There are so many alternatives. I think edge storage is where things are headed.
@OpenStorageNet is a game changer and is viable today.
@IPFS might be the future.
Want to know more about the #OpenStorageNetwork? #NCSA's Imagination Café, booth #2007 will host our meetup with J.D. Maloney at 2:00–3:00 p.m. to explore creating a distributed storage system for sharing research data sets.
More info at: ncsa.illinois.edu/SC19/#tech…
Use case panel: Chris Lenhardt on water resource analysis (RENCI), Boris Capitanu on extracted features data from books (HTRC), Shachi Mittal on image processing for cancer research (UIUC) and Chris Hill on studying the ocean with computers (MIT). #OpenStorageNetwork#NSFfunded