Weka Violates MinIO's Open Source Licenses

At MinIO, we are dedicated to the principles of open source software. From the beginning, we’ve remained committed to this philosophy and that’s why you will find that the upstream and the commercial code are exactly the same. We are obligated to protect our software - particularly from companies that package it in their proprietary products and pass

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Update: Nutanix Objects Violates MinIO’s Open Source License

On July 19th, MinIO revoked Nutanix’s Apache v2 license to MinIO’s object storage suite due to violations of that license. This is an update to that post [https://blog.min.io/nutanix-objects-violates-minios-open-source-license/]. Nutanix admitted [https://www.nutanix.com/blog/open-source-statement] they violated MinIO’s Apache 2 license. The open source movement depends on the protection of intellectual property

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Growth, Culture and the Next Phase

Growth, Culture and the Next Phase

As we share the news of our Series B and the milestone valuation that accompanied it, I wanted to share some thoughts on our journey, our commercial traction, what happens next, and why culture matters now more than ever (and how you can be a part of it). Our Journey We have come a long way since we incorporated the

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Five Years in the Making

Five Years in the Making

Today marks a special anniversary for MinIO. It has been five years since we had our first GA release on GitHub [https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2016-03-11T03-45-50Z]. The journey to that point and from that point (5,396 commits later) has been nothing short of amazing and we wanted to take a quick moment to recap our

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MinIO Named a Vendor to Watch in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Object Storage and Distributed File Systems

MinIO Named a Vendor to Watch in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Object Storage and Distributed File Systems

Gartner just released their Magic Quadrant for Object Storage and Distributed File Systems, and they have an elite list of companies on their “Vendors to Watch” list. MinIO is on this highly selective list for the second year and we are delighted that Gartner continues to recognize our leadership in the space. MinIO is pioneering the concept of high-performance object

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