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Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)
Continuity (replication) is a better path than recovery (backup). MinIO keeps your business up in the face of disaster.
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Digging Deeper into Iceberg: ACID Transactions on Tables
The Apache Iceberg data lake storage format enables ACID transactions on tables saved to MinIO. ACID transactions enable multiple users and services to concurrently and reliably add and remove records atomically. At the same time, queries are isolated to maintain read consistency against tables that are in the process of being altered. You can put MinIO and Iceberg, in conjunction
Read more...Erasure Coding 101
Learn how Reed-Solomon erasure coding provides data protection for distributed object storage at scale.
Read more...Ransomware in 2022: Protect Your Backups
In 2022, every business must take precautions to protect against the serious threat of ransomware. In 2020 and 2021, we saw an increase in the number and severity of ransomware attacks, and 2022 promises to continue this fearsome trend. According to BlackFog, in 2021 there was a record total of 292 reported ransomware attacks. Of these, more than 80% involved
Read more...Data Authenticity and Integrity in MinIO
An overview of erasure coding, BitRot protection, encryption, immutability and versioning.
Read more...Continuous Data Protection with MinIO Versioning and Rewind
Learn how MinIO combines multiple built-in data protection capabilities to ensure that nothing is overwritten or deleted unintentionally.
Read more...Object Storage Erasure Coding vs. Block Storage RAID
Protecting blocks is not the same as protecting objects. Learn where block-level RAID falls short compared to erasure coding in distributed object storage.
Read more...Cohasset Associates Assessment for Object Locking on MinIO
While MinIO is known for being a high-performance, cloud-native object store, the security of the system and the resilience of the data have always been paramount. From erasure coding, bitrot protection, object healing, WORM and sophisticated, performant encryption - ensuring data is safe - across a number a different vectors has always guided us. Still, one feature we did not
Read more...Finally, a Ransomware Solution that offers Performance at Scale
There are dozens of use cases for object locking, but one that is getting a tremendous amount of attention these days is ransomware. Ransomware works by encrypting your files and holding you hostage for the encryption key. Until recently, backups were the forgotten part of the Ransomware workflow. Because they were “just backups” they were not well protected and as
Read more...Object Locking, Versioning, Holds and Modes in MinIO
MinIO supports a complete object locking framework offering both Legal Hold and Retention (with Governance and Compliance modes). Object Locking functionality is a requirement for many regulated industries from financial services to healthcare. Lifecycle management is an increasingly critical element in the data ecosystem. Data is the primary asset in most organizations at this point - more so than the
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