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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We are living in a transformative era defined by information and AI. Massive amounts of data are generated and collected every day to feed these voracious, state-of-the-art, AI/ML algorithms. The more data, the better the outcomes. One of the frameworks that has emerged as the lead industry standards is Google's TensorFlow. Highly versatile, one can get started
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Overview MinIO and Splunk have a symbiotic relationship when it comes to enterprise data. Splunk uses MinIO in its Digital Stream Processor. MinIO is a Splunk SmartStore endpoint. In this post we explain how to use Splunk's advanced log analytics to help understand the performance of the MinIO object storage suite and the data under management. A quick
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KES is a stateless and distributed key-management system for high-performance applications. We built KES as the bridge between modern applications - running as containers on Kubernetes - and centralized KMS solutions. Therefore, KES has been designed to be simple, scalable and secure by default.
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With the announcement that MinIO was Veeam Ready for Object last week we felt it would be helpful to circle back and talk about an additional use case. In our first post we covered backups of VMware ESX. An equally popular use case is Veeam Backup for Office (VBO). The Office backup market is massive. Even with the advent of
Read moreIntroduction While MD5 hashing is no longer a good choice when considering a hash function, it is still being used in a great variety of applications. As such any performance improvements that can be made to the MD5 hashing speed are worth considering. Due to recent improvements in SIMD processing (AVX2 and especially AVX512) we are providing a Go md5-simd
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Veeam's V10 release adds object storage support in a big way. Find out how these two software stacks play together to deliver performance oriented backup and restore.
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Almost all of the modern cloud-native applications use HTTPs as their primary transport mechanism even within the network. Every service is a collection of HTTPs endpoints provisioned dynamically at scale. Traditional load balancers that are built for serving web applications across the Internet are at a disadvantage here since they use old school DNS round-robin techniques for load balancing and
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Edge computing is a hot topic and carries with it some confusion, particularly around storage. Handling data properly at the edge can ensure a scalable, cost-effective and secure infrastructure - but failing to set up the right architecture can lead to data loss, security vulnerabilities and sky-high costs related to the bandwidth needed to transfer data repeatedly to and from
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