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Successful Strategies for the Hybrid Cloud

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Hybrid Cloud 13 November 2020

The Hybrid Cloud is a hot term these days. It should be. Ultimately it will represent the vast majority of enterprise cloud architectures (Gartner [https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/5-trends-drive-the-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2020/] is saying 90%+). The public cloud will continue to grow. The private cloud will continue to grow. The edge will continue to grow. All fueled by the data that continues

The Long Term Costs of Object Storage in the Public Cloud

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on AWS 29 October 2020

The promise/allure of the public cloud is based on the concept that it is elastic. One can, with little effort, scale up workloads and, if desired, scale down those same workloads. We have written on this subject before [https://blog.min.io/repatriation_wave/] - from the perspective of what workloads to consider as you evaluate what to take

Three Things You Need at Scale

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Software Defined Storage 8 October 2020

MinIO was designed in the same fashion that the hyper-scalers were – with simple building blocks that limit failure domains but can grow infinitely. Still there are some features that you really need to have in order to go galactic in size. They are: 1. Server Side Replication: With MinIO’s server side replication capabilities, organizations can create active-active replication [https:

MinIO Introduces Continuous Availability and Active-Active Bucket Replication

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Operator's Guide 6 October 2020

One of the key requirements driving enterprises towards cloud-native object storage platforms is the ability to consume storage in a multi-data center setup. Multiple data centers provide resilient, highly available storage clusters, capable of withstanding the complete failure of one or more of those data centers. Multi-data center support brings private and hybrid cloud infrastructure closer to how the public

Cohasset Associates Assessment for Object Locking on MinIO

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Immutability 27 August 2020

While MinIO is known for being a high-performance, cloud-native object store, the security of the system and the resilience of the data have always been paramount. From erasure coding [https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-guide.html], bitrot protection, object healing, WORM and sophisticated, performant encryption - ensuring data is safe - across a number a different vectors has always guided

Why Should I Pay for Free Software?

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on SUBNET 18 August 2020

By introducing the ability to subscribe to our software online we obviously invite the question: “why should I pay for free software?” There are two conditions and three reasons: The conditions under which you should pay for free software: > MinIO is the primary storage system for your organization (e.g. production) > The data stored in MinIO is a

What is in the MinIO Subscription Network?

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on SUBNET 18 August 2020

Once we have convinced you of why you should pay for free software [https://blog.min.io/why_should_i_pay_for_free_software/], the next question becomes: “what is the value of what I am getting from my subscription?” The MinIO Subscription Network is not one thing - rather it is a collection of technology, talent and licensing that

Three Applications To Start Your Disaggregation Journey

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on 10 August 2020

The aggregation/disaggregation wheel is technology dependent. We are, however, in a heavy wave of disaggregation as it relates to compute and storage. Given currently available technologies the economics are pretty straightforward – companies big and small can save 60% plus on a TCO basis simply by separating the compute/analytics layer from the storage layer. Sometimes we need a little

When Companies Should Go to the Public Cloud + When they Should Come Back

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Architect's Guide 28 July 2020

Aaron Tilley of the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece [https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pandemic-forces-businesses-to-confront-cloud-computing-costs-11595849519] (paywalled) today that speaks to one of the challenges that businesses are facing on the pandemic related technology front. The net of it is that companies are spending more and more on cloud costs, sometimes independent of their business outcomes. It doesn'

MinIO earns Immutability badge from the Veeam Ready Program

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Veeam 22 July 2020

We took MinIO’s partnership with Veeam up a notch today with the addition of Veeam Object Storage with Immutability badge. Already a member of the Veeam-Ready [https://www.veeam.com/ready.html] program, the additional badge puts MinIO in rarefied air - less than a quarter of the object storage vendors have been able to add this distinction. The

Finally, a Ransomware Solution that offers Performance at Scale

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Immutability 22 July 2020

There are dozens of use cases for object locking, but one that is getting a tremendous amount of attention these days is ransomware. Ransomware works by encrypting your files and holding you hostage for the encryption key. Until recently, backups were the forgotten part of the Ransomware workflow. Because they were “just backups” they were not well protected and as

Object Locking, Versioning, Holds and Modes in MinIO

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Immutability 20 July 2020

MinIO supports a complete object locking framework offering both Legal Hold and Retention (with Governance and Compliance modes). Object Locking functionality is a requirement for many regulated industries from financial services to healthcare. Lifecycle management is an increasingly critical element in the data ecosystem. Data is the primary asset in most organizations at this point - more so than the

EMA Research’s Top 3 - Hybrid Cloud Management: Enterprise Data Services

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Awards 30 June 2020

We are fans of EMA’s approach to research [https://www.enterprisemanagement.com/]. They go where the data tells them to and don’t rely on what “used to be” focusing instead on where the market is today. It is smart - predicting the future is hard but looking in the rearview mirror in order to drive is also fraught

Introducing Sidekick - A High Performance Load Balancer

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Sidekick 31 March 2020

Almost all of the modern cloud-native applications use HTTPs as their primary transport mechanism even within the network. Every service is a collection of HTTPs endpoints provisioned dynamically at scale. Traditional load balancers that are built for serving web applications across the Internet are at a disadvantage here since they use old school DNS round-robin techniques for load balancing and

Storage at the Edge

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Edge Computing 8 March 2020

Edge computing is a hot topic and carries with it some confusion, particularly around storage. Handling data properly at the edge can ensure a scalable, cost-effective and secure infrastructure - but failing to set up the right architecture can lead to data loss, security vulnerabilities and sky-high costs related to the bandwidth needed to transfer data repeatedly to and from

High Performance Object Storage, Kubernetes + Why You Can't Containerize a Storage Appliance

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Kubernetes 12 February 2020

There are two forces that are fundamentally remaking the technology landscape today. One is Kubernetes and the other is high performance Object Storage. They are powering (or are shaped by, depending on your perspective) modern, data-rich applications that include AI/ML and application logs. Either way, modern applications need Kubernetes and Object Storage and Kubernetes and Object Storage owe their

Why the Healthcare Industry is Adopting High Performance Object Storage

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on 10 February 2020

The healthcare industry is unique in so many ways. To begin with, it lacks a common objective function on which to optimize. This is because different healthcare organizations, both payers and providers, value different things. Profitability is not the universal goal - there are teaching hospitals, faith-based hospitals and not-for-profit insurance plans. Consider also that a large portion of the

The Wisdom of Crowds: Distilling the Storage Newsletter 2020 Prediction Panel

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on 14 January 2020

The hyper-connected Philipe Nicolas [https://www.linkedin.com/in/phnicolas/] is the editor of the Storage Newsletter [https://www.storagenewsletter.com/]. Each year he asks the leaders in the industry to weigh in with their predictions [https://www.storagenewsletter.com/?s=predictions] on what will transpire in the coming year. The list of companies is long and the respondents are

The State of Kubernetes: Five Takeaways from Kubecon

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Kubernetes 3 December 2019

This year’s Kubecon [https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2019/] was the biggest yet on almost every vector: attendance, announcements and keynotes :). In between all of that were some stark themes on the state of the movement, the evolving vendor landscape and the challenges ahead. While there are some great summaries, we wanted to share our thoughts on what we

Four Takeaways from Splunk .Conf19

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Splunk 29 October 2019

Splunk’s .Conf event is pretty remarkable. Not only is it the “geek prom” for Splunkers, it also an opportunity to take stock of where we are on the enterprise analytics journey. Here are our top four takeaways from the event and some thoughts on what the next few quarters hold. 1. Splunk grasps the accelerating growth of data and