Replication Strategies Deep Dive

Replication Strategies Deep Dive

With all these different types of replication types floating around one has to wonder which replication strategy to use where? Today we’ll demystify these different replication strategies to see which one should be used in which scenario.

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MinIO Batch Framework Adds Support for Expiry

MinIO Batch Framework Adds Support for Expiry

You can now perform S3 Delete operations using the MinIO Batch Framework to remove multitudes of objects with a single API request. The MinIO Batch Framework lets you quickly and easily perform repetitive or bulk actions like Batch Replication and Batch Key-Rotate across your MinIO deployment. The MinIO Batch Framework handles all the manual work, including managing retries and reporting

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Airgapped MinIO Deployments

Airgapped MinIO Deployments

In this post we’ll talk about what is an Airgapped Network, what to consider when deploying MinIO in such an environment and how to replicate and scale it thereafter with other airgapped sites.

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MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO provides a flexible Identity and Access Management system that can be integrated with popular external identity providers. MinIO IAM is built with AWS IAM compatibility at its core - access is controlled by policies mirroring AWS' IAM policies. While AWS supports myriad ways to control access, including ACLs, Bucket Policies, etc, in the interest of simplicity, MinIO'

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Myths about Deduplication and Compression

Myths about Deduplication and Compression

A lot of vendors offer compression and deduplication as a feature of their storage solutions. We critically evaluate these claims by looking at the two methods used to reduce the raw disk usage. Compression Overview Compression in overall terms, gets its benefit from reducing redundancy in the data you upload. This means that repeated or otherwise predictable data can be

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Leveraging Object Storage for Enterprise Legacy Data

Leveraging Object Storage for Enterprise Legacy Data

MinIO is built with speed and resiliency at the forefront, regardless of the type of environment you choose to run it on. Whether it's multi cloud, bare metal, cloud instances or even on-premise, MinIO is designed to run on AWS, GCP, Azure, colocated bare metal servers and Kubernetes distributions such as Red Hat OpenShift. MinIO runs just as

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The New Math on Backup and Replication

The New Math on Backup and Replication

The world of backup has entered a brave new world where traditional solutions still have utility but where the scale, speed of change and application landscape require different…radically different…approaches. This post seeks to lay out the challenges of this new world, where the line of demarcation exists and how to think about architecting a data protection framework that

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