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MinIO Multi Cloud Object Storage Available on Azure Marketplace
Using the MinIO managed application to enable workloads written for S3 to run on Azure.
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MinIO Named a 2021 Stratus Award Winner for Its Software-Defined Object Storage Technology and Overall Global Cloud Leadership
MinIO was named a winner in the storage technology category for the 2021 Stratus Awards.
Read more...The Long Term Costs of Object Storage in the Public Cloud
The promise/allure of the public cloud is based on the concept that it is elastic. One can, with little effort, scale up workloads and, if desired, scale down those same workloads. We have written on this subject before - from the perspective of what workloads to consider as you evaluate what to take to the public cloud and what
Read more...When Companies Should Go to the Public Cloud + When they Should Come Back
Aaron Tilley of the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece (paywalled) today that speaks to one of the challenges that businesses are facing on the pandemic related technology front. The net of it is that companies are spending more and more on cloud costs, sometimes independent of their business outcomes. It doesn't compute long term. More importantly, we think
Read more...Kubernetes Storage Patterns
Kubernetes has fundamentally altered the traditional application development and deployment patterns. Application development teams can now develop, test and deploy their apps in days, across different environments, all within their Kubernetes clusters. Previous generations of technology typically took weeks if not months. This acceleration is possible due to the abstraction that Kubernetes brings to the table, i.e. it deals
Read more...What it Really Means to be "Cloud Native" in the Storage World
For Cloud Native, Architecture Matters The term ‘cloud native’ is widely used in technical circles but doesn’t have a particularly clear definition. The confusion lies in the fact that being ‘cloud native’ has little to do with the environment your application is deployed to—the term is equally applicable to on-premise or the public cloud. Rather, the term refers
Read more...Why VMware's Kubernetes Ambitions Depend on MinIO
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from VMworld was the “all in” bet that VMware is making on Kubernetes. VMware wasn’t shy about its ambition, with CEO Pat Gelsinger stating that “We will be the leading enabler of Kubernetes.” This reflects the reality of the market. Kubernetes has become the industry standard. Furthermore, Kubernetes has grown into more than just orchestration,
Read more...The Cloud Has Picked a Winner; Now They Are Enforcing It
The power of scale is well-documented in the world of business. Cloud providers - Amazon in particular - have amassed extraordinary scale in a very short period of time. The cloud providers are now using this scale to rearchitect how enterprises interact with their data. They are remaking the enterprise data landscape with two primary levers: price and performance. Let’
Read more...Experimental Amazon S3 API support for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Service
Some our community members have repeatedly asked for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and MinIO integration [1] . B2 is competitively priced and has a huge fan following. We also heard from Backblaze team that they are actively expanding their B2 cloud storage service. We added experimental support for Backblaze B2 backend in MinIO to add S3 compatible API support for their
Read more...Golang Internals Part 2: Nice benefits of named return values
You may know that Golang offers the ability to name return values. Thus far at MinIO we have not been using this feature much, but that’ll change since there are some nice hidden benefits as we will explain in this blog post. If you are like us, you may have considerable amounts of code as shown down below whereby
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