Adobe chose a revolutionary cloud storage system for its popular video editor — and it could come to a computer near you
Adobe Premiere Pro customers, including artists and video editors, are supported by Storj’s decentralized storage technology.
One of its key selling points is that the company’s storage network generates up to 83% less carbon per TB used than hyperscalers like AWS and Azure, Storj claims. This is due to the nature of the decentralized approach, which makes better use of underutilized capacity.
Storj also claims its network reduces cloud costs by up to 90%, while also demonstrating speeds roughly two to three times faster than its hyperscaler rivals. Now, video editors and artists using Premiere Pro can leverage the decentralized network while retrieving files from the cloud on their devices.
The future of cloud storage?
The company has grown significantly over the past year, announcing 226% year-on-year growth, while benefiting from key improvements in the underlying technology.
For example, research published with the University of Edinburgh shows a two to four times better transfer performance since last year. It found that the retrieval of large quantum physics datasets from Storj’s decentralized network reached 800 Mbps.
The company claims this is a justification for its reliance on parallelism, which is built into the Storj network’s way of distributing data across thousands of points around the world. This network – with short distances between storage points – helps achieve fast transfer speeds and eliminates the delay that occurs when data moves across the Atlantic Ocean.
Decentralized cloud storage was also identified as a major disruptor by Forresterwith a report predicting it will disrupt the status quo of centralized storage as computing moves more to the edge.
Adobe’s integration of Storj into its Premiere Pro software underlines the company’s success in recent years, as Adobe is one of the most influential software companies in the creative industries. It comes after a number of new Storj partnerships in recent months, including with the likes of Toysmith, Acronis and Kubecost.