As you know, here at Internxt we are currently developing X Cloud, which strives to become a safer cloud storage service than that provided by Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Amazon S3, NextCloud, Box, Tresorit, Sync etc. How we want to accomplish that is not only by guaranteeing the safest end-to-end encryption standards, nor simply by building an incredibly solid infrastructure. We are also making use of decentralization, to ensure that it’s significantly harder for third parties to gain access to your data.

In Q3 this year we’ll be releasing X Cloud Beta, which we expect to be used by the decentralized / blockchain / crypto communities. This market segment is growing incredibly fast, thus we expect a major adoption only from this very segment. Once X Cloud Beta is out, we will keep running major infrastructural improvements and will get different hacking agencies to continuously help us audit and monitor our infrastructure to find any potential vulnerabilities. Our stable version is expected to be released in Q4 this year. We expect major corporations and startups to start using X Cloud as soon as the stable release is out. This adoption should grow as we manage to develop a more solid product, and we even foresee some Governments jumping in and making use of X Cloud to store their information. We also observe that individuals are becoming more aware of what happens with their data, and are paying more attention to protecting their information from Hackers or it being misused by Governments or Corporations. X Cloud will strive to be a service as beautiful, cheap and as simple to use as those the mainstream market is used to utilize, yet significantly more secure. We, therefore, not only see Corporations or extremely privacy-minded individuals making use of our service. We also expect the mainstream B2C market to gain interest in our superior cloud service, as society becomes increasingly aware of what happens with their data.

X Cloud is much more than a more secure, superior, cloud storage service. X Cloud is excitement, ambition. X Cloud is being part of something unique.

But, how does X Cloud differ from services like that of Storj and Sia?

We believe that these two companies have accomplished outstanding milestones. For the last few years, they’ve been building a great decentralized cloud storage infrastructure. As a matter of fact, X Cloud’s original architecture (as released in our Alpha version) was based on that of Storj. We started our journey from the point at which decentralized cloud architecture was when we came to the world. But, why do we need X Cloud, when we already have services like those of Storj or Sia, which also strive to replace centralized cloud storage services? These two companies have been around for a while already, and although they have been successful in targetting developers in the decentralized / blockchain / crypto communities, they have failed to reach out any market segments other than that one. And that’s what X Cloud is here for. Although we are working on making our architecture as solid as possible, X Cloud doesn’t necessarily strive to differentiate from Storj or Sia from an architectural point of view. We believe that decentralized cloud storage as an infrastructure is now ready to overtake centralized cloud storage infrastructures. That’s why we are mainly focusing on providing customers a phenomenal user experience, empowering them and making sure that the right message reaches to the right people.

And this is what X Cloud is here for.