A cloud needs hardware/servers to function. Servers of all shapes and sizes can be added. The production of Cloud Capacity is called Farming and parties who add these servers to the grid are called Farmers.
Farmers download the Zero-OS operating system and boot their servers. Once booted, these servers become 3Nodes. The 3Nodes will register themselves in a blockchain. Once registered, the capacity of the 3Nodes will become available. This enables a peer2peer environment for people or companies to reserve their Internet Capacity directly from the hardware but yet allowing full control by commercial parties if that would be required.
## Ultra Scalable
This architecture scales to the planet.
## Zero-OS
We have build our own operating system called Zero-OS, which was based starting from a Linux Kernel with as purpose to remove all the unnecessary complexities found on contemporary OS's.
Zero-OS supports a small number of primitives, and performslow-level functions natively.
It delivers 3 primitive functions:
- storage capacity
- compute capacity
- network capacity
There is no shell, local nor remote attached to Zero-OS. Given its shell-less nature, the people and organizations, called farmers, that run 3nodes cannot issue any commands nor access its features. In that sense, Zero-OS enables a "zero people" (autonomous) Decentralzied Cloud, meaning hackers cannot get in, while also eliminating human error from the paradigm.
The purpose of the smart contract for IT is to create and enable autonomous IT. Autonomous self-driving IT is possible.
Once a smart contract for IT is created, it will be registered in the TFChain Blockchain.
### TFChain
This blockchain does the following:
- registry for all 3bots (identity system, aka phonebook)
- registry for all farmers & 3nodes
- registry for our reputation system
- info as required for the Smart Contract for IT
This is the hart of our operational system of our decentralized cloud.
### Web Gateways
The Web Gateway is a mechanism to connect the private (overlay) networks (Mycelium) to the open Internet. By not providing an open and direct path in to the private network, a lot of malicious phishing and hacking attempts are stopped at the Web Gateway level for container applications.
