Akash Network DeCloud Integration With Skynet Labs Decentralized Storage Network

Akash Network, open-source and decentralized cloud (DeCloud) also known as Airbnb for cloud computing, announced an integration with Skynet Labs, the team behind Sia, a decentralized storage network.

By bringing together compute and storage layers, the two companies are enabling developers to host their applications on a fully decentralized cloud.

DeCloud is differentiated by its speed of deployment, flexibility, lower cost, and permissionless access. Now with Skynet as a technology partner, Akash’s solution can integrate storage and compute resources. The firm will be able to leverage Skynet’s decentralized storage to backup and restore server instances, host larger volumes of data, and distribute files across multiple points of presence, ultimately improving the user experience. With this integration, the 2 firms can provide a full-stack solution that will handle backup, restore, and migration for databases running on the DeCloud.

“The full-stack solution for the decentralized web is now a reality, with Skynet as the front-end with storage, and Akash as the back-end API and database host,” said Greg Osuri, CEO, Akash Network. “Each step of this partnership has been supported and developed by the community and began with a challenge on Twitter to combine Akash, Skynet, and Handshake into a single open-source package. We plan to support these efforts long-term through community-targeted funding.“

The materialization of dWeb is a major shift away from computing resources being owned and operated by the three large centralized cloud software giants. Technology is now poised to shift away from AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, to a decentralized network of cloud providers operating open-source software platforms and creating healthy market competition in an open marketplace with more providers and lower costs.

“The world of decentralized computing has seen major advancements in the past ten years. The things we are able to accomplish today put decentralized infrastructure ahead of traditional architectures by achieving similar performance at lower cost and higher reliability,” said David Vorick, CEO, Skynet. “The real advantage, however, is the political stability – the terms of service and available APIs of centralized services change every day, but decentralization comes with guarantees. The entrepreneurs of tomorrow will build on decentralized tech, because it gives them so much more control over the future of their business.“

About Akash Network
Its decentralized and open-source cloud, accelerates deployment, scale, efficiency and price performance for industries like blockchain and ML/AI. Known as the ‘Airbnb for Cloud Compute’,  the company provides a fast and low-cost application deployment solution. Developers leveraging the firm can access cloud computing at up to 3x less than the cost of centralized cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Utilizing containerization and open-source technology, the company leverages 85% of underutilized cloud capacity in 8.4 million global data centers, enabling anyone to buy and sell cloud computing.

About Skynet Labs
It builds software infrastructure for the decentralized Internet. This includes Sia, the decentralized cloud storage platform and Skynet, a content hosting and application development platform. The company defines infrastructure as scalable, trustless, secure, and most importantly, fully decentralized.