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 [https://blog.min.io/deprecation-of-the-minio-gateway/] 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
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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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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 more...We 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 [https://blog.min.io/minio-wins-cloud-computing-award-for-best-hybrid-cloud-solution/] that we had our eye on the TechTarget Storage Product of the Year [https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/feature/The-best-enterprise-cloud-storage-of-2021] 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
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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 [https://blog.min.io/datanami-readers-choice-award-best-storage-solution/] award, the Stratus Awards [https://blog.min.io/minio-2021-stratus-award-winner/] for both Software-Defined Object Storage Technology and Overall Global Cloud Leadership, and today, the international Cloud Computing Award [https://www.cloud-awards.com/cloud-computing-awards/] for
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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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As we have noted before, one of the great advantages of being cloud native is that integrations are generally pretty seamless. We don’t want to oversimplify, engineering is engineering, but as a rule this makes putting different pieces together easier and more impactful. One such example is our work with Pulumi [https://www.pulumi.com/]. Pulumi enables cloud engineering
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The current generation of edge computing is still in its infancy. This is a remarkable statement given its size today ($6 billion) and expectations for growth ($61 billion by 2028). Nonetheless, with 5G just taking hold and the Internet of Things (IoT) economy exploding, the truth is we don’t really know how big it may become, or how quickly.
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We are at an interesting time from a technology standpoint. The cloud, and by this we mean a way of doing things - not a physical location, has created a yawning gap between cloud-native companies and legacy vendors (many of whom are giants). Only a few of these giants will make it to the other side. There are multiple reasons,
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What Amazon Web Services has done is truly remarkable. Over the better part of fifteen years they have built a business with an annual run rate in excess of $45B. Underpinning that remarkable growth is storage – specifically S3, launched back in 2006. S3 revolutionized the storage industry and the S3 API is now the standard in the cloud, replacing the
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The line between hybrid cloud and multicloud is blurry at this point. The hybrid cloud is certainly more expansive in its definition (public, on-prem, edge). The multi-cloud generally refers to multiple public cloud. What makes it blurry is that the cloud is a mentality - not a physical location. As a result, we see the terms used interchangeably these days.
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