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INTRODUCTION

Cloud computing transforms the way in which current enterprises IT infrastructure is constituted and managed through consumable services such as infrastructure, platform, and applications. It is a type of computing that provides simple, on demand access to pools of highly elastic computing resources. These resources are provided as a service over a network, often the Internet. Cloud enables the consumers of the technology to think of computing as effectively limitless, of minimal cost, and reliable, as well as not to be concerned about how it is constructed, how it works, who operates it, or where it is located. It involves the subscriber and the provider. The service provider can be a company’s internal IT group, a trusted third party or a combination of both. The subscriber is anyone who uses the services. By making data available in the cloud, it can be more easily and ubiquitously accessed, often at much lower cost, increasing its value by enabling opportunities for enhanced collaboration, integration, and analysis on a shared common platform.

TYPES OF CLOUD

There are three common types of clouds available namely, Private, Public and Hybrid cloud which is represented in Fig. 2 included below. A private cloud is based upon a pool of shared resources, whose access is limited within organizational boundaries. The resources are accessed over a private and secured intranet and are all owned and controlled by the company’s IT organization. A public cloud is a domain where the public Internet is used to obtain cloud services. The resources that make up those services are owned by the respective cloud service providers. Some examples include Salesforce.com, Google App Engine and Google search, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web services such as EC2. A Hybrid cloud is a combination of private and public clouds, where services from each domain are consumed in an integrated fashion and include an extended relationship with the selected external service providers.


Fig. 2 Three types of Cloud computing model

Cloud computing offers the following advantages to the enterprises:
• Lower costs: All resources, including expensive networking equipment, servers, IT personnel, etc. are shared, resulting in reduced costs, especially for small to mid-sized applications.
• Shifting Capital Expenses to Operational Expenses: Cloud computing enables companies to shift money from capital expenses to operating expenses, which ultimately allows the enterprise to focus their money and resources on innovation.
• Scalability: Many cloud services can smoothly and efficiently scale to handle the growing nature of the business with a more cost-effective pay-as-you-go model. This is also known as elasticity.
• Simplified maintenance: Patches and upgrades are rapidly deployed across the shared infrastructure, as well as the backups.
• Diverse platform support: Many cloud computing services offer built-in support for a rich collection of client platforms including browsers, mobile, and more. This diverse platform support enables applications to reach a broader category of users.

CLOUD STORAGE

Rapid data growth and the need to keep it safer and longer will require organizations to integrate how they manage and use their data, from creation to end of life. Now there is an opportunity to store all our data in the internet. Those off-site storages are provided and maintained by the third parties through the Internet which is represented in Fig. 3. Cloud storage offers a large pool of storage which is available for use, with three significant attributes: access via Web services APIs on a non-persistent network connection, immediate availability of very large quantities of storage, and pay for what you use. It supports rapid scalability.

Evolution of Cloud Storage

Cloud storage is an offering of cloud computing. Fig. 4 shows the evolution of Cloud Storage based on traditional network storage and hosted storage. Benefit of cloud storage is the access of your data from anywhere. Cloud storage providers provide storage varying from small amount of data to even the entire warehouse of an organization.


Fig. 3Simple cloud storage model

Benefits of Cloud storage:

• No startup capital.
• No need for technical expert to maintain the storage.
• Allows others to access data with collaborative working style instead of individual work.


Fig. 4Evolution of Cloud Storage

Let me introduce you to an Open Source Cloud storage platform, IAGON

IAGON

Unlike several other Open Source platform, IAGON is an Open Source platform for harnessing the storage capacities and processing power of multiple computers over a decentralized Blockchain grid. IAGON utilizes cloud computing and storage to store big data files and repositories, as well as smaller scales of files, and to carry out complex computational processes, such as those needed for artificial intelligence and machine learning operations, within a fully secure and encrypted platform that integrates blockchain, cryptographic and AI technologies in a user-friendly way.

IAGON TOKEN

IAGON token-based economy is based on computer, server and data center owners who join the storage and processing power grids. In return for sharing the capabilities of their machine, they will be granted IAGON tokens that can be traded back to fiat money, while any party who wishes to utilize their capabilities will purchase IAGON tokens to distribute them to the parties that provide their services to the grid. The storage mechanism is based on Blockchain encryption and delivery of encrypted file fragments to many storage facilities. Contributors to the grid can publish their skills and free capacity and offer their service on the basis of their experience, available resources and storage space and bidding on price. Advanced machine learning and AI algorithms will assist in recommending prices to parties involved in this venture and classifying them according to their price levels and assuring continuity of services and access to all files.

