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.