Strict Consistency is a Hard Requirement for Primary Storage

Strict Consistency is a Hard Requirement for Primary Storage

Enterprises rely on data to make decisions. Effective decision-making hinges on the accuracy, timeliness, availability, and security of data. Data consistency, an important factor that cannot be ignored when purchasing storage, involves ensuring that all relevant parties can immediately access the results of a database transaction once it has been finalized, either through commitment or rollback. This guarantees that everyone

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SUBNET, Engineering Creativity, and You

SUBNET, Engineering Creativity, and You

When we started MinIO, we set out to set a new standard for object storage. We built a software-defined, S3 API compatible object storage that is the fastest and most scalable solution available that isn’t S3. But we didn’t stop there. We are also crafting an entirely different experience through our SUBNET experience. SUBNET combines a commercial license

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The Architect’s Guide to Thinking About the Hybrid/Multi Cloud

The Architect’s Guide to Thinking About the Hybrid/Multi Cloud

We were recently asked by a journalist to help frame the challenges and complexity of the hybrid cloud for technology leaders. While we suspect many technologists have given this a fair amount of thought, we also know from first-hand discussions with customers and community members that this is still an area of significant inquiry. We wanted to summarize that thinking

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Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Challenge - UCE Systems and MinIO

Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Challenge - UCE Systems and MinIO

MinIO has partners across the ecosystem - from our cloud partnerships with AWS, GCP, Azure and IBM to more solution-focused partnerships like Snowflake and Dremio. We are pleased to add UCE Systems to our roster of solutions-based partnerships. UCE is a leading consulting firm focused on modern data platforms (like the aforementioned Dremio). UCE has brought dozens of enterprises out

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Get Started with MinIO on Red Hat OpenShift for a PoC

Get Started with MinIO on Red Hat OpenShift for a PoC

When we announced the availability of MinIO on Red Hat OpenShift, we didn’t anticipate that demand would be so great that we would someday write a series of blog posts about this powerful combination. This combination is being rapidly adopted due to the ubiquitous nature of on-prem cloud and the need of large organizations wanting to bring their data

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The Lifecycle of the Cloud

The Lifecycle of the Cloud

The double whammy of inflation (and correspondingly high interest rates for the foreseeable future), demand destruction and an uncertain outlook have companies aggressively looking for cost savings. Now. While reducing headcount is a current play for most of the tech industry, there is real money in the data stack. Every company is a data company at this juncture - it

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Multi-Site Active-Active Replication

Multi-Site Active-Active Replication

Synchronizing data between multiple data centers is a core competency of any object storage service. MinIO already checked this box with its performance optimized Server-Side Active-Active Bucket Replication [https://blog.min.io/active-active-replication/]. Initially, MinIO only recommended two MinIO deployments. Active-Active replication supports scenarios such as: * Same-DC Replication * Cross-DC Replication * Same-Region Replication * Cross-Region Replication Active-Active replication

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Kubernetes, Consistency and Commoditization - The Way of the Cloud

Kubernetes, Consistency and Commoditization - The Way of the Cloud

When you think about the cloud, it helps to think about the types of businesses that have been built with elastic compute, networking and storage as a foundational component and self-service/multi-tenancy as the vehicle for customer engagement. For the most part, those businesses succeeded at scaling by focusing their efforts on building their product, almost exclusively on a single

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