IAGON; THE GREATEST DECENTRALISED CLOUD SERVICE

When i first heard about the cloud a few years ago, i was like how is information stored in the sky, are there skyscrappers that go up into the sky with databases in them. I was genuinely puzzled
But as time went by i discovered that cloud storage is a model of data storage where the digital data is stored in logical pools, the physical storage spans multiple servers (and often locations), and the physical environment is typically owned and managed by a hosting company.
I really don't like cloud service. I don't want somebody else storing my stuff that can be traced back to me. I think cloud storage is like giving all your stuff to stranger to hold on to. Go to a stranger and tell them to hold on to your files while your not working see if he doesn't get curious about what he is holding.

IS IT SECURE

There are a number of security issues and concerns associated with cloud storing.

1. Security issues faced by cloud providers
2. Security issues faced by their customers

Cloud providers are organizations providing software platform or infrastructure as a service via the cloud.
In most cases, the provider must ensure that infrastructure is secure, and that their clients' data and applications are protected, while the customers must ensure that the provider has taken the proper security measure to protect their information.
The extensive use of virtualization in implementing cloud infrastructure brings unique security concerns for customers of a public cloud service. Virtualization alters the relationship between the operating system and underlying hardware.
The hardware could include computing, storage and networking.
The additional layer of virtualization itself must be properly configured, managed and secured.
The specific concern is the potential to compromise virtualization software (hypervisor). This concern is largely theoretical, but they do exist.
The virtualization layer is managed by a central management console. The central management console has to be rightly guarded. For example; a breach in the virtualization software can cause the whole data center to go down or be reconfigured to an attacker's liking.

IAGON'S MISSION

We’re all living in the age of the surveillance states and governments are allocating themselves more and more power to check out what their citizens are doing online.

Ever since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the practices of the NSA, many cloud storage companies have upped and moved their operations from American shores. Since no security measures taken by any company can match the power of a warrant

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Cloud data services gulps millions yearly and it keeps rising over the years with the big names like Google Cloud and Microsoft ruling the industry. Although they might not be offering completely safe and dependable services, but due to their status, they can sell at high prices conveniently.
New data cloud service providers might find it difficult trying to get a space. They will commit capital to set up the space and this offers leverage. Excitingly enough though, the need for the yearnings for data saving and computational analysis services is rising especially with the advent of AI apps in diverse industries. IAGON is designed as one of the blockchain-based data provider to fill this space.

• IAGON is revolutionizing the cloud and web services market by offering a decentralised cloud storage facility based on the blockchain. Their primary goal is to ensure that anyone anywhere, can afford cloud services, and break the control of the bigger companies. They will achieve this by harnessing the power of the collective i.e. anyone, anywhere with resources to spare can become a part of the network, where their personal computers and and unused storage capacities in servers are used to form a super-computer. So basically, the platform aims to provide to both the individual and company alike storage and processing services at a fraction of the market prices with a high level of security integrating data centres, business and personal computer resources and utilizing their free storage capacities and CPU/GPU processors during idle times.
  IAGON also intends to secure sensitive data such as banking information, financial information, insurance or even private information such as photograhs etc. We have seen many celebrities loose the privacy of some of their private photos in the past and IAGON wants to offer a solution to all of this and protect sensitive data.
  By coupling together the blockchain into the needs of the cloud, they can actually solve one of the problems of providing full security for either personal or business data, whether you are a small medium enterprise or a private person or even a corporate body. This is just one of the aspects of IAGON

• There is not much growing demands for big data storage or big data repositories, but there are growing demands for processing power to support artificial intelligence tasks and also more conventional tasks like processing this huge database. The recent development in Artifcial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data technologies and the dramatic increase
  in adoption of these technologies signify an ongoing and exponentially growing demand to both storage capacity and for computational processing power.
  

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IAGON thought about a second grade in which they can couple what is called ''miners'', or rather users that provide either the storage or the processing power of their computers or even both of them, that can be utilized fully securely and anonymously, and serve variety of companies which need this kind of power, of course rewarding the users or data centers that contribute to the grid with IAGON tokens, and parties that are interested in making use of this cheaper and more secure alternative, can do so by purchasing IAGON tokens, and passing them on to those that provide their services to the grid.
So basically, IAGON unites data centers, owners of servers, owners of personal computers into a sort of grid, like a super computer for two purposes;

1. To provide the processing power
2. To provide the storage space.
   For example, if you have your disk with extra gigabytes, you can make money by renting them out, without risking information on the rest of your disk.
   

HOW IS IAGON GOING TO MAKE SURE NOTHING HAPPENS TO THAT DATA

Shared Tech
Though cloud data is not shared, the facilities it is housed in are. Though with the right security measures in place this shouldn’t be prove a problem, there is a chance that having a malicious file uploaded to the same server your data is on could affect you, too. It is rare, but it has been known to happen.
Basically, IAGON is solving this issue by using a secure lake technology that distinguishes your machine from the processing by creating a virtual machine on that which will enable the complete distinguishing of the data and the content.

