The Architect’s Guide: A Modern Datalake Reference Architecture

The Architect’s Guide: A Modern Datalake Reference Architecture

An abbreviated version of this post appeared on The New Stack on March 26th, 2024. Businesses aiming to maximize their data assets are adopting scalable, flexible, and unified data storage and analytics approaches. This trend is driven by enterprise architects tasked with crafting infrastructures that align with evolving business demands. A Modern Datalake architecture addresses this need by integrating the

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Une dépêche de Kubecon Paris

Une dépêche de Kubecon Paris

Time for the annual KubeconEU review - it is unfiltered and occasionally unwelcome by the CNCF - but spoiler alert, Paris was a smashing success. We always love the people, we don’t always love the venue or show management, but Paris was a win and more importantly, Kubernetes is on a winning streak. First off, it just felt big.

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Architect’s Guide to a Reference Architecture for an AI/ML Datalake

Architect’s Guide to a Reference Architecture for an AI/ML Datalake

An abbreviated version of this post appeared on The New Stack on March 19th, 2024. In enterprise artificial intelligence, there are two main types of models: discriminative and generative. Discriminative models are used to classify or predict data, while generative models are used to create new data. Even though Generative AI has dominated the news of late, organizations are still

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MinIO AIStor Feature Set

MinIO AIStor Feature Set

With so much product goodness coming out at once today we thought it would make sense to craft a quick summary post of all of the changes we have made and all of the features we have introduced. Let’s start from the top.  MinIO now has two product binaries, the MinIO Object Store and AIStor. AIStor is now a

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A Single Pane of Glass - The AIStor Global Console

A Single Pane of Glass - The AIStor Global Console

The world changed for MinIO when we introduced the Console to our customers and community nearly three years ago. It was a massive leap forward in accessibility. The trusty CLI and MC commands quickly gave way to the speed and intuitive usability of our new browser-based GUI. It was a game changer for developers and enterprise IT admins. With just

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Solving Scale in Security: MinIO Key Management Server

Solving Scale in Security: MinIO Key Management Server

In the realm of robust and dependable storage solutions, MinIO stands out as a persistence layer, offering organizations secure, durable, and scalable storage options. Often entrusted with mission-critical data, MinIO plays a crucial role in ensuring high availability, sometimes on a global scale. The nature of the stored data, ranging from financial and healthcare records to intricate product details and

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A Firewall Designed for Data: MinIO Firewall

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A Firewall Designed for Data: MinIO Firewall

Learn about MinIO Firewall, a robust solution tailored to safeguard data within modern enterprises. Discover its lightweight yet powerful features, like bandwidth throttling, load balancing, and rule flexibility, all manageable through the intuitive MinIO Global Console.

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The Story of DirectPV

The Story of DirectPV

In 2020, MinIO implemented Direct Persistent Volumes (DirectPV) for Kubernetes-based deployments of MinIO Storage. DirectPV is similar to LocalPV but dynamically provisioned. In this post, I will describe the interesting design decisions that went into creating DirectPV. But before diving into the design details, let’s start with a quick review of Direct Persistent Volumes vs. Network Persistent Volumes. What

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