Today, they need to go to the Storj site, create an account, and come back. For people not yet part of the Storj network, in phase two of our integration there will be tighter integration between FileZilla and Storj, so people who choose to use Storj will be provided with a very easy way to create an account. Right now, it’s seamless if they are already part of the Storj user base. How seamless will the experience be for Storj users? Will they have to set up an account separately? We keep the consistency in the user interface and procedures, so that transferring files with any of the supported protocols will offer the same look and feel. So today, if someone is using Amazon S3 through FileZilla, it doesn’t feel different from using an FTP server. We are on a roadmap where nearly every month we add a new protocol, for people who don’t need just an FTP client-they want a “Swiss army knife” to access different cloud providers’ services, and the more protocols supported, the better. The FileZilla program can talk to this tool and translates its replies into FileZilla's internal data structures that are used for all supported protocols.įileZilla Pro is sold to people who want to use FTP as a protocol and integrate with non-FTP protocols, like Amazon S3, Azure, and very soon Google Cloud, and not too far from today, OpenStack as well. Why are we able to talk to Storj through FileZilla? We've created a tool that uses the libstorj library to connect to the Storj service to transfer files. We have one hundred million downloads per year, and that’s only about FTP. It’s a free-as in beer, and as in speech-open source FTP client that has a huge user base. How is FileZilla Pro different from FileZilla, and what kind of integration will we see between FileZilla and Storj? They can also make some money through Storj if they become farmers on the Storj network. Thanks to the integration the teams have been working with, for the end-user, connecting to Storj feels no different than using FTP. It’s a unique service that FileZilla users can't get from anyone else. That’s why this relationship is special to us. The team is still making improvements to improve performance and reliability, but people using Storj don't have to be scared they are sharing their information with the NSA or anyone else. Storj is the only service we integrate with that enables us to provide our end users with a cloud FTP service that is truly private. Through this integration we can utilize Storj as a traditional FTP server. How is Storj different from your other cloud partners? We talked to Roberto Galoppini, Director of Strategy for FileZilla, about what makes the Storj relationship special. In the last few months, the open source FTP application has added new integrations, including one with Microsoft for Azure integration with FileZilla Pro.
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