Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least - that you are a software company. This is obviously problematic for appliance vendors. Try as
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The regulatory landscape is evolving rapidly, and the upcoming Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in Europe is a testament to this dynamic change. We have multiple European banking customers and each one is approaching the problem from a slightly different angle with one exception - almost all of them are using modern object storage as the foundational layer. For IT
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The modern enterprise defines itself by its data. This requires a data infrastructure for AI/ML as well as a data infrastructure that is the foundation for a Modern Datalake capable of supporting business intelligence, data analytics, and data science. This is true if they are behind, getting started or using AI for advanced insights. For the foreseeable future, this
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It is hard to believe that it was 13 years ago that Marc Andressen penned his famous blog entitled “Software is Eating the World.” In it he spoke of the disruption that modern software organizations were inflicting on traditional businesses. Thirteen years later, even in the face of stratospheric valuations for Nvidia, software continues to eat the world. The evidence
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In the Harvard Business Review's recent How Companies Think About Data, Leandro DalleMule and Thomas H. Davenport present "a framework for building a robust data strategy that can be applied across industries and levels of data maturity." The framework draws on their experience at AIG, a global insurance company where Mr. DalleMulle is CDO, combined with
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We live in a cloud-native world where edge architecture must be consistent with cloud architecture, and where data can be retrieved with the same API call regardless of where it lives.
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Every year, those in the storage industry look forward to Philippe Nicolas’s Storage Newsletter’s Predictions of Storage Vendors for trends and new ideas in the storage space. With input from most of the major players in the industry, it is a great barometer of not just where storage is going, but also how those in the know are
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Creating a framework for high-performance, cloud-native object storage is mission-critical in the modern enterprise. Take a look at The Buyer’s Guide to Software Defined #ObjectStorage to understand the key capabilities.
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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 Reed-Solomon erasure coding provides data protection for distributed object storage at scale.
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Lay the best foundation for cloud-native object storage and give developers and their apps the performance they need.
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Don’t let unintended complexity destroy cloud-native efficiency.
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This post first appeared in the Container Journal [https://containerjournal.com/features/what-it-means-to-be-truly-software-defined/] . The term “software-defined storage” is widely misunderstood by the vendor community. While analysts, both industry and financial, know that software-defined is both the present and future of the storage industry, customers who are unable to make the distinction may find themselves with a hardware- or appliance-based solution
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The line between hybrid cloud and multicloud is blurry at this point. The hybrid cloud is certainly more expansive in its definition (public, on-prem, edge). The multi-cloud generally refers to multiple public cloud. What makes it blurry is that the cloud is a mentality - not a physical location. As a result, we see the terms used interchangeably these days.
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Lots of object storage companies like to talk about scalability while tossing around terms like exabytes and “infinite.” Unfortunately, many of the terms used to describe scalability make grandiose and misleading promises that don’t help enterprises build an effective storage platform. Claims made around the simplest use case, static archival data, aren’t translatable to the entirety of use
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MinIO was designed in the same fashion that the hyper-scalers were – with simple building blocks that limit failure domains but can grow infinitely. Still there are some features that you really need to have in order to go galactic in size. They are: 1. Server Side Replication: With MinIO’s server side replication capabilities, organizations can create active-active replication [https:
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