The object storage world to date has been defined by the S3 API concepts of PUT and GET. The world in which we live now, however, requires more. Given that MinIO has more S3 deployments than even Amazon, it fell to us to come up with the next great S3 API. That new API is the Prompt API and it
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MinIO recently surveyed 656 IT leaders as part of a primary research initiative with User Evidence. The results were very interesting and underscore the massive sea change we are seeing in the enterprise, both around the movement to object storage and the interest in using object storage as the primary building block for an organization’s AI initiatives. We will
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Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least - that you are a software company. This is obviously problematic for appliance vendors. Try as
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We have said it before, but it bears repeating. The cloud is an operating model - not a physical location. That is why you will find MinIO everywhere on the public cloud, on the private cloud, at the edge. We don’t differentiate and because we are cloud native we are cloud (location) agnostic. The public cloud has mindshare and
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Our client, a global financial institution headquarterd in Japan, recently completed an ambitious Hadoop replacement project with MinIO and Dremio. You can see them present it in this talk from Subsurface but we thought we would write it up as well. Like most banks, the firm had built out a large Hadoop footprint to power its analytics and risk management
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The team at Insight Partners just released their State of Enterprise Tech report for 2024. There is a lot to consume in the 60+ slides, but we cherry picked the things that should be interesting to our audience - and frankly there is a lot of interesting stuff. I will leave the survey methodology stuff for you to consume, but
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The phenomenon of the public cloud is difficult to get your arms around. Since AWS kicked it off early in the century it has grown and evolved into a modern computing platform - creating the cloud operating model as we know it. Ironically, this standardization around the cloud as an operating model is the one of the reasons that cloud
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It is hard to believe that it was 13 years ago that Marc Andressen penned his famous blog entitled “Software is Eating the World.” In it he spoke of the disruption that modern software organizations were inflicting on traditional businesses. Thirteen years later, even in the face of stratospheric valuations for Nvidia, software continues to eat the world. The evidence
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Stories matter and customer stories are the best. The ones where they delivered jaw-dropping stats or overcame massive obstacles are the ones that garner the best headlines. They are also the ones that are the hardest to get published. We know, because we are going to share a few with you that we are tirelessly working to get published -
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Time for the annual KubeconEU review - it is unfiltered and occasionally unwelcome by the CNCF - but spoiler alert, Paris was a smashing success. We always love the people, we don’t always love the venue or show management, but Paris was a win and more importantly, Kubernetes is on a winning streak. First off, it just felt big.
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With so much product goodness coming out at once today we thought it would make sense to craft a quick summary post of all of the changes we have made and all of the features we have introduced. Let’s start from the top. MinIO now has two product binaries, the MinIO Object Store and AIStor. AIStor is now a
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The world changed for MinIO when we introduced the Console to our customers and community nearly three years ago. It was a massive leap forward in accessibility. The trusty CLI and MC commands quickly gave way to the speed and intuitive usability of our new browser-based GUI. It was a game changer for developers and enterprise IT admins. With just
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I suspect some folks will accuse me of clickbait titling. Others will say, that’s not really a reach - most folks will fail in their initial AI attempts but it doesn’t matter and the learnings are worth it. On some level both are right - but I think WHY enterprises will fail is worth exploration and may allow
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The calendar year 2023 will be a meaningful one, perhaps one of the most meaningful ones, when the history of AI is written. It was, in essence, the big bang. It started in late 2022 with OpenAI’s ChatGPT but it was the response that was so breathtaking. Within months we had Meta’s LLaMA 2, Google’s Bard chatbot
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Here we are with our semi-annual critique of KubeCon. We do it for Europe and we do it for North America and we don’t pull our punches. If you don’t believe us, check out our write up on Detroit. This year is very different. Chicago had some sizzle to it. There was buzz. There was unseasonably beautiful weather.
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A lot of ink has been spilled on the significance of the AI/ML technology wave (here are our posts). What doesn’t get attention, but probably should, is how AI/ML is remaking the technology power structure inside the enterprise. As companies reorganize around a data-centric orientation, they are also reorganizing who makes and executes the technology architecture. While
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It seems like more and more companies are touting themselves as one-stop shops for object, file and block storage these days - adopting the mantle of “unified” storage and offering to support a variety of storage protocols. The idea of supporting S3, NFS, SMB, HDFS, iSCSI, FCoE, NVMeoF and FCP all at once, is touted as the epitome of flexibility
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Most developers, engineers, architects and DevOps folks know MinIO. Not all know that the only thing we do is software-defined object storage. We don’t do file or block. We don’t offer a service, it is self-hosted. Our focus is singular. The result is that our object store is objectively, based on adoption, awards and customer feedback the best
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I wanted to share my thoughts on the semi-annual confab that is Kubecon, this one the European edition. These are fairly candid takes, I can be critical or complementary, but given how important this space is to us, it is worthy of analysis. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This was a superb Kubecon. The location was
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When it comes to storing and managing data, there is the modern, cloud-native way and there is the traditional, appliance oriented way. Needless to say, object storage is the modern, cloud-native way. While it would be simple to suggest that MinIO is hopelessly biased towards object storage (it is, afterall, the only thing we do), that would miss a key
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