The business of storing enterprise data has gone through several technological revolutions over the last two decades. After on-prem storage came cloud storage (which enterprises initially resisted) and now, thanks to Filecoin and its competitors, comes blockchain-driven storage. The big question however (as with any blockchain discussion) has to do with the enterprise use cases to which Filecoin's "commercial" offering of an InterPlanetary File System-based (IPFS) solution is suited. At World Economic Forum 2023, Blockchain Journal's editor-in-chief David Berlind interviewed Protocol Labs' Director of Growth Stefaan Vervaet to learn not only about Filecoin's current view on that question but the long-term outlook as well. Protocol Labs is the research arm of the coalition that's responsible for Filecoin's technology and adoption.

To watch the video version of this podcast or read its full-text transcript, go to:

https://blockchainjournal.com/interview/filecoin-looks-move-upstack-just-archival-enterprise-data-database-functionality/

The video can also be watched on Blockchain Journal's YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMOhGAfFck