Storage ecosystems provide wildly different types of services to again wildly different segments of the addressable storage consumer market. This talk will quickly survey the decentralised and centralised storage landscape before moving along to work done motivated by a long standing goal of our research team: How to analyse multiple storage providers along with their disparate guarantees, retrieval methods, SLAs, etc., on the same "playing field."

In the course of this work, we went through the motions of building an evaluation framework which rightly could be called a "StorageBeat," in blatant analogy with L2Beat. An important component of the talk is explanation of the pitfalls of and methods for constructing insightful metrics. e.g., state-rentals, availabilities, cryptographically ensured durabilities, incentives guarantees, etc., for storage ecosystems.

As a take away, attendees will be on firm footing for making rational decisions to choose best the ecosystem for, e.g, their own projects & dApps. In practice we have run into enormous amounts of confusion regarding storage services and how/what they provide. If anything this talk will uncloud this cloudy scenario.