Personalized Payments for Storage-as-a-Service

Current storage offerings provide a small number of options in the form of fixed prices with volume discounting. This leaves storage operators to guess how much data customers will add over time. Instead, we propose that the operator elicits basic information about future usage. Such information can be used to operate the system more efficiently. In particular, we show how prices can be calculated that encourage customers to accurately report the range of their future usage while ensuring that the operator covers his costs.