Software-defined MinIO, with its flexibility and rich set of cloud-native integrations, can be deployed in single or multi-tenant modes, and this post is designed to help you determine the appropriate architecture for your deployment.
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Learn how to monitor and alert on metrics using Grafana Mimir and save data to MinIO for persistence.
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Encrypting network traffic is low-hanging fruit when securing IT infrastructure. MinIO follows a pragmatic approach when it comes to TLS. It has to be secure, it has to be performant and it has to be simple. Things that matter In almost all cases, there are just a couple of things we need to take into consideration: * The TLS version. * The
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LXD is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager for Linux systems from Canonical Ltd. LXD lets you manage your containers with a simple command line tool or via a REST API. LXMIN (lex-min) is a simple backup and restore tool for LXD instances (containers or virtual machines) using MinIO object storage. It provides both a command line
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Install and configure Loki, Promtail, Grafana and MinIO to quickly get started working with log data.
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Take advantage of MinIO’s performance, data protection and S3 API functionality for log management and analysis.
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While users take it for granted that infrastructure is available, you know that metrics, monitoring and alerting are critical to operations.
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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 [https://www.blackfog.com/2021-ransomware-attack-report/], in 2021 there was a record total of 292 reported ransomware attacks. Of
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Learn how to secure data in transit, data at-rest and establish role-based access control policies in the first of a series of blog posts about securing MinIO.
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With today’s announcement [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/starburst-announces-new-product-release-which-extends-flexibility-when-building-data-lakehouse-architecture-301425279.html] of Starburst’s support for MinIO, it made sense to revisit the architectural trends that are becoming the standard for analytics workloads. Starburst provides a perfect example as we shall see shortly. The architecture follows the model of disaggregating storage and compute. Modern, high speed networks
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We took MinIO’s partnership with Veeam up a notch today with the addition of Veeam Object Storage with Immutability badge. Already a member of the Veeam-Ready [https://www.veeam.com/ready.html] program, the additional badge puts MinIO in rarefied air - less than a quarter of the object storage vendors have been able to add this distinction. The
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Apache Nifi [https://nifi.apache.org/] is one of the most popular open source data flow engines available today. Nifi supports almost all the major enterprise data systems and allows users to create effective, fast, and scalable information flow systems. Creating data flow systems is simple with Nifi and there is a clear path to add support for systems not
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We are living in a transformative era defined by information and AI. Massive amounts of data are generated and collected every day to feed these voracious, state-of-the-art, AI/ML algorithms. The more data, the better the outcomes. One of the frameworks that has emerged as the lead industry standards is Google's TensorFlow [https://www.tensorflow.org/]. Highly versatile,
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Overview MinIO and Splunk have a symbiotic relationship when it comes to enterprise data. Splunk uses MinIO in its Digital Stream Processor. MinIO is a Splunk SmartStore endpoint. In this post we explain how to use Splunk's advanced log analytics to help understand the performance of the MinIO object storage suite and the data under management. A quick
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KES is a stateless and distributed key-management system for high-performance applications. We built KES as the bridge between modern applications - running as containers on Kubernetes - and centralized KMS solutions. Therefore, KES has been designed to be simple, scalable and secure by default.
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With the announcement that MinIO was Veeam Ready for Object last week we felt it would be helpful to circle back and talk about an additional use case. In our first post [https://blog.min.io/minio-high-performance-object-storage-for-veeam-backup-and-recovery/] we covered backups of VMware ESX. An equally popular use case is Veeam Backup for Office (VBO). The Office backup market is massive.
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Veeam's V10 release adds object storage support in a big way. Find out how these two software stacks play together to deliver performance oriented backup and restore.
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With another Strata in the rearview mirror, it is time to reflect on what we saw and heard during the week. Strata is clearly a data science show at this point but data science is broad topic. Our perspective, as a provider of high performance object storage, is framed accordingly and we focus on the data stack more than we
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How to use Apache Flink to build a private cloud data pipeline for a variety of use cases.
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In this post, we learn about Pivotal Container Service deployment and how to use the pks command line tool to create and manage Kubernetes clusters. We also saw how to deploy Minio once your PKS Kubernetes cluster is set up and running.
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