How to Install MinIO in Distributed Mode on AWS EC2
Learn how to install and customize the world's fastest object storage on the world's largest public cloud.
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Decommissioning Server Pools with mc admin decommission
Decommissioning hardware is an important component of the storage lifecycle - and MinIO has you covered.
Read moreValidation and Vision: Thoughts on Our Series B
Today marks a new chapter in MinIO’s story. With our $103M Series B, MinIO’s valuation tops $1B and represents a concrete, meaningful validation of our strategy to build the world’s leading object store. We have achieved this with a remarkable group of around forty people. It is a textbook example of how a small, disciplined, motivated and
Read moreGrowth, Culture and the Next Phase
As we share the news of our Series B and the milestone valuation that accompanied it, I wanted to share some thoughts on our journey, our commercial traction, what happens next, and why culture matters now more than ever (and how you can be a part of it). Our Journey We have come a long way since we incorporated the
Read moreObject Storage is Primary Storage
Stellar performance-at-scale, flexibility and consistency make object storage the best choice for cloud-native enterprises.
Read moreBest Practices for Deploying MinIO in Virtualized Environments
Lay the best foundation for cloud-native object storage and give developers and their apps the performance they need.
Read moreMinIO Multi Cloud Object Storage Available on AWS Marketplace
Bring multicloud strategy to life quickly and easily with MinIO in AWS Marketplace.
Read moreSimplifying Multi-Tenant Object Storage as a Service with Kubernetes and MinIO Operator
This post was updated on 1.12.22. Object storage as a service is the hottest concept in storage today. The reason is straightforward: object storage is the storage class of the cloud and the ability to provision it seamlessly to applications or developers makes it immensely valuable to enterprises of any size. The challenge is that object storage as
Read moreHow to Secure MinIO - Part 1
Learn how to secure data in transit, data at-rest and establish role-based access control policies in the first of a series of blog posts about securing MinIO.
Read moreMinIO Multi Cloud Object Storage Available on Azure Marketplace
Using the MinIO managed application to enable workloads written for S3 to run on Azure.
Read moreUpdated NVMe Benchmark: 2.6Tbps+ for READS
MinIO is a strong believer in transparency and data driven discussions. It is why we publish our benchmarks and challenge the rest of the industry to do so as well. It also is why we develop tools that allow a clean, clear measurement of performance and can be easily replicated. We want people to test for themselves. Further, we do
Read moreMinIO Versioning, Metadata and Storage Deep Dive
Dig into MinIO internals and learn how this distributed object storage solution is optimized to handle thousands of versions of a single object.
Read moreData Migration from HDFS to MinIO
Migrate data from HDFS to MinIO and enjoy the benefits of cloud-native architecture.
Read moreDatanami's Readers Pick MinIO as Best Storage Solution
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.
Read moreA Great Group of GUIs
MinIO proves that anyone can be an object storage admin given the right GUI.
Read moreSimplicity Saves
Don’t let unintended complexity destroy cloud-native efficiency.
Read moreIntroducing Performance Test for MinIO
One-click automated performance testing for MinIO clusters.
Read moreDisaggregation, Analytical Engines and Starburst Trino
With today’s announcement of Starburst’s support for MinIO, it made sense to revisit the architectural trends that are becoming the standard for analytics workloads. Starburst provides a perfect example as we shall see shortly. The architecture follows the model of disaggregating storage and compute. Modern, high speed networks have obsoleted the old approaches espoused by the many defunct
Read moreCertificate-based Authentication for S3
Security is paramount at MinIO and sits up there with performance, simplicity and resilience in the pantheon of things that matter. MinIO encrypts data when stored on disk and when transmitted over the network. MinIO’s state-of-the-art encryption schemes support granular object-level encryption using modern, industry-standard encryption algorithms, such as AES-256-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305, and AES-CBC. MinIO is fully compatible with S3
Read moreData Authenticity and Integrity in MinIO
An overview of erasure coding, BitRot protection, encryption, immutability and versioning.
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