We wanted to share our thoughts on running MinIO on a SAN/NAS appliance. First off, you CAN run MinIO on a SAN/NAS appliance. While it is possible, it is not a good idea and we strongly discourage our customers from taking this approach. Don’t let your friendly, neighborhood SAN/NAS appliance vendor talk you into it without
Read more
Traditionally, the design, acquisition and deployment of storage required specialized skills and the ability to manage a fair amount of complexity to do successfully. Modern object storage has changed that. This is particularly poignant today - where the purchase of SAN and NAS appliances often take months, or longer, to complete. This stands in stark contrast to software defined object
Read more
Lay the best foundation for cloud-native object storage and give developers and their apps the performance they need.
Read more
WARP performance testing MinIO on Supermicro Cloud DC servers with NVMe drives.
Read more
SUBNET is the commercial engine of MinIO. It is how production instances of MinIO are consumed, from startups to the most valuable technology companies in the world. SUBNET combines a commercial license (important for the AGPLv3 obligations) with a unique support model that delivers 24/7/365 direct-to-engineer support through a MinIO-built portal that blends the best of Slack and
Read more
Overview MinIO and Splunk have a symbiotic relationship when it comes to enterprise data. Splunk uses MinIO in its Digital Stream Processor. MinIO is a Splunk SmartStore endpoint. In this post we explain how to use Splunk's advanced log analytics to help understand the performance of the MinIO object storage suite and the data under management. A quick
Read more
With the announcement that MinIO was Veeam Ready for Object last week we felt it would be helpful to circle back and talk about an additional use case. In our first post we covered backups of VMware ESX. An equally popular use case is Veeam Backup for Office (VBO). The Office backup market is massive. Even with the advent of
Read more
Veeam's V10 release adds object storage support in a big way. Find out how these two software stacks play together to deliver performance oriented backup and restore.
Read more
We approach things differently here at MinIO. When we started in 2014, we questioned everything about the object storage market as we built our product - thinking more like a data company than a storage company. We did it from scratch, using engineering first principles, an extraordinary attention to detail and a relentless pursuit of simplicity. We paid careful attention
Read more