthly active users of personal online disks will exceed 100 million. The personal storage market still has a huge potential user base and available storage space.
Let's take a long-term view. In the future, IPFS/Filecoin will become the basic protocol for the storage of new technologies in the digitized world. Data will become an important resource like real estate and land, and the houses for storing data will also increase accordingly.