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Ransomware in 2022: Protect Your Backups

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Ransomware in 2022: Protect Your Backups

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 Wins Cloud Computing Award for Best Hybrid Cloud Solution

MinIO Wins Cloud Computing Award for Best Hybrid Cloud Solution

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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Growth, Culture and the Next Phase

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Growth, 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

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Simplifying Multi-Tenant Object Storage as a Service with Kubernetes and MinIO Operator

Simplifying 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

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Disaggregation, Analytical Engines and Starburst Trino

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Disaggregation, 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

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