How Web3 Cloud Storage Supports Scientific Research
A Major Problem With Modern Scientific Data Advancement
Storing and accessing large data sets with traditional cloud storage can easily cost thousands to hundreds of thousands per year due to costly egress fees. Data storage is quickly becoming a key piece of infrastructure for scientific advancement as researchers need a place to store increasingly large amounts of data.
However, expensive egress fees can limit research by quickly eating up budgets and funding. One recent example is NASA needing to store and access data from some of its missions, but running into problems when the egress fees of $30 million a year were not part of their initial budget. Egress fees became an unexpected issue preventing scientific advancement: the data is there, but it can’t be accessed due to the enormous egress fee.
If you can imagine the implications of one research project coming to a halt from data access fees, imagine how detrimental this issue becomes for scientific advancement if several projects across industries experience this issue. What could this mean for advancements in medicine, biology, climate, space, economics, AI, finance, and more?
How Web3 Cloud Storage Advances Scientific Research
A component of Web3 provides a new method to store data, including scientific data. Web3 cloud storage allows scientific research data to be stored in multiple data centers across the globe to enhance security and ease of access for researchers. You can see one of Seal’s recent case studies with UC Berkeley and their physics neutrino research data.
The benefits of Web3 cloud storage are built into Seal’s platform and infrastructure which runs on the Filecoin network, a blockchain-based technology. If you’re unfamiliar, you can read a simple explanation of Filecoin.
Some key benefits of our Web3 data storage for scientific research:
No single point of failure - data is stored in multiple locations, providing more redundancy and security; decentralization makes hacking attempts difficult
Immutability - records remain unchanged; storage is verified daily
Affordability - large petabytes of data can be stored inexpensively compared to traditional data storage
Privacy - data is split amongst nodes, making the data accessible only to the data owner
Store Your Scientific Research Data with Seal
Seal’s growing list of university and research institute partners includes the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, UC Berkeley, and University of Utah. Reach out to us to learn how you can store your scientific research data with Seal: https://www.sealstorage.io/voice
