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Cloud Native Data Management Day - 2.5 MinIO Presentations

MinIO is a proud sponsor of Cloud Native Data Management Days [https://cndmday.com/] (CNDM Days) - a community initiative designed to bring together Kubernetes and cloud native data management enthusiasts. Featuring one day virtual events ahead of Kubecon Europe and Kubecon, the CNDM days feature a superb array of speakers from across the spectrum - developers, analysts, architects and

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From Open Source to Free and Open Source, MinIO is now fully licensed under GNU AGPLv3

From Open Source to Free and Open Source, MinIO is now fully licensed under GNU AGPLv3

With RELEASE.2021-05-11T23-27-41Z [https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2021-05-11T23-27-41Z] MinIO has completed its transition to the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (GNU AGPL v3) license, meaning that the server, client and gateway will also be licensed under GNU AGPL v3. You can read more about the license from Free Software Foundation [https://www.gnu.org/

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Kubernetes, Consistency and Commoditization - The Way of the Cloud

Kubernetes, Consistency and Commoditization - The Way of the Cloud

When you think about the cloud, it helps to think about the types of businesses that have been built with elastic compute, networking and storage as a foundational component and self-service/multi-tenancy as the vehicle for customer engagement. For the most part, those businesses succeeded at scaling by focusing their efforts on building their product, almost exclusively on a single

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The Scalability Myth

The Scalability Myth

Lots of object storage companies like to talk about scalability while tossing around terms like exabytes and “infinite.” Unfortunately, many of the terms used to describe scalability make grandiose and misleading promises that don’t help enterprises build an effective storage platform. Claims made around the simplest use case, static archival data, aren’t translatable to the entirety of use

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Introducing SUBNET Health

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Introducing SUBNET Health

SUBNET is the commercial engine of MinIO. It is how production instances of MinIO are consumed, from startups to the most valuable technology companies in the world. SUBNET combines a commercial license (important for the AGPLv3 obligations) with a unique support model that delivers 24/7/365 direct-to-engineer support through a MinIO-built portal that blends the best of Slack and

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Security Advisory

Synopsis: A signature verification bypass vulnerability against the MinIO server was discovered and has been fixed in RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z [https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z]. Severity: Medium Who is affected: All users of the MinIO server version before RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z  affected. Users access MinIO over TLS are not affected. Recommended Action for Users: All users are advised

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Five Years in the Making

Five Years in the Making

Today marks a special anniversary for MinIO. It has been five years since we had our first GA release on GitHub. The journey to that point and from that point (5,396 commits later) has been nothing short of amazing and we wanted to take a quick moment to recap our thinking when we started and where we are now.

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Running Hyper-Scale High-Performance Object Storage on VMware vSphere 7.0: A Technical Deep Dive

Running Hyper-Scale High-Performance Object Storage on VMware vSphere 7.0: A Technical Deep Dive

Bringing Together IT, Administrators and Applications The release of VMware's vSphere 7.0 introduced some exciting new features. One of them is Supervisor Services, which will allow you to install databases, message brokers, and hyperscale high-performance object storage directly from the vSphere UI. With the addition of Kubernetes automation, VMware has created a single platform that provides everything

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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 [https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/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

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Why MinIO Wins the Hybrid Cloud

Why MinIO Wins the Hybrid Cloud

We just wrapped Storage Field Day 2021 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARmIhJsWK8w] 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

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The Trouble With Cassandra: Why It's a Poor Choice For a Metadata Database for Object Stores

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

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