How does the process happen;

• They first take the user's file that is to be uploaded, they then encrypt it with a military grade encryption . This completely modifies the structure of the data and the content because it is encrypted, they then break it down into many small fragments. So if there were to be any virus or any risk of malicious software within the file that the user is trying to upload or distribute, it's going to disappear because the technology ensures that even when information systems are breached in anyway,the data and files that they use cannot be accessed, deleted or modified anyway.
  

SOME OF IAGONS'S MINDBLOWING FEATURES

MULTI-CHAIN SUPPORT

IAGON is not just dealing with blockchain, they are dealing with Tangle as well. I believe they want to create a platform that can serve multiple standards. IAGON will provide 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, running its cloud storage and processing operations both on the Ethereum Blockchain and on Tangle. Users and miners can choose either Ethereum or Tangle to fully securely store their files, to process computational tasks, to pay and to receive IAGON tokens for cloud services , and then primarily to benefit from huge advantages in gaining access to the market’s prominent and state-of-the-art technologies. The application of the Tangle technology assists in resolving some of the issues associated with the implementation of the blockchain technology for a large scale of operations, including the difficulties to scale the blockchain, to achieve consensus on the validity of blocks when the new blocks continuously arrive. By applying the Tangle technology, IAGON can offer an alternative solution for organizations with Big Data repositories that can support large scales of processing and storage management tasks

SECURE LAKE TECHNOLOGIES

Unique and outstanding feature based on blockchain’s SHA256 algorithm
What distinguishes IAGON from another fellow-projects? Much! But none of them has unique Secure Lake technology! Like i said earlier on, it is a top notch security feature, a new step in the technology of encrypting data. It slices data files preventing intruders to gain access to user's data. This i will say gives the project a great advantage
In June 2016, the decentralization organization The Dao was hacked, resulting in the theft of more than 50 million U.S. dollars of Ethereum, and many more. Its a huge step forward that IAGON gives a great concern to security
In regular lake technologies as we have them today, once a hacker has access to the database, (s)he can do whatever he/she likes. But IAGON’s Secure Lake Technology uses a “freezing” method in encrypting, slicing and distributing the data lake files to prevent access. Through this method, files can be encrypted to prevent just about anyone from accessing files in the database. The only person who can modify, delete or access the data is the person who uploaded it and has the private key. Alterations ranging from change, like associations are impossible. The secure lake technology ensures for no modifications or whatsoever.
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SMART COMPUTING GRID PLATFORM AND AI-TRACKER TECHNOLOGY

IAGON’s Smart Computing Grid is equivalent to any other power grid (such as solar production of electricity)
• It connects multiple producers to customers
• Smart Computing Grid fulfls the demand for the necessary resource
• It transfers unused resources to customers in need (CPU and GPU processing power and storage space), and
• It benefts the miners providing processing power and storage space to the grid without requiring efforts when their servers and computers are not used by them.

The Smart Computing Grid is based on advanced Artifcial Intelligence components that include more than 100 Machine Learning algorithms , methods and techniques that integrate to form our AI-Tracker system.
AI-Tracker is the “brain ” behind IAGON ’s Smart Computing Grid .
AI-Tracker is a dynamically learning system that continuously analyzes past and current data streams that reflect the availability of storage space and processing capacities of miners
The Smart Computing Grid is based on advanced Artifcial Intelligence components that include more than 100 Machine Learning algorithms , methods and techniques that integrate to form our AI-Tracker system.

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LOW COST

Since every business is opting for cloud storage, price is very much expensive.
Below is a comparison of some cloud storage services

Every blockchain technology seeks to solve the high cost in use imposed by traditional computing and storage means.
Currently, one can rent out 100GB of storage space from Dropbox for $99 a year. Even if a user does not employ the full 100GB, he or she still has to pay the price.
IAGON seeks to make an environment where cost will be reduced and where individuals can add value to each other by enabling collaboration without central authorities and middle men.

ARCHITECTURE

The Way the IAGON Architecture is Designed.
The IAGON architecture is designed by sectioning it into three distinct parts. These are,

• The Machine Learning Algorithm
• The Blockchain and Miners
• The Encryption/ Decryption Protocol
  

THE MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM

This performs as a mediator between the requests and the miners. Whenever a request is sent to the IAGON platform then the machine learning algorithm sends blocks of data over to the miners so that they can process and find matching signatures necessary for data processing.

