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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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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As AWS Local Zones expand - object storage is needed. AWS recommends using MinIO.
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As we noted back in April, MinIO will be deprecating the gateway functionality in a few weeks time. As Harsha wrote at the time, the gateway had served its purpose and was no longer viable. While all gateway users will need to make some decisions, there are some Azure gateway users (for the cloud) and this post describes what those
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Kubecon EU in Valencia, Spain was a welcome breath of fresh air for the Kubernetes community. While the Linux Foundation and the CNCF did great work in the pandemic, nothing is quite like seeing your “people” in person. That what Valencia delivered. I don’t know the attendance figures off the top of my head, but having been in Los
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DirectPV is a CSI driver for Direct Attached Storage. At the most basic level, it is a distributed persistent volume manager, and not a storage system like SAN or NAS. DirectPV is used to discover, format, mount, schedule and monitor drives across servers. Before we get into the architecture of DirectPV, let’s address why we needed to build it.
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There is a lot of momentum around Apache Arrow these days. A favorite of developers and data practitioners, its use in business-critical applications has grown considerably and data driven organizations like Dremio, InfluxData, Snowflake, Streamlit, and Tellius are all heavily invested. The drivers of this adoption are superior interoperability, simpler data architectures, greater speed and efficiency, more choice of tools
Read moreWe are in a cloud native talent crisis. It is not going to end soon. Given the depth of the crisis, it is pretty amazing to consider how quickly the cloud operating model has grown – from the public cloud to the private cloud and even out to the edge. Our clients and partners are all angling for more cloud talent.
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Primary storage is the storage your application talks to. In the cloud operating model that primarily object storage. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something.
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We just finished up our Storage Field Day presentation last week and one thing that was clear - there are a lot of folks in the analyst community that continue to be invested in the success of SAN/NAS. On the one hand we understand. There are far more companies in the SAN/NAS universe than there are in the
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We mentioned last week that we had our eye on the TechTarget Storage Product of the Year awards. They are among the most coveted in the storage business. TechTarget is a machine unto itself and part of that machine is a ton of talented journalists and analysts so winning it means you impressed a lot of smart folks. Everyone in
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MinIO is on a little bit of a tear when it comes to awards. We took down the Datanami Reader’s Choice award, the Stratus Awards for both Software-Defined Object Storage Technology and Overall Global Cloud Leadership, and today, the international Cloud Computing Award for Best Hybrid Cloud Solution. Celebrating its ten-year anniversary, The Cloud Awards identifies and celebrates innovation
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We were delighted to take home Datanami's Readers Choice award for Best Storage Solution this year [https://www.datanami.com/2021-readers-choice-awards/10/]. This is the sixth year the award has been given and it has quickly grown into one of the major prizes in storage recognition. As they say in English football - "an award worth winning.
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Let’s get a few things out there right away. First, Kubecon remains a shadow of its former self. In 2019 it was vibrant, even frothy. It was pretty sad this week in LA. The forecast was for 3,000 but we would be surprised if it was 2,000. My sense talking to others on the sponsor side was
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