DEVPN Privacy Storage

Challenging the Cloud Storage Market: Solving Privacy Issues

The corporate cloud storage market has evolved into a mature industry, thanks to its longevity and widespread adoption, which has brought several very positive outcomes for users and the IT industry.

The rise of cloud storage

Over the years, the cloud storage market has driven intense competition among hardware vendors and spurred many advancements in technology, resulting in more reliable and cost-effective hardware.

Cloud storage users benefit from a well-established infrastructure offering robust performance, extensive service options, and continuous improvements in features and security. One of the greatest advancements in the cloud market has been the shift towards open-source software development and a strong emphasis on partnerships between solution providers to deliver comprehensive user solutions.

In many ways, the development of the cloud storage market represents several essential milestones.

It includes numerous success stories from innovative decentralized teams and a long tradition of various hybrid formats working together, solidifying a mature Web2 landscape.

Cloud Storage maturity has paved the way for a healthy transition to Web3, which the internet is currently just starting, which means that users can access a reliable range of well developed services.

Cloud storage challenges

While there is much to applaud and little to improve from a technical standpoint, cloud storage has significant room for improvement in terms of privacy, especially regarding sensitive issues:

• Centralized control Traditional cloud providers operate their services based on a centralized point of control, which inherently creates a "single point of failure." This term is well-known in the IT industry as a red flag that indicates a significant and avoidable risk that has been a concern in computing for decades.

• Data surveillance Corporate cloud storage operates globally and thus falls under a complex web of legal jurisdictions. Many countries impose legal restrictions or limitations on its usage, either to enable widespread data surveillance or to prevent such actions by closing cross-border transfers entirely.

• Commercial usage of data Similar to VPN providers, many corporate cloud storage providers are either directly or indirectly involved in data brokering. Factors such as unclear terms of service, partnership agreements, third-party applications, and data breaches can all contribute to violations of user privacy.

• Limited transparency While the cloud market has excelled in collaboration, it is disappointing that the same cannot be said for transparency regarding data handling. Consumers often need to sift through fine print and legal jargon or are intentionally misled, resulting in little visibility into how their data is shared.

• Lack of true control Consumers have limited or no control over data management practices in corporate cloud storage. While this limitation may stem from good intentions, it can severely undermine consumer privacy, with actions such as data deletion not fully erasing information but merely hiding it inadequately.

• Lack of security Cloud storage customers are generally well-protected against threats the operators choose to recognize, such as external hackers. Providers however offer little to no protection against third parties such as ISPs, governmental organizations, and data brokers, who are often partners.

Cloud storage vs. decentralized Storage

The main similarity between traditional cloud storage and decentralized storage is that both allow users to securely store their data by using techniques like splitting, mirroring, and buffering. Both provide multiple protection layers, ensuring that data remains safe and cannot be lost or damaged.

The primary difference between traditional cloud storage and privacy focused decentralized storage lies in their underlying technical and organizational architecture, and in the control of each variant.

• Cloud storage Has a traditional centralized organisation and technical structure, meaning that your data is stored on storage devices that are controlled by a single organization who manages your access. Your data is securely stored across an array of multiple hard drives in a data center which creates a technical safety buffer to ensure your data remains safe, even if multiple hard drives should fail. Higher-priced solutions can also include premium measures, such as splitting data across multiple storage facilities in different physical locations. This provides protection by reducing the risk of data loss due to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, or long-term power outages.

• Decentralized storage Provides the same data safety, but also additionally distributes the data across a network of independent devices, which assures no single entity holds control over the entire system. This approach offers a higher level of data protection typically found only in premium corporate offerings and adds an extra layer of privacy that corporate entities are often unable to provide technically and unwilling to offer commercially to their users.

In short, decentralized storage, by design, adds extra layers of privacy compared to traditional cloud storage, making your data more secure, and private while being less susceptible to outages or attacks.

Decentralized storage challenges

Decentralized storage, while offering significant potential advantages in terms of security, privacy, and resilience, does not automatically guarantee a higher quality solution just because it is decentralized.

DEVPN equally emphasizes that the quality of decentralized storage in the market heavily depends on the devices and networks used to store and manage data. Factors such as the reliability of individual nodes, network speed, and the robustness of the underlying infrastructure play a highly crucial role.

Decentralized storage, as a newer model, offers significant benefits in terms of privacy and security. However, to provide a fair understanding of its pros and cons, it is important to educate users about the three common challenges that most decentralized storage providers face:

• Speed and latency Cloud storage is typically housed in centralized data centers with optimized infrastructure, resulting in faster data retrieval and lower latency. In contrast, decentralized storage distributes data across multiple nodes, where both the quality of the hardware and the geographical placement of these nodes significantly impact data retrieval times and connection latency.

• Data availability and reliability Cloud storage providers typically offer high availability and reliability through data center redundancy. In decentralized storage, ensuring data availability can be more challenging due to the potential issues arising from the complete offline status of individual nodes.

• Adoption and usability Cloud storage services are overall user-friendly, with well-established networks and support systems. In contrast, decentralized storage can be more complex for users to understand, offering interfaces and controls that are less intuitive and may lead to a poorer user experience.

DEVPN is committed to delivering the full benefits of decentralized privacy storage to our users.

Our storage solutions are designed to address the typical pitfalls of many existing decentralized storage providers, ensuring a user experience that maximizes the benefits without the drawbacks.