AIM OF THE IAGON PLATFORM

IAGON’s major aim is to revolutionize the cloud and web services market by offering a decentralized grid of storage and processing. By joining the unused storage capacity in servers and personal computers and their processing power, we can create a super-computer and super data center that can compete with any of the current cloud computing moguls. IAGON aims at providing companies and individuals storage and processing services at a fraction of the market prices and at a better security level by connecting data centers, business computers and personal users and utilizing their free storage capacities and their CPU and GPU processors during idle times. Doing so, IAGON overcomes the entry barriers imposed by the high level of investments required to compete in this market.

IAGON’S AI-BASED COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSES

Just like a human brain, AI and machine learning algorithms require inputs of data to deduce an inference. The Blockchain technology provides a unique and fully secure solution towards processing, storing and distributing data and maintaining their consistency and integrity that can be used for use cases like decentralized processing. The Blockchain is simply blocks of data hashed together and chained using previous hashes and its current block to maintain consistency across the chain.

IAGON was built not only to serve the decentralized network but also work with current data storage facilities like SQL and NoSQL databases. The approach taken with IAGON is unique to the point that IAGON utilizes is machine learning algorithm to distribute load across a decentralized network for processing and then encrypts/decrypts data which flows through its system. There are many use cases that IAGON can carter for. IAGON can provide secure storage over centralized, clustered or decentralized networks, distribute data processing load across its network of data miners for data analytics and also provide a secure solution for creating smart contracts over the Blockchain, or serve to identify honest and attacking nodes within a system.

IAGON’S MULTIPLE BLOCKCHAIN SUPPORT

IAGON aim at providing its users and miners complete flexibility and freedom of choice in providing and consuming decentralized cloud services. Hence, IAGON will provide a multiple Blockchain solution by running its cloud storage and processing operations both on the Ethereum Blockchain and on Tangle.

CASE STUDY

IAGON intends to bring decentralization into mainstream businesses and consumer markets. In order to achieve this, IAGON was designed and built to integrate seamlessly into existing IT infrastructure without the need for expensive resources to deploy.


Figure 5: IAGON in a typical server-database architecture and frontend-backend architecture

IAGON can work with both SQL and NoSQL database structures that are commonly used today without the need for expensive migration processes or specialized resources to implement and deploy. IAGON provides a security layer because it identifies specific digital fingerprints associated with the request going through the server to identify if a request is an honest node.

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It serves as a layer to allow data to be securely stored within both private and public blockchains. Using machine learning algorithms and encryption/decryption protocols, IAGON is able to provide a secure method in storing data across platforms.

IAGON can be configured to serve not only as a secure platform to integrate with existing blockchains but also utilize its data mining feature to process data. IAGON scales by distributing processing load across a decentralized network and securely stores data the across different decentralized platforms. This is done through IAGON machine learning algorithm that works to distribute the data based on the task it is required to undertake. IAGON uses both supervised and unsupervised machine learning method known as semi-supervised learning to both process and distribute data across decentralized networks.

ARCHITECTURE

Fig. 7:An Overview of IAGON’s Architecture

The architecture of IAGON ’s Open Source platform can be broken down into three unique sections. The sections are the machine learning algorithm, the Blockchain and miners, and the encryption/decryption protocol. When a request is sent to IAGON, the machine learning algorithm sends blocks of data over to the miners to process and find for matching signatures. These blocks of data are then sent back to be validated over the blockchain along with an output which the machine learning algorithm will use to identify a node. It will be impossible to identify a node without processing the data in multiple blocks and to identify a correlation thus this provides a level of anonymity and privacy to the users utilizing IAGON’s platform.

