Hybrid Cloud Object Storage
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Come and Get It...MinIO + VMware GA with VCF 4.2
With the GA of VMware VCF 4.2, MinIO and VMware's Data Persistence platform just got really easy to deploy. So let's get started.
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Security Advisory
Synopsis: A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability against the MinIO server was discovered and has been fixed in RELEASE.2021-01-30T00-20-58Z. Severity: Medium Who is affected: All users of the MinIO server version RELEASE.2019-12-17T23-16-33Z or newer are affected. Users that have disabled the MinIO browser UI are not affected. Recommended Action for Users: All users are advised to upgrade their
Read more...Storage Field Day Session #1: Understanding MinIO
As we said in our opening, we love Storage Field Day because it is a chance for us to reflect on our accomplishments while forcing us to confront our future. We say confront because the delegates at SFD are among the brightest, politest group of skeptics you are likely to encounter. They push you for answers, they challenge you for
Read more...Storage Field Day Session #2: MinIO and Kubernetes
Kubernetes seems to be the answer to a lot of questions these days. It should be—it is the dominant way to deliver compute, networking and storage to applications. Its dominance is surprising in a tech world where there is generally room for several players. This was a winner take all market and Kubernetes took it all. As we note
Read more...Storage Field Day Session #3: Innovation at MinIO
This is going to be a relatively short post because the good stuff is really in the video, courtesy of Daniel Valdivia and AB. The summary is that MinIO has a ridiculously talented engineering team that has been together for more than a decade. Many of them were part of the Gluster team and have forgotten more about file systems
Read more...Storage Field Day Session #4: Hybrid Cloud
We got crunched for time at the end of our SFD slot. Given how important the hybrid cloud story is to our future, I probably shouldn’t have left it for last. Too many great questions threw us off our schedule and we arrived at the start of the section with not enough time to do it justice. So what
Read more...Why MinIO Wins the Hybrid Cloud
We just wrapped Storage Field Day 2021 and during our session we generated a particular amount of interest around our hybrid strategy. At the end, we were a little compressed on time, but the message resonated and was the primary subject of the breakout room discussion with the delegates after the cameras stopped rolling. To say the hybrid cloud is
Read more...The Trouble With Cassandra: Why It's a Poor Choice For a Metadata Database for Object Stores
Cassandra is a popular, tried-and-true NoSQL database that supports key-value wide-column tables. Like any powerful tool, Cassandra has its ideal use cases - in particular, Cassandra excels at supporting write-heavy workloads, while having limitations when supporting read-heavy workloads. Cassandra's eventual consistency model and lack of transactions, multi-table support like joins, subqueries can also limit its usefulness. However, using Cassandra as
Read more...Using MinIO for Know Your Customer Data at a Major Bank
IntroductionDocument management is a core requirement for all sorts of regulated institutions - finance, telecom, healthcare, government and others. These institutions need to manage and retain an ever growing number of documents and regulatory guidelines often require these documents to be stored for a very long term (7-10 years). Take for example, KYC (Know Your Customer) documents. Anyone starting a
Read more...Why Small Objects Are Such a Big Deal
Over the last decade or so, object storage use cases have evolved considerably as they replace traditional file and block use cases. Specifically the need to work with small data objects is becoming commonplace. Yes, there’s still plenty of large objects but small objects are becoming more prevalent than large for specific workloads and application environments. Traditional object storage
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