Traditionally, the design, acquisition and deployment of storage required specialized skills and the ability to manage a fair amount of complexity to do successfully. Modern object storage has changed that. This is particularly poignant today - where the purchase of SAN and NAS appliances often take months, or longer, to complete. This stands in stark contrast to software defined object
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Recently, MinIO achieved a major milestone, passing the one billion docker downloads mark. Almost simultaneously, MinIO notched its 20,000th member of its public Slack community and its 35,000th GitHub Stargazers - putting the company in the top 250 repositories on the site (out of 28 million repositories). There are some that will say that those are vanity metrics,
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The lack of a clear data regulation creates a nightmare scenario for CIO’s who are left guessing how and when to treat consumer data with what level of care. Forward looking organizations should prepare for inevitable regulations by ensuring that enterprise data systems are designed to reduce data exposure, identify encryption gaps and track/manage sensitive data in a
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When we started in late 2014, our stated goal was to be AWS S3, but for the rest of the world. Since then we have been working with a single focus to achieve that goal. Today marks a major milestone towards that goal, from zero lines of code in 2014 to a billion docker downloads with deployments across the globe.
Read more...On July 19th, MinIO revoked Nutanix’s Apache v2 license to MinIO’s object storage suite due to violations of that license. This is an update to that post. Nutanix admitted they violated MinIO’s Apache 2 license. The open source movement depends on the protection of intellectual property to ensure freedom for all the users. Nutanix’s behavior in
Read more...MinIO is the creator of MinIO Object Storage, an open source object storage platform. We strongly believe in keeping our software open source - the best quality software is made with community collaboration, so people are free to innovate and improve. Open source licenses are essential to ensuring people know where their software comes from, and can keep it secure
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Learn how to build a cloud-native analytics and visualization stack backed by MinIO.
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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
Read more...MinIO is deprecating the gateway and will be completely removed in six months. This should not come as a surprise, we began informing the community in 2020 and have steadily removed unpopular gateways. In the last ten months, MinIO has only made bug fixes. The community can continue to use older versions of MinIO past that date. We also encourage
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How to pair fast and efficient search with high-performance Kubernetes-native object storage.
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With RELEASE.2021-05-11T23-27-41Z MinIO has completed its transition to the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (GNU AGPL v3) license, meaning that the server, client and gateway will also be licensed under GNU AGPL v3. You can read more about the license from Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. The client SDKs will remain under Apache v2
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With the introduction of Apache Arrow, language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations, MinIO data lakes can be much more powerful. This article explains how to make use of Apache Arrow by using ArrowRDD.
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Once we have convinced you of why you should pay for free software, the next question becomes: “what is the value of what I am getting from my subscription?” The MinIO Subscription Network is not one thing - rather it is a collection of technology, talent and licensing that creates a unique value proposition - one that will not be
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By introducing the ability to subscribe to our software online we obviously invite the question: “why should I pay for free software?” There are two conditions and three reasons: The conditions under which you should pay for free software: MinIO is the primary storage system for your organization (e.g. production)The data stored in MinIO is a critical part
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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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The demise of Hadoop is probably overblown. It will not suddenly disappear from the enterprise landscape - there are simply too many clients, too much sunk investment for it to vanish into the night. What is not overblown is the fact that Hadoop, like countless technologies before it, is in secular, irreversible decline. There are a number of reasons but
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We approach things differently here at MinIO. When we started in 2014, we questioned everything about the object storage market as we built our product - thinking more like a data company than a storage company. We did it from scratch, using engineering first principles, an extraordinary attention to detail and a relentless pursuit of simplicity. We paid careful attention
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Software isn't usually described as bombproof. Particularly the type of software that is responsible for large analytic jobs or machine learning workloads. The words “finicky”, “complex” or in the case of good marketing “professional grade” (meaning you need years of study and multiple certifications) are more common. Bombproof software, however, is one of the many benefits associated with active open
Read more...This is a guest blog from our friends at Guardant Health. Guardant Health is the world leader in comprehensive liquid biopsy. Oncologists order our blood test to help determine if their advanced cancer patients are eligible for certain drugs that target specific genomic alterations in tumour DNA. Each test produces huge amounts of genomic data that we process into easily
Read more...ToolsLib recently switched to a brand new dashboard. However, behind the scenes, there was another switch happening. We used block based filesystem for underlying storage. However, as we grew, the filesystem was proving difficult to scale. So, we were looking to move from block based storage to an object store system, when we found MinIO. After initial analysis, MinIO looked
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