THE BLOCKCHAIN AND MINERS

The Blockchain and Miners
This acts as the central processing system of data. The miners receives the data blocks from the machine learning algorithm to process data within these blocks, then they send the data blocks as well as the outputs that are required for the machine learning to identify the nodes, are sent for validation process to the blockchain network.
The Blockchain brake down these data blocks into blocks and then send these across the nodes. Then the SHA258 is used by the hashing algorithm to hash each block with its previous hash for creating a chain. The received data output from an individual node is matched against the hash of its source block and then validate against its header for determining the validity of the output. Thus the blocks are being validated through a systematic network system and the outputs the nodes will receive remain authentic. But, if any kind of manipulation detected within these data, which has been done by an individual miner then the system will reject the returning block and then it will send to a different node for processing. With this, every miner can receive incentives for their every successful data processing. The more data they process the more incentives they can get.

ENCRYPTION/ DECRYPTION PROTOCOL

This is more like the security of the system, it ensures the storage of data within any internal or internal platforms.
Basically, this protocol ensures that the data are being stored by maintaining maximum security within any internal or internal platform storage. This has created IAGON system a unique one among its kinds. The encryption is necessary for ensuring the security of data and as the decryption is required to unlock the encrypted data to its original state.

OVERALL COMPETITIVE BENEFITS OF IAGON OVER OTHERS

1. Extreme Security
   IAGON utilizes dual layer security, (Encryption and Blockchain Technology) that’s 100% secure and resistant to hacking.

2. Cost Effectiveness
   IAGON allows businesses to cut costs up to 70–80% since it relies on the network and requires fewer staff members.

3. Reliability
   24/7 operation of the storage grid, processing grid and the Blockchain/Tangle are guaranteed by IAGON platform. Their Blockchain-based services ensure 100% availability of stored files, without any “blackouts” that often happen in other centralized cloud platforms. They do this by applying Machine Learning techniques and predictive analytics for forecasting and preventing these events.

4. Efficiency
   The AI (Alexandria Protocol) optimizes the grid and finds the best solution for business needs.
   User Friendly Platform: Designed for trusted operations of decentralized applications on a single platform for every type of user.

5. IAGON provides miners with complete flexibility and freedom of choice in providing and consuming decentralized cloud services.

6. IAGON benefits the miners who provide processing power and storage space to the grid without requiring efforts when their servers and computers are not used by them.

7. Miners are incentivized to process the data quickly to earn rewards.
   Miners also receive incentives based upon the number of processes they perform. In other words, the more data they process the bigger the incentives.
   

USE CASE

Mr Georgechuks and Frank attended a local cyber security seminar, and the following points were raised on how to protect your sensitive data.

• Ensure proper physical security of electronic and physical restricted data wherever it lives.
• Lock down workstations and laptops as a deterrent.
• Secure your area, files and portable equipment before leaving them unattended.
• Don't leave papers, computers or other electronic devices visible in an empty car or house.
• Shred sensitive paper records before disposing of them.
• Don’t leave sensitive information lying around unprotected, including on printers, fax machines, copiers, or in storage.
• Laptops should be secured at all times. Keep it with you or lock it up securely before you step away -- and make sure it is locked to or in something permanent.
  Because Georgechuks wanted to protect his private information, he applied all these techniques but still got hacked and lost the privacy of those information.

While Frank having read about IAGON and saw its benefits, applied the points raised and also stored his data with IAGON but never reported any case of being hacked, and was even given an opportunity to educate others on the real deal which is IAGON.

PARTNERS

With the number of great partners, i believe they have a great future and they would make a difference in the field of decentralized cloud storage services.

INITIAL ADOPTERS

What Makes IAGON Unique from Other Blockchain Cloud Solutions?

I would say that what makes them different is the amount of thought they have put into business planning, value creation, company direction, product development, etc. Their senior leadership team members are not just coders or programmers. They have a solid track record and industry experience, innovating and disrupting markets. It’s common for a startup to focus on the product development and forget about the business, but this is obviously a mistake, since so many products get started but few succeed due to the lack of company vision and leadership. Checkout the brains behind the project below

MEET THE TEAM

TOKENOMICS

The IAGON is providing their Cloud Storages at the lowest service fee in the cloud industry. And to provide this facility to their customers they have developed cryptocurrency system for their platform. the crypto-token or the cryptocurrency system requires low maintenance cost but provides maximum security
The IAGON token is a has the high liquidity attribute and this has a stable value in the current crypto-market. The details of this token are as follows,
• Token Name: IAGON Token

ROAD MAP

Here is a video i created for IAGON showing its basic benefits

CONCLUSION

IAGON project presents interesting features for its users. It’s key attractive features include very low fees, enhanced data safety and the incorporation of tangle that fast tracks the processes to make up for the shortcomings of Ethereum Blockchain congestion. It can be also be said that the IAGON has a unique architecture with help of AI, Blockchain and encryption and decryption process of data. This architecture has everything that is required to change the current state of the crowd computing system. I hope this project will reach its projected goal in accordance with its roadmap.

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