diff --git a/collections/tech/innovations/zstor_innovation_short.md b/collections/tech/innovations/zstor_innovation_short.md index 77f74c3..08677d0 100644 --- a/collections/tech/innovations/zstor_innovation_short.md +++ b/collections/tech/innovations/zstor_innovation_short.md @@ -1,40 +1,43 @@ -## Zero-Stor : a quantum safe backend storage system. +## Zero-Stor : A Quantum Safe Backend Storage System. -### Why? +### The Problem Traditional backend storage systems have their roots in centralized environments, focusing on low-latency and closed security setups. However, these characteristics make them less suitable for use in decentralized cloud contexts. -Newer-generation storage systems like protocol-driven or blockchain-based solutions may face scalability and performance limitations and may not fulfill certain critical requirements that we consider essential. +Newer generation storage systems such as protocol-driven or blockchain-based solutions may face scalability and performance limitations and may not fulfill certain critical requirements that we consider essential. -### What? +### Introducing Zero-Stor -A redesigned storage system which can scale to planet level, is super secure private and fast enough for more usecases. Its designed to operate in a decentralized context. Data can never be lost of corrupted. +A redesigned storage system which can scale to planet level. It is super secure, private and fast enough for more use cases. It is designed to operate in a decentralized context and data can never be lost or corrupted. -This storage system is a backend storage system, cannot be used by end users, its meant to be integrated with a front end storage system like e.g. S3 or a filesystem (see next section). +This storage system is: +- A backend storage system +- It cannot be used by end users +- It's meant to be integrated with a front end storage system like e.g. S3 or a filesystem (see next section). -### Benefits? +### The Benefits -- **Data Resilience:** Ensures data is never lost or corrupted. -- **Planetary Scalability:** Capable of scaling to a global level. -- **Cost-Efficient:** Offers exceptional cost efficiency. -- **Versatility:** Suitable for various use cases, including archiving, backup, files, and CDNs. -- **Low Overhead:** Requires only a 20% overhead for building a storage network where any four nodes can be lost simultaneously, compared to a 400% overhead in traditional storage systems. -- **Security and Privacy:** Provides robust security, even impervious to quantum computers. -- **Data Sovereignty:** Users have complete control over data placement. -- **Empowering Front-End Applications:** Can be integrated into various front-end storage applications, such as blockchains, archives, or S3. -- **CDN Support:** Functions effectively as a backend for CDN applications, facilitating content delivery. -- **Sustainability:** Uses 10 times less energy compared to traditional storage systems, contributing to sustainability efforts. -- **Locality Aware:** Data can be delivered to where the users are ideal for sovereign usecases. +- **Data resilience:** ensures data is never lost or corrupted. +- **Planetary scalability:** capable of scaling to a global level. +- **Cost-efficient:** offers exceptional cost efficiency. +- **Versatility:** suitable for various use cases, including archiving, backup, files, and CDNs. +- **Low overhead:** requires only a 20% overhead for building a storage network where any four nodes can be lost simultaneously, compared to a 400% overhead in traditional storage systems. +- **Security and privacy:** provides robust security and is even impervious to quantum computers. +- **Data sovereignty:** users have complete control over data placement. +- **Empowering front-end applications:** can be integrated into various front-end storage applications, such as blockchains, archives, or S3. +- **CDN support:** functions effectively as a backend for CDN applications, facilitating content delivery. +- **Sustainability:** uses 10 times less energy compared to traditional storage systems, contributing to sustainability efforts. +- **Locality aware:** data can be delivered to where the users are which is ideal for sovereign use cases. -### Status? +### Status - Zero-OS has been in beta for over four years, with continuous development and improvement. - A notable deployment in Switzerland, with over 50 petabytes of storage capacity, served as a substantial test environment, although it's no longer active. -- Within the current TFGrid network, there's an impressive capacity of over 20 petabytes available for use. -- Lacking some monitoring, documentation ... will be added in TFGrid 3.15 +- Within the current TFGrid network, there is an impressive capacity of over 20 petabytes available for use. +- Lacking some monitoring but documentation will be added in TFGrid 3.15 - Previous releases have been successfully utilized by major government organizations on a massive scale (hundreds of petabytes), providing strong evidence of the concept's viability and effectiveness.