Blockade Technologies Launches Blockchain-Based Cloud Storage

We just discovered ago a recent company named Blockade Technologies that plays in the emerging blockchain-based storage, here offered as a cloud service.

The firm was founded in 2016 by Ryan Shaw, CEO, and Kyle Suhan, CTO, and is based in Boca Raton, FL, with an office in Charlotte, NC.

 It has launched its service in November 2016 and aims to offer a super secure cloud storage based on blockchain technology and AES-256 encryption.

The service is sold via three subscriptions models:

• Professional: up to 5 users, 1TB per user at $9.95/month/user
• Business: from 6 to 100 users, unlimited capacity at $12.95$/month/user, and
• Enterprise: for more than 300 users, still unlimited capacity at $24.95/month./user.

Hum, there is a gap in the offering between 100 and 300 users, probably just a miss…

All end to end communications are fully secured thanks to the encryption method used with a different generated key defined for every transaction. The database that store all information is of course also fully encrypted .

This decentralized storage philosophy reminds me AetherStore, Storj, Infinit (now Docker), AeroFS, Wuala (shut down by Seagate in 2015), other P2P approaches and also my own old project KerStor to name a few.

It confirms that this segment has real potential and represents one among a few others interesting storage initiatives for the coming year.