Recently, Renmin Cloud Network published an article stating that the data center security network of Renmin Cloud Network uses IPFS technology. The original text is as follows: " People's Cloud Network is a blockchain distributed storage data center network under the People's Data (National Big Data Disaster Recovery Center), a joint venture between People's Daily Online and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. People's Cloud Network aims to establish 500 smart city data centers (10 samples will be selected in the first batch) within 2-3 years, using the internationally advanced and mature IPFS technology to independently develop and connect to form People's Cloud Network . People's Cloud Network is a data center network independently developed on the basis of IPFS, a world-leading and mature revolutionary technology of file fragmentation encryption, content addressing, distributed storage, etc., with fully shared resources. It can fundamentally solve the pain points of the data storage industry in terms of security, reliability, speed, cost, management, etc., and provide safer, more reliable, faster, and low-cost (1/3 of the average industry cost) comprehensive cloud computing storage services, which can help government, enterprises, institutions and other service objects to significantly save data storage costs . " Of course, it is not only People's Cloud Network that has a keen eye, but also giants such as Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Amazon Cloud. The layout of the giants further reflects the excellence and irreplaceability of IPFS technology in the big data era (click below to read the giants' layout of IPFS). Why can IPFS win the favor of giants? The HTTP protocol we are using is actually more suitable for storing small files, because moving small files is relatively cheap, but as the data generated by humans continues to increase, people are entering a new era of data distribution: Hosting and distributing petabyte-scale datasets; Big data computing across organizations; High-definition on-demand or real-time media streaming at high volumes; Versioning and linking of large-scale datasets; Prevent accidental loss of important files, etc.
Simply put, the trend of mankind gradually entering the era of big data is irreversible. Data is an intangible asset and a precious asset. As awareness of privacy protection increases, people are more willing to pay for data storage . However, as more and more data is generated, the expansion speed of traditional big data centers will gradually lag behind the speed of data growth, which will cause "data overflow" to gradually become the norm. In addition, traditional big data centers also face problems such as hacker attacks , difficult backup, high costs, and easy downtime. In summary, facing this ever-expanding “trillion-dollar” data market, traditional data centers cannot fully accommodate and serve it well. Therefore, whether from the perspective of the development of the times or from the perspective of economic benefits, changes in data storage are imperative . The new demands in the era of big data and the challenges faced by traditional data centers are actually new opportunities for IPFS . IPFS (Inter Planetary File System), also known as the interstellar file system, is a peer-to-peer distributed file system. IPFS provides a high-throughput content-addressed block storage model with content-addressed hyperlinks and forms a generalized Merkle DAG data structure. We can use this data structure to build version file systems, blockchains, and even permanent websites. Simply put, IPFS and HTTP are both underlying protocols of the Internet. The biggest difference between the two is that IPFS is decentralized and has no single point of failure, while HTTP is "centralized" and centralized. The HTTP protocol is heavily dependent on the backbone network, which poses a serious security risk. All data is stored in one place. In order to achieve economies of scale, the computer room will be built in one place, which will be very dependent on one backbone node. Once the "single-point" center is destroyed or data is lost or falsified, the entire network will be paralyzed or receive wrong information, and the user's information security and privacy will be easily threatened. Since the IPFS network has no central point and is decentralized, it can effectively defend against attacks such as DDoS, XSS, CSRF , and so on, thereby solving the problems of data storage and communication security, allowing people to store their data more securely . IPFS uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology for data transmission and download. Each node can be used as a data cache. The more nodes there are, the faster the transmission speed is. In addition, the bandwidth usage cost can be saved by nearly 60%, thereby greatly saving cloud storage costs and achieving the effect of "reducing costs and increasing efficiency" . At the same time, the fault-tolerance mechanism in IPFS will ensure that your data is copied in sufficient quantities and stored in different regions. Even if the data in a certain area is completely destroyed due to a natural disaster, the data will be continuously available, thereby solving the reliability and disaster backup and recovery problems encountered by centralized data centers, thereby ensuring the security and permanence of data stored on IPFS . In general, IPFS provides a new distributed storage solution in a high-growth data storage industry that is in line with the development trend of the times, benefits more people, and is accessible to everyone. Its advanced nature has profoundly influenced the data storage industry, and the use of IPFS technology by giants is the best proof of this. Filecoin — the only incentive layer for IPFS Filecoin is a decentralized storage network based on IPFS. It is the only incentive layer on IPFS and a token issued based on blockchain technology.As the only incentive layer of the IPFS network, Filecoin and IPFS are largely a community of interests. Filecoin enjoys the vast resources and reputation of IPFS. IPFS has also attracted more customers with high demand for storage data because of Filecoin's high-quality data storage services. At the same time, Filecoin has also expanded the huge storage demand market in the blockchain industry (currently Ethereum, Polkadot, Ontology, etc. are preparing to bridge with Filecoin). In general, IPFS & Filecoin complement each other and jointly empower the new generation of Internet, laying a solid foundation for the new generation of Internet and human information storage. As a blockchain project, Filecoin has issued its own token, which we call FIL. 55% of it, or 1.1 billion, is mined by miners, and 15%, or 300 million FIL tokens, are reserved as miner reserves to incentivize different types of mining in the future. In other words, the portion that actually belongs to miners is still 70%, or 1.4 billion. After three years of careful development, the Filecoin mainnet was officially launched on October 15, 2020. The Filecoin network currently carries 2.3EiB of data, equivalent to 66 billion 1080P movies, can accommodate the capacity of 10,350 Wikipedias, and can store 1,575,500 years of continuous video calls, which is equivalent to 43 copies of the entire Internet archive . Frankly speaking, Filecoin is a blockchain project that is connected to physical objects such as mining machines, broadband, and computer rooms. Why do we emphasize "physical connection"? Because these physical objects are actually the basis of Filecoin's value. In other words, Filecoin is essentially a valuable project. Today, the valuable Filecoin network stores a huge amount of high-value data assets. The Filecoin network is empowered by these data assets. The value and valuation of the Filecoin network will be greatly improved. FIL, as the value token of the Filecoin network, is expected to become a real "digital gold". |
