Modern infrastructure is all about availability.
* Consider an online mortgage business. A provider has 30 seconds to provide a quote to a prospective buyer or another provider will win the customer’s business.
* For online retailers, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s account for up to 25% of their annual revenue.
* The SLAs that customers expect from an
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Primary storage is the storage your application talks to. In the cloud operating model that primarily object storage. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something.
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We just finished up our Storage Field Day presentation last week and one thing that was clear - there are a lot of folks in the analyst community that continue to be invested in the success of SAN/NAS.
On the one hand we understand.
There are far more companies in the SAN/NAS universe than there are in the
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Learn how to deploy MinIO in distributed mode to get S3 object storage on Azure.
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MinIO is deprecating the gateway and will be completely removed in six months. This should not come as a surprise, we began informing the community in 2020 and have steadily removed unpopular gateways. In the last ten months, MinIO has only made bug fixes.
The community can continue to use older versions of MinIO past that date. We also encourage
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Working with a data lake of ZIP files? Learn how to download individual files from ZIP archives saved on MinIO.
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We mentioned last week that we had our eye on the TechTarget Storage Product of the Year awards. They are among the most coveted in the storage business. TechTarget is a machine unto itself and part of that machine is a ton of talented journalists and analysts so winning it means you impressed a lot of smart folks.
Everyone in
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In 2022, every business must take precautions to protect against the serious threat of ransomware. In 2020 and 2021, we saw an increase in the number and severity of ransomware attacks, and 2022 promises to continue this fearsome trend. According to BlackFog, in 2021 there was a record total of 292 reported ransomware attacks. Of these, more than 80% involved
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MinIO is on a little bit of a tear when it comes to awards. We took down the Datanami Reader’s Choice award, the Stratus Awards for both Software-Defined Object Storage Technology and Overall Global Cloud Leadership, and today, the international Cloud Computing Award for Best Hybrid Cloud Solution.
Celebrating its ten-year anniversary, The Cloud Awards identifies and celebrates innovation
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Learn how to install and customize the world's fastest object storage on the world's largest public cloud.
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Decommissioning hardware is an important component of the storage lifecycle - and MinIO has you covered.
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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
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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
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Lay the best foundation for cloud-native object storage and give developers and their apps the performance they need.
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Bring multicloud strategy to life quickly and easily with MinIO in AWS Marketplace.
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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
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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.
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Using the MinIO managed application to enable workloads written for S3 to run on Azure.
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