Most developers, engineers, architects and DevOps folks know MinIO. Not all know that the only thing we do is software-defined object storage. We don’t do file or block. We don’t offer a service, it is self-hosted. Our focus is singular. The result is that our object store is objectively, based on adoption, awards and customer feedback the best
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In this post we’ll talk about Erasure Coding and Erasure Sets, and then dive deeper into how to use the Erasure Code Calculator when designing deployments to make the most out of MinIO by opting for the right hardware configuration setup from the get go.
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You must have heard of different data formats like Parquet, ORC, Avro, Arrow, Protobuf, Thrift and MessagePack. What are they and how to choose the right one?
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Traditionally, the design, acquisition and deployment of storage required specialized skills and the ability to manage a fair amount of complexity to do successfully. Modern object storage has changed that. This is particularly poignant today - where the purchase of SAN and NAS appliances often take months, or longer, to complete. This stands in stark contrast to software defined object
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Learn how to use DataProfiler, an OSS project, to identify sensitive information, & you can then use MinIO object storage to protect data.
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Creating a framework for high-performance, cloud-native object storage is mission-critical in the modern enterprise. Take a look at The Buyer’s Guide to Software Defined #ObjectStorage to understand the key capabilities.
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Let open source software help you with simplifying enterprise conversational AI needs and let MinIO handle the storage solutions to enable continuous learning and optimize the knowledge base for improved chatbot experience.
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This post focuses on how Iceberg and MinIO complement each other and how various analytic frameworks (Spark, Flink, Trino, Dremio, and Snowflake) can leverage the two.
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As organizations organize themselves around data, they are becoming application-oriented. The modern application is a cloud native and data-centric application, and benefits from decoupled stateless, immutable services capable of exceptional performance and scale. While MinIO is available on every cloud — public, private, and edge, this post is focused on the Google Cloud Platform with an eye on why you need
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IoT applications have been exploding for some time, from the bleeding edge of the network to the factory floor, but now they are reaching critical mass. They already generate lots of data and that amount is increasing. Some of this data is processed locally but much of it needs to be sent someplace for further analysis. In many cases, the
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This post first appeared in The New Stack. With the constant evolution of the enterprise, machine learning and artificial intelligence have become board-level initiatives. Marketing claims aside, capabilities that seemed almost mythical a few years ago are now taken for granted as AI/ML becomes baked into every software stack and architecture. This is becoming known as AI-first architecture. In
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Modern infrastructure is all about availability. * Consider an online mortgage business. A provider has 30 seconds to provide a quote to a prospective buyer or another provider will win the customer’s business. * For online retailers, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s account for up to 25% of their annual revenue. * The SLAs that customers expect from an
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Primary storage is the storage your application talks to. In the cloud operating model that primarily object storage. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something.
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We just finished up our Storage Field Day presentation last week and one thing that was clear - there are a lot of folks in the analyst community that continue to be invested in the success of SAN/NAS. On the one hand we understand. There are far more companies in the SAN/NAS universe than there are in the
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The current generation of edge computing is still in its infancy. This is a remarkable statement given its size today ($6 billion) and expectations for growth ($61 billion by 2028). Nonetheless, with 5G just taking hold and the Internet of Things (IoT) economy exploding, the truth is we don’t really know how big it may become, or how quickly.
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This post first appeared in the Container Journal [https://containerjournal.com/features/what-it-means-to-be-truly-software-defined/] . The term “software-defined storage” is widely misunderstood by the vendor community. While analysts, both industry and financial, know that software-defined is both the present and future of the storage industry, customers who are unable to make the distinction may find themselves with a hardware- or appliance-based solution
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Protecting blocks is not the same as protecting objects. Learn where block-level RAID falls short compared to erasure coding in distributed object storage.
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MinIO server pools enable rapid expansion without the downtime and risk of rebalancing.
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The line between hybrid cloud and multicloud is blurry at this point. The hybrid cloud is certainly more expansive in its definition (public, on-prem, edge). The multi-cloud generally refers to multiple public cloud. What makes it blurry is that the cloud is a mentality - not a physical location. As a result, we see the terms used interchangeably these days.
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Lots of object storage companies like to talk about scalability while tossing around terms like exabytes and “infinite.” Unfortunately, many of the terms used to describe scalability make grandiose and misleading promises that don’t help enterprises build an effective storage platform. Claims made around the simplest use case, static archival data, aren’t translatable to the entirety of use
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