Traditional data were stored in hardware devices like hard drives or various USB storage media. The limitations of physical space and complicated installation, connectivity and usage of this method were serious and companies wanting to stop caring about technical details and focusing on their specific tasks welcomed the idea of remote storage coming in the form of cloud storage, or The Cloud.
After a decade of great adoption and intensive use of the Cloud even by common users storing their files remotely for mobility and flexibility reasons, but predominantly by companies for better accessing, organising and processing their large amount of data, some serious issues came to disturb that bliss. Cloud storage started showing weaknesses: Security and privacy breachs along with multiple occasions of being unable to provide its services due to server downtime/system failure.
Blockchain technology showed us it could make important improvements in the storage field, with some noteworthy projects emerging like Filecoin, Arweave, Storj and Walrus. They could overcome the obstacles found in the cloud storage, therefore providing great security, privacy and data availability by relying in multiple nodes rather than in a centralized way such as the servers of a cloud storage company like Google Drive or Amazon AWS.
Walrus stands above the other 3 Blockchain storage solutions in terms of speed, fees and programmability through smart contracts
Let's take a closer look at the fees of Walrus storage to realize how cost effective it is.
Source: official Walrus Cost Calculator
Breaking down the prices reveals that Walrus not only is able to cheaply sustain large files on a enterprise scale but also extremely affordable for the averge PC or mobile user to store their files securely on Blockchain, either temporarily or long term (from one or a couple of months to years).
This kind of costs make people wonder why they're still using cloud services and haven't already migrated to Walrus blockchain storage solutions, taking into account the high level of security and privacy they could benefit in addition to low fees.