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MinIO Introduces Continuous Availability and Active-Active Bucket Replication

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on 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

Turbocharging MinIO Data Lakes with Apache Arrow

Ravishankar Nair Ravishankar Nair @passionbytes

on Apache Arrow 17 September 2020

Turbocharging MinIO Data Lakes with Apache Arrow

With the introduction of Apache Arrow, language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations, MinIO data lakes can be much more powerful. This article explains how to make use of Apache Arrow by using ArrowRDD.

High Performance Object Storage for VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware Tanzu

Anand Babu Periasamy Anand Babu Periasamy on VMware 15 September 2020

Today we are pleased to announce a significant expansion of our partnership with VMware. This next phase represents a deeper collaboration from our award winning work with the Pivotal team and brings us into the mothership - VMware Cloud Foundation™ with VMware Tanzu™, as a launch partner for their VMware vSAN™ Data Persistence platform. We are pleased to contribute to

The Raccoon Attack - It Is All About The Timing

Andreas Auernhammer Andreas Auernhammer on Security 10 September 2020

Two days ago, on Sep. 08, research teams from Germany and Israel published a joint research paper describing another TLS timing attack - called Raccoon. This attack targets all TLS versions up to 1.2. The new attack exploits a timing side-channel during the TLS handshake when the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange is used to establish a shared key between

Comparing Software Defined Storage with Appliances

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Software Defined Storage 2 September 2020

Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least - that you are a software company. This is obviously problematic for appliance vendors. Try as

Cohasset Associates Assessment for Object Locking on MinIO

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Immutability 28 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, bitrot protection, object healing, WORM and sophisticated, performant encryption - ensuring data is safe - across a number a different vectors has always guided us. Still, one feature we did not

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, 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 creates a unique value proposition - one that will not be

The Beauty of MinIO's Pricing Approach

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on SUBNET 18 August 2020

MinIO’s pricing is remarkably straightforward. You don’t need a complicated spreadsheet to estimate your monthly bill. We offer three plans. The Open Source/Community plan where you pay nothing. The Standard Plan ($10 TB/Month with a minimum capacity of 25 TBs) and the Enterprise Plan ($20 TB/Month with a minimum capacity of 100 TBs). We continue

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 critical part

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