Percona Streaming Backup

Percona Streaming Backup

What is streaming mode? Essentially it allows you to backup with Percona xtraBackup without touching disk. When used alongside MinIO Jumbo, it is designed to upload and retrieve large objects from the MinIO cluster.

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OpenSearchCon 2023 Talk

OpenSearchCon 2023 Talk

Apparently, the OpenSearch folks love MinIO as much as we love OpenSearch, the talk got accepted and we were invited to present it in Seattle. It was very cold in the Northwest but we were very excited nonetheless.

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SUBNET, Engineering Creativity, and You

SUBNET, Engineering Creativity, and You

When we started MinIO, we set out to set a new standard for object storage. We built a software-defined, S3 API compatible object storage that is the fastest and most scalable solution available that isn’t S3. But we didn’t stop there. We are also crafting an entirely different experience through our SUBNET experience. SUBNET combines a commercial license

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Get Started with MinIO on Red Hat OpenShift for a PoC

Get Started with MinIO on Red Hat OpenShift for a PoC

When we announced the availability of MinIO on Red Hat OpenShift, we didn’t anticipate that demand would be so great that we would someday write a series of blog posts about this powerful combination. This combination is being rapidly adopted due to the ubiquitous nature of on-prem cloud and the need of large organizations wanting to bring their data

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Leveraging Object Storage for Enterprise Legacy Data

Leveraging Object Storage for Enterprise Legacy Data

MinIO is built with speed and resiliency at the forefront, regardless of the type of environment you choose to run it on. Whether it's multi cloud, bare metal, cloud instances or even on-premise, MinIO is designed to run on AWS, GCP, Azure, colocated bare metal servers and Kubernetes distributions such as Red Hat OpenShift. MinIO runs just as

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Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store is a Bad Idea. Here is why.

Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store is a Bad Idea. Here is why.

When purchasing storage, the emphasis is usually on media, but it may be even more important to consider access methods too. You will need to take storage protocols into account when designing and procuring infrastructure, especially when you leave legacy storage behind in order to migrate to cloud-native object storage. However, object storage relies on the S3 API for communications,

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