Filecoin is the sister protocol of IPFS. While neither protocol depends on each other, they are perfectly complementary. IPFS handles high performance distribution of objects; Filecoin handles incentivising the world to backup/seed objects.
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# IPFS Cloud
# See also - Icotopia - Fedwiki on IPFS - IPFS - InterPlanetary File System