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The Paradox of the Edge as the Core
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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Storage in the New Year: Our take on the Storage Newsletter 2023 Predictions Panel
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
Read more...The Buyer’s Guide to Software Defined Object Storage
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.
Read more...Cloud-Native Object Storage Architectures: Single-Tenant vs Multi-Tenant
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.
Read more...Erasure Coding 101
Learn how Reed-Solomon erasure coding provides data protection for distributed object storage at scale.
Read more...Best Practices for Deploying MinIO in Virtualized Environments
Lay the best foundation for cloud-native object storage and give developers and their apps the performance they need.
Read more...Simplicity Saves
Don’t let unintended complexity destroy cloud-native efficiency.
Read more...What it Really Means to be Software Defined
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
Read more...The Architect's Guide to the Multi-Cloud
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.
Read more...The Scalability Myth
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
Read more...Three Things You Need at Scale
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:
Read more...Comparing Software Defined Storage with Appliances
Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” [https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-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
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