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A Global Telecommunications Leader and MinIO AIStor: Powering the Next Generation of Data Lakehouse for Analytics and AI

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 31 October 2025

1. Executive Summary Our customer, a global telecommunications leader, established a Data Platform team to transform how data improved customer experiences and business operations. Faced with ballooning data growth and legacy storage constraints, they replaced aging legacy data storage systems with a high-performance, cloud-native data lakehouse, built on MinIO’s AIStor. The result: a scalable, cost-efficient foundation ready for AI,

Migrating from Hadoop to a Cloud-Ready Architecture for Data Analytics

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MinIO on Dremio | 3 September 2025

Migrating from Hadoop to a Cloud-Ready Architecture for Data Analytics

A major financial institution turned their "outdated and escalating" Hadoop costs into savings by combining AIStor + Dremio on existing hardware. The hybrid approach delivered cloud elasticity while reusing their infrastructure, proving you don't need to rip-and-replace everything to modernize

Hadoop HDFS's Logical Successor

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MinIO on Performance | 3 September 2025

The "big data king" that enterprises spent billions on is dying. Not from lack of trying, but because cloud-native alternatives now beat it at its own game. AIStor is faster and cheaper than HDFS. The revolution is happening in quarters, not decades.

Migrating from HDFS to AIStor

AJ AJ on Modern Data Lakes | 11 September 2024

Take advantage of cloud native, Kubernetes-oriented, microservices-based architectures with object storage.

The Bank of the East - Replacing Hadoop with MinIO and Dremio

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Case Study | 17 August 2024

Our client, a global financial institution headquarterd in Japan, recently completed an ambitious Hadoop replacement project with MinIO and Dremio. You can see them present it in this talk from Subsurface but we thought we would write it up as well. Like most banks, the firm had built out a large Hadoop footprint to power its analytics and risk management

Migrating from Hadoop without Rip and Replace

Brenna Buuck

Brenna Buuck on Apache Hadoop | 29 April 2024

Migrating from Hadoop without Rip and Replace

Discover how to seamlessly migrate from HDFS to modern object storage without ripping out all of your current systems. Learn valuable strategies to retain essential tools and modernize your infrastructure for AI/ML.

The Bank of the North - A Quick Case Study for HDFS Modernization

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Case Study | 9 April 2024

Stories matter and customer stories are the best. The ones where they delivered jaw-dropping stats or overcame massive obstacles are the ones that garner the best headlines. They are also the ones that are the hardest to get published. We know, because we are going to share a few with you that we are tirelessly working to get published -

Data Migration from HDFS to MinIO

Sidhartha Mani Sidhartha Mani on Apache Hadoop | 15 December 2021

Migrate data from HDFS to MinIO and enjoy the benefits of cloud-native architecture.