MinIO was designed in the same fashion that the hyper-scalers were – with simple building blocks that limit failure domains but can grow infinitely. Still there are some features that you really need to have in order to go galactic in size. They are: Server Side Replication: With MinIO’s server side replication capabilities, organizations can create active-active replication across data
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One of the key requirements driving enterprises towards cloud-native object storage platforms is the ability to consume storage in a multi-data center setup. Multiple data centers provide resilient, highly available storage clusters, capable of withstanding the complete failure of one or more of those data centers. Multi-data center support brings private and hybrid cloud infrastructure closer to how the public
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With the introduction of Apache Arrow, language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations, MinIO data lakes can be much more powerful. This article explains how to make use of Apache Arrow by using ArrowRDD.
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Today we are pleased to announce a significant expansion of our partnership with VMware. This next phase represents a deeper collaboration from our award winning work with the Pivotal team and brings us into the mothership - VMware Cloud Foundation™ with VMware Tanzu™, as a launch partner for their VMware vSAN™ Data Persistence platform. We are pleased to contribute to
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Two days ago, on Sep. 08, research teams from Germany and Israel published a joint research paper describing another TLS timing attack - called Raccoon. This attack targets all TLS versions up to 1.2. The new attack exploits a timing side-channel during the TLS handshake when the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange is used to establish a shared key between
Read more...Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least - that you are a software company. This is obviously problematic for appliance vendors. Try as
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While MinIO is known for being a high-performance, cloud-native object store, the security of the system and the resilience of the data have always been paramount. From erasure coding, bitrot protection, object healing, WORM and sophisticated, performant encryption - ensuring data is safe - across a number a different vectors has always guided us. Still, one feature we did not
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Once we have convinced you of why you should pay for free software, the next question becomes: “what is the value of what I am getting from my subscription?” The MinIO Subscription Network is not one thing - rather it is a collection of technology, talent and licensing that creates a unique value proposition - one that will not be
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MinIO’s pricing is remarkably straightforward. You don’t need a complicated spreadsheet to estimate your monthly bill. We offer three plans. The Open Source/Community plan where you pay nothing. The Standard Plan ($10 TB/Month with a minimum capacity of 25 TBs) and the Enterprise Plan ($20 TB/Month with a minimum capacity of 100 TBs). We continue
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By introducing the ability to subscribe to our software online we obviously invite the question: “why should I pay for free software?” There are two conditions and three reasons: The conditions under which you should pay for free software: MinIO is the primary storage system for your organization (e.g. production)The data stored in MinIO is a critical part
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