Decentralized storage for businesses is an innovative use case of blockchain technology. Learn how integrating Filecoin with your existing enterprise SaaS solutions can help democratize and optimize data storage for your business.
The Problem with Enterprise Cloud Storage Providers
Have you ever looked at the hosting regions made available by your cloud service provider? If you have, you will notice how limited they likely are.
Consider the following examples.
- The only options listed in the Google Workspace documentation are United States, Europe or No preference.
- AWS regions are also limited.
This leads to several challenges, including the following.
- It restricts access to computing and storage resources to users located in many parts of the world.
- It keeps large cloud service providers able to dictate storage prices.
How IPFS / Filecoin Provides Decentralized Storage for Businesses
Filecoin makes storage efficient and locally accessible to the masses.
The process for doing this is as follows.
- A client who wants to store data views available storage providers and their market prices.
- Storage providers compete to win the storage contract.
- The client selects winning storage providers.
- The deal is made. The client then sends the data, and the provider stores it.
- To earn Filecoin, storage providers must prove they are storing the data properly. This enhances security and trust.
Adoption of Decentralized Storage for Businesses through Enterprise CRM Integration
Bringing Filecoin’s decentralized file storage capabilities to enterprise SaaS tools provides businesses with flexibility and freedom.
Decentralized storage is an innovative use case for customer relationship management (CRM) blockchain integration.
The option to upload files to Salesforce, the world’s number 1 ranked CRM, using Filecoin, would empower businesses with a flexible, censorship resistant, way to upload files to
- Composing accounts
- Independent contacts
- Opportunities
