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Iceberg Views in AIStor Tables

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Iceberg Views in AIStor Tables

With general availability, AIStor Tables will become is now the industry’s first on-prem and hybrid-enabled embedded catalog to implement Iceberg REST Catalog views. This is a notable addition. When AWS launched S3 Tables in late 2024, they shipped table operations but left views out of their REST catalog implementation. AIStor Tables closes that gap, giving self-hosted deployments the same

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AIStor Tables: Native Iceberg V3 for On-Premises Object Storage

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AIStor Tables: Native Iceberg V3 for On-Premises Object Storage

Apache Iceberg Format Version 3 represents a significant evolution in how table formats handle row-level operations, data lineage, and complex data types. AIStor Tables is the first data store in the industry to support V3, embedding the Iceberg Catalog REST API directly into MinIO AIStor object storage. This post explains what V3 changes at a technical level and why those

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You Can't Fake Object Storage: Multi-Protocol Promised Everything, Delivered Compromise

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You Can't Fake Object Storage: Multi-Protocol Promised Everything, Delivered Compromise

There's a disconnect at the center of most AI and analytics infrastructure. Whether it's GPU-accelerated model training or petabyte-scale Spark and Presto queries, modern workloads have pushed compute, networking, and orchestration forward. But data storage often remains anchored to architectures designed decades ago for different workloads. The result: state-of-the-art infrastructure bottlenecked by storage systems that can&

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How Nomura Modernized Risk Infrastructure with MinIO AIStor

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How Nomura Modernized Risk Infrastructure with MinIO AIStor

Executive Summary Nomura’s Risk Advisory division transformed its data infrastructure by modernizing from an aging Hadoop environment to a hybrid object-native data lakehouse powered by MinIO AIStor. This shift delivered measurable gains in performance, stability, and scalability, reducing operational costs and risk, while improving data availability and supporting future AI and analytics workloads. Key benefits included: * Performance: Benchmarking demonstrated

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MinIO AIStor-powered Data Lakehouse Helps Accelerate AI and Analytics for a Global Financial Institution

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MinIO AIStor-powered Data Lakehouse Helps Accelerate AI and Analytics for a Global Financial Institution

1. Executive Summary A global financial institution modernized its Data Analytics Platform, shifting from legacy, appliance-based storage to a high-performance, cloud-native MinIO AIStor-powered data lakehouse. This transition cut deployment time by 50%, maximized data insights, boosted AI model efficiency, improved existing analytics workflows, and enabled entirely new AI-driven use cases. 2. The Environment Like many global financial institutions, this organization

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Accelerating Issue Resolution With A Modern Data Lakehouse Built on MinIO AIStor

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Accelerating Issue Resolution With A Modern Data Lakehouse Built on MinIO AIStor

Executive Summary AMD, a global leader in high-performance computing, graphics, and semiconductor technologies, faced challenges with its internal engineering systems. Their systems, including ServiceNow, Jira, GitHub repositories, telemetry pipelines, and infrastructure logs, were developed independently over time, but they were deeply interconnected. This created data silos that obscured the connections across the engineering lifecycle, hindering AMD's agility in

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Introducing MinIO ExaPOD: The Reference Architecture for Exascale AI

Introducing MinIO ExaPOD: The Reference Architecture for Exascale AI

AI has shifted the baseline for infrastructure, from managing petabytes to operating seamlessly at exabyte scale. Agentic systems, long-context language models, simulation pipelines, and large-scale observability now demand storage architectures purpose-built for this data reality.  Today we’re thrilled to announce ExaPOD,  MinIO’s validated reference architecture for the exascale era: a one-exabyte, highly dense and efficient building block that

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MinIO Welcomes Ran Kurup as Chief Corporate Development Officer

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MinIO Welcomes Ran Kurup as Chief Corporate Development Officer

MinIO has appointed Ran Kurup as its new Chief Corporate Development Officer, marking the start of the company’s next phase of strategic growth in the AI infrastructure era. Kurup joins MinIO after two decades at Intel, including nine years at Intel Capital, where he led global portfolio development and worked closely with high-growth technology companies across AI, data infrastructure,

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Major global electric utility provider delivers modern smart meter data lakehouse powered by AIStor

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Major global electric utility provider delivers modern smart meter data lakehouse powered by AIStor

Our customer, a large electric utility company with millions of users, was faced with challenges common to utility and energy companies around the world: how to manage ever-growing energy demands, while diversifying energy supply to incorporate renewable and sustainable sources. A key element of their strategy is a smart metering initiative - bringing the power of technology and AI to

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A Global Telecommunications Leader and MinIO AIStor: Powering the Next Generation of Data Lakehouse for Analytics and AI

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A Global Telecommunications Leader and MinIO AIStor: Powering the Next Generation of Data Lakehouse for Analytics and AI

1. Executive Summary Our customer, a global telecommunications leader, established a Data Platform team to transform how data improved customer experiences and business operations. Faced with ballooning data growth and legacy storage constraints, they replaced aging legacy data storage systems with a high-performance, cloud-native data lakehouse, built on MinIO’s AIStor. The result: a scalable, cost-efficient foundation ready for AI,

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Major defense contractor relies on AIStor for portable data lakehouse and S3 hybrid cloud available under any conditions

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Major defense contractor relies on AIStor for portable data lakehouse and S3 hybrid cloud available under any conditions

A major US-based defense contractor needed to create an internal solution that allowed for the secure sharing of critical information with other allies and sensitive actors – a portable data lakehouse that could be scaled up and down on demand and deployed anywhere in the world, across a wide variety of deployment options and in challenging network environments.  Environment: Mission-critical applications

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How MinIO AIStor helped transform a global digital payments provider’s S3 private cloud

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How MinIO AIStor helped transform a global digital payments provider’s S3 private cloud

This global digital payments provider has provided online payment systems for nearly 30 years, seeing its highest rates of growth over the past ten years.  Its user base expanded from over 150 million to more than 400 million customers worldwide which boosted its total payment volume from $200 billion to more than $1.5 trillion.  This led to their data

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Financial Institution Reduces Fraud Risk using AI built on AIStor Data Lakehouse

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Financial Institution Reduces Fraud Risk using AI built on AIStor Data Lakehouse

1. Executive Summary A leading national payment and financial infrastructure provider transformed its analytics and fraud detection capabilities by migrating from a legacy Hadoop system to a modern data lakehouse powered by MinIO AIStor and Trino on Kubernetes. The shift delivered a 65% reduction in fraud model runtime, a fivefold increase in workload capacity, and significant cost savings by replacing

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