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 Enterprise Object Store and the MinIO Object Store.
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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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There is an interesting dynamic emerging in the world of backup and restore. As data grows - it effectively outstrips the ability of even the most sophisticated backup vendor to deliver an acceptable Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Where that problem begins to emerge depends on a number of different factors - but it starts to
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This week is always one of reflection. With new outlets pushing their predictions traffic into October and November, we find ourselves taking this week to look back on what we wrote, and more importantly, what our readers read. We had a bang up year on the blog front. We increased pageviews year over year by 80% and increased readers by
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Recently, MinIO achieved a major milestone, passing the one billion docker downloads mark. Almost simultaneously, MinIO notched its 20,000th member of its public Slack community and its 35,000th GitHub Stargazers - putting the company in the top 250 repositories on the site (out of 28 million repositories). There are some that will say that those are vanity metrics,
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Our love for Kubecon is well documented. When there, we are among friends, partners, customers and prospects - this year was no different, and we had the best conversations we have had at any show this year. The Kubernetes community and MinIO grew up together and thrived together and we remain bullish on what we can achieve together. There are,
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Creating a framework for high-performance, cloud-native object storage is mission-critical in the modern enterprise. Take a look at The Buyer’s Guide to Software Defined #ObjectStorage to understand the key capabilities.
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The Panic Button is an immensely useful component of SUBNET. Learn how it works, what happens, and why people love it so much (even if they don't like what precedes the pressing of it).
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VMware Explore kicks off tomorrow evening in San Francisco. It will not be the same event as the last in-person VMworld in 2019 - both in terms of attendance and in terms of content. A lot has happened since then. For starters, VMware has changed hands twice since then - spun out of Dell and then bought by Broadcom. Pat
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Modern enterprises are data-driven and cloud-centric. The latter is a mentality, not a place. The core concepts of the cloud: containerization, orchestration, APIs and automation are the defining characteristics of success for companies in the modern world. Central to this mentality, indeed, perhaps the defining characteristic, is Kubernetes. Kubernetes initially gained popularity as the go-to platform for deploying and orchestrating
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