Blocks are distributed evenly to miners by utilizing proof of variance and does not store any of the data within their local systems. This allows data to be process anonymously without being able to identify any single node individually except through the machine learning algorithm. In addition, Miners are incentive to process the data quickly to earn rewards, as such it would not be ideal for miners to actually spend time, energy and money to try to store or process the data. The Blockchain allows data to be broken down into blocks and sent across nodes. The encryption and decryption protocol allow for secure storage of data within any external or internal platforms. This provides a unique approach towards decentralization as any external platform with an API can simply be integrated to IAGON’s platform to utilize its services. What makes IAGON unique is the fact that IAGON is able to integrate seamlessly with current database architecture including SQL, NoSQL, Big data databases, private Blockchain, Hyperledger, or any public Blockchain or decentralized network.

DATA MINING

IAGON takes a very different approach towards data mining. IAGON does this by utilizing a private Blockchain with public network protocols over API networks. A miner does not need to store any of the data in order to mine, the miner’s sole duty is to honestly process the data and send the output back to IAGON’s machine learning algorithm for analysis.


[Fig. 8:] (https://postimg.cc/image/a1h6tl4p3/)Mining data flow on IAGON’s platform.

IAGON uses the decentralized computing network to distribute load and increase speed for mundane data processing tasks. Block tasks are distributed to miners using the proof of variance method. Miners will need to match the data signature from the data input and find its corresponding data object in the block and return the data output. Miners does not have to store any of the data it processes, once the data has been validated to belong to the specific block, the miner is considered to have mined the block.

Blocks are generated at a bounded rate and there is no communication between miner’s clients. The server connecting the miners to IAGON’s platform uses a multithreaded server to distribute and receive results. Blocks are sent over HTTP-based protocols so that clients inside firewalls can connect to it. The mining client architecture allows it to run as a background process or a GUI application. Proof of variance allows IAGON to identify the typical speed at which miners take to process a block.

BLOCKCHAIN

Fig. 9:IAGON’s Blockchain Protocol

IAGON leverages the Blockchain technology to maintain honesty of nodes across IAGON distributed data mining algorithm. The Blockchain uses SHA256 algorithm of previous blocks to maintain a chain link to its historical state (in this case data). This allow IAGON to incentivize miners on its platform to process data honestly and to guard against deliberate manipulation of the data output. Using the Blockchain, IAGON ’s machine learning algorithm can quickly identify if a data output mined from a block is actually a valid part of the block. This is achieved within the framework of a simple Blockchain similar to that used by Bitcoin by hashing the inputs with the hash of the previous block.

PURCHASING TOKENS VIA FIAT MONEY TRANSFERS

Purchases can be made via all ETH, Bank Transfer or debit/card. Please follow the detailed instructions for Token Sale fiat money transfers on our website.

PUBLIC REVIEW OF THE TOKEN CONTRACT

The Token Contract and associated audits will be published at a later date on Etherscan. We invite all potential participants to review them for features and functionality.

CONCLUSION

The [IAGON Blockchain presents a unique approach towards sharing data across a decentralized network. Unlike every other platforms data is stored, processed and validated by a network of nodes within an internal facility where the processing is outsourced to a decentralized network of nodes. This allows consistency to be maintained throughout the entire data structure.

THE IAGON TEAM

IAGON’s executive team is led by Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal, a highly experienced professional in the field of cryptocurrency investments and financial operations. IAGON’s team members are:

Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal
Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal is IAGON’s CEO and founder, aiming to revolutionize the world’s centralized cloud industry by offering a decentralized cloud services platform. In the past, Navjit was a medical entrepreneur in the field of dentistry, successfully leading Norway’s Mjøsa Tannklinikk’s operations and doubling its revenues in one year.

Dr. Elad Harison
Chief Architect and Chief Operations Officer.
Dr. Elad Harison in an expert on Data Mining and Machine Learning, Economist and Industrial Engineer, who is in charge of IAGON’s architecture planning and operations. He is the former Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at Shenkar College and an accomplished economic advisor and analyst in the private sector in Israel and in the EU, where he led business feasibility studies, market research and statistical analysis and IT architecture changes for the European Commission, several European governments, KLM-Air France and an Israeli Bank, among others.

Dr. Claudio Lima
Chief technology officer.
Dr. Claudio Lima is a seasoned executive, global CTO, VP of innovation and thought leader in advanced energy and telecom/IT working with emerging technologies, new businesses and digital transformation. At IAGON he identifies new areas of technology, landscape, developments and opportunities and creates plans to implement them for IAGON and its clients.

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