At the beginning of the decade, the total data in the world added up to 2 zettabytes. It has grown to 59 zettabytes today. In a matter of 10 years, it has grown 30-fold. Unstructured data The majority of data that exists today are photos, videos or some kind of point-in-time events. These kinds of data do not have an
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The promise/allure of the public cloud is based on the concept that it is elastic. One can, with little effort, scale up workloads and, if desired, scale down those same workloads. We have written on this subject before - from the perspective of what workloads to consider as you evaluate what to take to the public cloud and what
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MinIO was designed in the same fashion that the hyper-scalers were – with simple building blocks that limit failure domains but can grow infinitely. Still there are some features that you really need to have in order to go galactic in size. They are: 1. Server Side Replication: With MinIO’s server side replication capabilities, organizations can create active-active replication across
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One of the key requirements driving enterprises towards cloud-native object storage platforms is the ability to consume storage in a multi-data center setup. Multiple data centers provide resilient, highly available storage clusters, capable of withstanding the complete failure of one or more of those data centers. Multi-data center support brings private and hybrid cloud infrastructure closer to how the public
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With the introduction of Apache Arrow, language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations, MinIO data lakes can be much more powerful. This article explains how to make use of Apache Arrow by using ArrowRDD.
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Today we are pleased to announce [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005471/en/MinIO-and-VMware-Extend-Their-Partnership-Through-vSAN-Persistent-Data-Platform-Interoperability] a significant expansion of our partnership [https://min.io/solutions/vmware] with VMware. This next phase represents a deeper collaboration from our award winning work [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180924005328/en/Minio-Receives-Rising-Star-Partner-Award-Pivotal#:~:text=%2D%2D(BUSINESS%20WIRE)%2
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Two days ago, on Sep. 08, research teams from Germany and Israel published a joint research paper [https://raccoon-attack.com/RacoonAttack.pdf] describing another TLS timing attack - called Raccoon. This attack targets all TLS versions up to 1.2. The new attack [https://raccoon-attack.com/] exploits a timing side-channel during the TLS handshake when the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange
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While MinIO is known for being a high-performance, cloud-native object store, the security of the system and the resilience of the data have always been paramount. From erasure coding [https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-guide.html], bitrot protection, object healing, WORM and sophisticated, performant encryption - ensuring data is safe - across a number a different vectors has always guided
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By introducing the ability to subscribe to our software online we obviously invite the question: “why should I pay for free software?” There are two conditions and three reasons: The conditions under which you should pay for free software: > MinIO is the primary storage system for your organization (e.g. production) > The data stored in MinIO is a
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Once we have convinced you of why you should pay for free software [https://blog.min.io/why_should_i_pay_for_free_software/], the next question becomes: “what is the value of what I am getting from my subscription?” The MinIO Subscription Network is not one thing - rather it is a collection of technology, talent and licensing that
Read moreThe aggregation/disaggregation wheel is technology dependent. We are, however, in a heavy wave of disaggregation as it relates to compute and storage. Given currently available technologies the economics are pretty straightforward – companies big and small can save 60% plus on a TCO basis simply by separating the compute/analytics layer from the storage layer. Sometimes we need a little
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Aaron Tilley of the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece [https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pandemic-forces-businesses-to-confront-cloud-computing-costs-11595849519] (paywalled) today that speaks to one of the challenges that businesses are facing on the pandemic related technology front. The net of it is that companies are spending more and more on cloud costs, sometimes independent of their business outcomes. It doesn'
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We took MinIO’s partnership with Veeam up a notch today with the addition of Veeam Object Storage with Immutability badge. Already a member of the Veeam-Ready program, the additional badge puts MinIO in rarefied air - less than a quarter of the object storage vendors have been able to add this distinction. The distinction is based on the ability
Read moreThere are dozens of use cases for object locking, but one that is getting a tremendous amount of attention these days is ransomware. Ransomware works by encrypting your files and holding you hostage for the encryption key. Until recently, backups were the forgotten part of the Ransomware workflow. Because they were “just backups” they were not well protected and as
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MinIO supports a complete object locking framework offering both Legal Hold and Retention (with Governance and Compliance modes). Object Locking functionality is a requirement for many regulated industries from financial services to healthcare. Lifecycle management is an increasingly critical element in the data ecosystem. Data is the primary asset in most organizations at this point - more so than the
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Gaurav Rishi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishigaurav/], Kasten; Kris Inapurapu [https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisinapurapu/], MinIO Kubernetes has fundamentally changed the way applications are architected, built and managed. The implications are widespread, but one area that requires a significant overhaul is backup and disaster recovery. In the Kubernetes world, applications are composed of microservices and short-lived containers, requiring
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We are fans of EMA’s approach to research [https://www.enterprisemanagement.com/]. They go where the data tells them to and don’t rely on what “used to be” focusing instead on where the market is today. It is smart - predicting the future is hard but looking in the rearview mirror in order to drive is also fraught
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A few months back, TDWI's James Powell sat down with MinIO co-founder and CEO AB Periasamy to talk about trends and challenges in the data space. The original interview (from TDWI's Upside) can be found here, but we include it below for posterity. Upside: What technology or methodology must be part of an enterprise's
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The recent announcement from AWS about the general availability of their new ARM-powered Graviton2 servers caused us to take another look at the performance of these ARM servers. In this blog post we describe the results which you may find surprising. Introduction MinIO [https://github.com/minio/minio] is an Apache licensed, open source S3-compatible object storage server with a
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Apache Nifi is one of the most popular open source data flow engines available today. Nifi supports almost all the major enterprise data systems and allows users to create effective, fast, and scalable information flow systems. Creating data flow systems is simple with Nifi and there is a clear path to add support for systems not already available as Nifi
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