DEVPN privacy storage

DEVPN has carefully designed its privacy storage offerings by leveraging a professional technical network and harnessing the determination and financial power of decentralized finance investors.

This approach mirrors the successful leasing and ownership structures used in our Hybrid VPN network, ensuring a robust solution designed to compete as a high-quality commercial alternative.

While we deeply respect the contributions of ethical pioneers in the decentralized storage space and gratefully utilize parts of the technical advancements made in this field, DEVPN has deliberately chosen not to offer a traditional decentralized solution.

The largest difference between traditional dVPN networks and ours is that we explicitly exclude low-quality and low-to-moderate availability solutions from our hybrid storage network by default.

Instead, we focus exclusively on high-availability storage solutions, positioning ourselves to compete effectively with traditional cloud storage providers in the high-end market segment. We deliver superior performance, corporate-style reliability, and privacy that exceed current industry standards.

By offering users a superior alternative at competitive price levels, our decentralized organizational structure also allows us to convert corporate profit overhead into advantages for our investors.

Our community of $DEVPN investors and node owners benefits from a scalable ecosystem that fairly and consistently delivers a return on investment, surpassing all competitors in technical performance.

Data storage market growth

The global cloud storage market, currently valued at approximately USD 100 billion, is projected to exceed USD 200 billion within the next 3 to 4 years. This growth is driven by several key factors, even as the structural expansion of larger, cheaper storage capacities continues to reduce storage costs.

• Increased data generation Constant and rapid growth in data generation, driven by the increasing number of internet users and the expansion of data-driven industries, continues to drive demand for online storage, outpacing the cost reductions achieved through technological advancements.

• Online and digital adoption The broader adoption of online storage solutions and their seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure is steadily increasing. As more users embrace digital transformation, the demand for scalable and flexible solutions is outpacing the complexity of maintaining internal systems.

• Remote work acceleration The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated remote work trends, driving a surge in demand for thorough online storage solutions in both business environments and individuals' private lives. This shift has not only accelerated the already increasing year-on-year growth of online users but has also heightened the demand for solutions that support remote collaboration and data access.

• Hybrid storage popularity The rise in popularity of hybrid storage solutions has led to greater adoption of public cloud storage, private cloud storage, and various decentralized initiatives. Hybrid solutions blend technologies to effectively cater to customers of all sizes, allowing them to tailor their storage strategies based on specific needs, thus increasing focus on user-driven requirements.

DEVPN storage market adoption

DEVPN is uniquely positioned to take full advantage of the anticipated growth in the storage market:

• DEVPN provides a hybrid storage environment, focused on privacy and high quality.

• Our storage offerings are entirely driven at a privacy minded audience and market segment.

• Our storage target audience is first and foremost targeted through our Hybrid VPN.

• DEVPN Privacy Storage provides a factual technical superior service.

• DEVPN provides a viable decentralized ownership alternative to corporate storage providers.

• DEVPN is the first to market with user-oriented, all-round privacy and convenience solutions.

• DEVPN offers superior solutions to a user-base ranging from single-users to large organizations.

Powered by Artificial Intelligence

DEVPN is run by a highly technical-driven team that loves exploring new theories in technology, but we consistently first assess user adoption before implementing the actual value each component can add.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has meanwhile proven itself in many areas, including among corporate cloud providers as well as across various decentralized crypto utility projects. When applied correctly, AI is capable of producing absolutely stunning results, often surpassing tasks that are humanly impossible.

Ethically, DEVPN fully understands that some users may raise an eyebrow and hold divided opinions on the use of AI within a privacy-oriented environment. DEVPN specifically wants to emphasize that our ecosystem deploys AI only in areas where it explicitly enhances user privacy and convenience.

Artificial Intelligence does not have access to the actual data stored within our network. Think of it as thousands of human planners in a large logistics distribution center, who work tirelessly to figure out the best way to deliver packages across all available routes, reducing the number of drivers needed.

Just as AI is integral to our Hybrid VPN, it also plays a crucial role in our Privacy Storage solutions, enabling us to operate our hybrid storage models with far higher performance than other decentralized providers and a level of privacy and data security that surpasses corporate quality standards.

Hybrid privacy storage

DEVPN is pioneering the future of online storage in a decentralized ownership model that leverages all of the available high-quality service methods, delivering our users premium privacy and performance.

By leveraging a high-class hybrid online storage model with a broad array of hardware and advanced privacy features, DEVPN provides a robust storage environment that is free from single points of failure, and free from third-party interference, such as data brokerage and the influence of politics.

DEVPN's network design offers a comprehensive and resilient storage solution by integrating a diverse array of resources. Our network consists of investor-leased and owned hardware, strategically placed across multiple data centers and private facilities to ensure high availability and redundancy.

DEVPN aims to provide privacy storage in the high-quality segment and, therefore, explicitly excludes decentralized operators from home or phone devices in our hybrid privacy storage portfolio.

While these methods can offer ethical and technically sufficient alternatives in a budget-friendly fashion, we believe they do not provide enough advantages to warrant inclusion in our hybrid solution.

By incorporating decentralized storage units from private cloud providers, DEVPN is committed to selecting only third-party decentralized providers whose equipment and environments pass rigorous quality assessments and stress testing to ensure they meet our stringent quality requirements.