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

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 6 November 2025

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

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

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 31 October 2025

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,

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

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 23 October 2025

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

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

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 23 October 2025

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

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

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 23 October 2025

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

Revolutionizing Life Sciences with AI and a Hybrid-Cloud Data Lakehouse

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 23 October 2025

In the rapidly evolving TechBio industry, one innovative life sciences company puts technology at the forefront of its approach to drug discovery and experimentation. They operate one of the fastest privately owned supercomputers in the pharmaceutical sector, enabling unprecedented computational scale in biological research. Powered by a bespoke and AI-driven scientific operating system, their mission is to transform and accelerate

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