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

Approximately 90% of all the data in the world is replicated data, with only 10% being genuine, new data. This has significant implications for an enterprise's data strategy — particularly when you consider the growth rates. For example, in 2020, the total amount of data generated and consumed was 64.2 zettabytes. In 2021, it was forecast that the

We have said it before, but it bears repeating. The cloud is an operating model - not a physical location. That is why you will find MinIO everywhere on the public cloud, on the private cloud, at the edge. We don’t differentiate and because we are cloud native we are cloud (location) agnostic. The public cloud has mindshare and

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