Web3 Cloud Storage

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Seal Storage Technology

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Sal Malik, Sales Engineer

Seal Storage Technology

Decentralized Cloud Storage Use Cases

Seal Storage Technology

• Seal is a Web3 cloud storage company that provides sustainable, immutable, and affordable data storage to leading universities, research institutions, enterprises, and Web3 organizations.
• Decades of experience from traditional enterprise storage companies including Seagate and Oracle

• Data centers powered by renewable energy in the US and Canada with enterprise-grade infrastructure and data policies
• Several multi-PB proof of concept projects already in progress including UC Berkeley and Stanford/USC’s Starling Lab

Storage is evolving

1956 – The first hard drive

1987 – First NFS implementation

1983 – First SMB implementation

1988 – Fiber Channel standardized

2000 – iSCSI standardized

2006 – AWS S3 launch

2008 – Google launches GCP

2010 – Microsoft launches Azure

2009 - First bitcoin client app

2014 – Inception of Filecoin

Decentralized Storage

Oct 2020 - Filecoin

mainnet goes live

Web3 - The dawn of decentralized Internet

• DLT - Distributed Ledger Technology: the underlying technology of Web3
• What is a ledger?
• A book containing accounts to which debits and credits are posted from books of original entry
• A ledger requires a reconciliation process to verify authenticity
• Distribution is used to obtain consensus of each added entry, replaces reconciliation process
• Automation of this process can be accomplished via BLOCKCHAIN
• Result: a computer network built on consensus

Data Storage Verification

Storage Providers must submit proofs that they are continuing to store unique copies of client data in order to receive payment and rewards

Proof of Replication (PoRep)

Based on Sealing, a sequential operation to generate encoding of the data for each miner, a unique replica.

Proof of Spacetime (PoSt)

Randomly selected miners have random sectors challenged, for which data is read for verifications and compressed into a PoSt proof

Web3 Journey with Seal Storage

PUT

MANAGE

SEND

GET

Agree to Dataset

Duration of Storage

No. of copies

Send Data

Cryptographic Hash

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Verification

Block Reward

Slashing

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Retrieval

Rich API interface

No Egress charges

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Sponsored Research Opportunity:

Decentralized Data Storage for Research Universities and Institutions

Seal collaborates with innovators that have a deep connection with their data, where its integrity and safekeeping are essential.

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To evaluate our new decentralized data storage platform, Seal sponsors projects for the decentralized storage of large data sets (~petabytes).

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• Interested organizations determine the data sets and scope, while the Seal development team funds and leads the scope
• Two years of sponsored storage is included to prove out the value propositions of decentralized data storage

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Announcing New University Partner

University of Utah Collaboration

1 PiB CEDMAV Dataset

Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization (CEDMAV)

Immutability | Data integrity continually verified | Blockchain-based chain of custody

Seal Storage Technology is currently underway with an active project for University of Utah

The consensus mechanisms of the network enable three attractive attributes for data: immutability, verifiability, chain of custody.

Cryptographic hashes of the data sets are stored on-chain while the data is stored off-chain in enterprise-grade data centers powered by renewable energy.

Case Study:

(press release)

Gabriel D Orebi Gann, PhD

UC Berkeley Professor

Underground Physics Group Lead

UC Berkeley’s

Groundbreaking

Neutrino Physics Research

Benefits of Seal Storage for UC Berkeley:

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Immutability

Neutrino rare event search – every file is valuable

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Geographic Decentralization

Berkeley has global collaborators

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Verifiability

Source of truth - knowing research data is not corrupted

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Affordability

Allows research data to grow without constraints

Centralized vs. Decentralized Cloud Storage

Existing centralized cloud storage platforms extract the majority of revenue from the customer’s access to the data, aka egress fees.

Filecoin, on the other hand, places value in the data set itself and its continual storage.

Seal has invested millions of dollars to create a user-friendly onramp to the Filecoin Network where the initial storage and continual verification produce block rewards that fund our data centers and enable Seal to provide resources for sponsored projects.

Use Case: Long Term Archival Data Storage

Data

• Data that needs to be accessed infrequently yet requires instant access
• Backup storage for multi-year to indefinite storage
• Replace resource-intensive tape storage systems

Benefits

• No egress charges
• No I/O operation charges for accessing the data
• Data stored in immutable WORM (Write Once, Read Many) format
• Data integrity is verified daily through the consensus mechanism

Sponsored Project Benefits to Collaborators

Seal provides sponsored petabyte-scale storage for two years to prove out the value propositions of our decentralized platform.

The decentralized storage ecosystem is young and innovators are integral to the development of various data use cases. Interested Organizations determine the scope based on their unique use case and Seal would fund and lead the development as part of the sponsored project.

The three data attributes [immutability, verifiability, chain of custody] integrate with a trustless network where data authenticity is paramount and global distribution is required. All data centers, hardware and management are enterprise-grade and our standard data storage plan is six full copies across at least six cities, three countries and two continents.

DEVELOPMENT

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

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The next generation of platforms will be built on the decentralized web. Unlocking the benefits of the next economy: True ownership, security, and verifiability of data.

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Interested in learning more?

Contact Sal Malik

Sales Engineer

sal.malik@sealstorage.io