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 [https://containerjournal.com/features/what-it-means-to-be-truly-software-defined/] . 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
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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 [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005471/en/MinIO-and-VMware-Extend-Their-Partnership-Through-vSAN-Persistent-Data-Platform-Interoperability] a significant expansion of our partnership [https://min.io/solutions/vmware] with VMware. This next phase represents a deeper collaboration from our award winning work [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180924005328/en/Minio-Receives-Rising-Star-Partner-Award-Pivotal#:~:text=%2D%2D(BUSINESS%20WIRE)%2
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As a general rule, when people think about object storage they think about one thing — the price per TB/GB [https://min.io/pricing]. 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
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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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