(This comparison is based on the detailed analysis in the public GitHub Gist by Harshavardhana:https://gist.github.com/harshavardhana/0f44addfcafd1778bb503078834c74d1, covering 13,061 commits. All statistics, commit counts, and feature breakdowns come from that source.) As of late 2025, MinIO Open Source Community Edition is no longer maintained. No new features, enhancements, or bug fixes are being added. The
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OpenAI’s move this week to release two new open-weight AI models (gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b) just changed Enterprise Data Infrastructure forever. The news has rightfully made ripples across the tech ecosystem. Why? * Because these models are released under the Apache 2.0 license, users can for the first time in 5 years, run OpenAI models right on their own devices.
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Today marks a new chapter in MinIO’s story. With our $103M Series B, MinIO’s valuation tops $1B and represents a concrete, meaningful validation of our strategy to build the world’s leading object store. We have achieved this with a remarkable group of around forty people. It is a textbook example of how a small, disciplined, motivated and
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This post first appeared in the Container Journal. The term “software-defined storage” is widely misunderstood by the vendor community. While analysts, both industry and financial, know that software-defined is both the present and future of the storage industry, customers who are unable to make the distinction may find themselves with a hardware- or appliance-based solution that doesn’t quite meet
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With RELEASE.2021-05-11T23-27-41Z [https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2021-05-11T23-27-41Z] MinIO has completed its transition to the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (GNU AGPL v3) license, meaning that the server, client and gateway will also be licensed under GNU AGPL v3. You can read more about the license from Free Software Foundation [https://www.gnu.org/
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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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As a general rule, when people think about object storage they think about one thing — the price per TB/GB. Though a legitimate cost metric, it has the effect of making object storage one-dimensional and relegates it to archival use cases. Further, it distorts the value associated with this increasingly important part of the enterprise tech stack. Frankly, the legacy
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For Cloud Native, Architecture Matters The term ‘cloud native’ is widely used in technical circles but doesn’t have a particularly clear definition. The confusion lies in the fact that being ‘cloud native’ has little to do with the environment your application is deployed to—the term is equally applicable to on-premise or the public cloud. Rather, the term refers
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