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Generative AI for the Enterprise

Generative AI for the Enterprise

Introduction Generative AI represents the latest technique an enterprise can employ to unlock the data trapped within its boundaries. The easiest way to conceptualize what is possible with Generative AI is to imagine a customized Large Language Model - similar to the one powering ChatGPT - running inside your firewall. Now, this custom LLM is not the same as the

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Deploying MinIO Tenant and Lab considerations

AJ AJ on Kubernetes |
Deploying MinIO Tenant and Lab considerations

Today we’ll talk how we use our local lab to test some of the key features and functionality to not only show you but also hopefully inspire you to elevate the technology and processes in your lab too that can make debugging any application a piece of cake.

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An Unintended Consequence of the AI/ML Revolution - Power Shifts in the Enterprise

An Unintended Consequence of the AI/ML Revolution - Power Shifts in the Enterprise

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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Confluent Platform with MinIO Tiered Object Storage Throughput Benchmark

Confluent Platform with MinIO Tiered Object Storage Throughput Benchmark

Confluent, Intel and MinIO conducted benchmarking and certification testing for MinIO Tiered Object Storage for Kafka storage. This blog post describes the observations and results of testing MinIO object storage as a backend for the tiered storage feature of Confluent Platform 7.1.0 on servers equipped with third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The scope of these tests was

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MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO provides a flexible Identity and Access Management system that can be integrated with popular external identity providers. MinIO IAM is built with AWS IAM compatibility at its core - access is controlled by policies mirroring AWS' IAM policies. While AWS supports myriad ways to control access, including ACLs, Bucket Policies, etc, in the interest of simplicity, MinIO'

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Strict Consistency is a Hard Requirement for Primary Storage

Strict Consistency is a Hard Requirement for Primary Storage

Enterprises rely on data to make decisions. Effective decision-making hinges on the accuracy, timeliness, availability, and security of data. Data consistency, an important factor that cannot be ignored when purchasing storage, involves ensuring that all relevant parties can immediately access the results of a database transaction once it has been finalized, either through commitment or rollback. This guarantees that everyone

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Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Some of the smartest minds in philanthropy are backing the concept of a simple yet powerful national ID system. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tata Trusts, the Omidyar Network and the Pratiksha Trust have all gotten involved with this movement because of its foundational capabilities for enabling a wide range of social programmes. They have put their resources

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Percona Streaming Backup

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Percona Streaming Backup

What is streaming mode? Essentially it allows you to backup with Percona xtraBackup without touching disk. When used alongside MinIO Jumbo, it is designed to upload and retrieve large objects from the MinIO cluster.

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Creating an ML Scenario in SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to Read and Model Data in MinIO

Creating an ML Scenario in SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to Read and Model Data in MinIO

Enterprise customers use MinIO to build data lakehouses to store a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, and work with it using ML and analytics. Data flows into MinIO from across the enterprise and the S3 API allows applications, such as analytics and AI/ML to work with it.   I previously blogged about building data pipelines with SAP Data

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YouTube Summaries: MinIO Event Notifications

YouTube Summaries: MinIO Event Notifications

MinIO’s training team recently completed a multi-part series on MinIO event monitoring, in which Will Dinyes brings us through five in-depth videos. By the end of the video series you should be able to register an event destination, subscribe to an event notification, and deploy a custom Python-based webhook.  Will kicks off the MinIO event monitoring series with an

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