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MinIO Welcomes Ran Kurup as Chief Corporate Development Officer

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MinIO Welcomes Ran Kurup as Chief Corporate Development Officer

MinIO has appointed Ran Kurup as its new Chief Corporate Development Officer, marking the start of the company’s next phase of strategic growth in the AI infrastructure era. Kurup joins MinIO after two decades at Intel, including nine years at Intel Capital, where he led global portfolio development and worked closely with high-growth technology companies across AI, data infrastructure,

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Major global electric utility provider delivers modern smart meter data lakehouse powered by AIStor

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Major global electric utility provider delivers modern smart meter data lakehouse powered by AIStor

Our customer, a large electric utility company with millions of users, was faced with challenges common to utility and energy companies around the world: how to manage ever-growing energy demands, while diversifying energy supply to incorporate renewable and sustainable sources. A key element of their strategy is a smart metering initiative - bringing the power of technology and AI to

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A Global Telecommunications Leader and MinIO AIStor: Powering the Next Generation of Data Lakehouse for Analytics and AI

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A Global Telecommunications Leader and MinIO AIStor: Powering the Next Generation of Data Lakehouse for Analytics and AI

1. Executive Summary Our customer, a global telecommunications leader, established a Data Platform team to transform how data improved customer experiences and business operations. Faced with ballooning data growth and legacy storage constraints, they replaced aging legacy data storage systems with a high-performance, cloud-native data lakehouse, built on MinIO’s AIStor. The result: a scalable, cost-efficient foundation ready for AI,

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Major defense contractor relies on AIStor for portable data lakehouse and S3 hybrid cloud available under any conditions

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Major defense contractor relies on AIStor for portable data lakehouse and S3 hybrid cloud available under any conditions

A major US-based defense contractor needed to create an internal solution that allowed for the secure sharing of critical information with other allies and sensitive actors – a portable data lakehouse that could be scaled up and down on demand and deployed anywhere in the world, across a wide variety of deployment options and in challenging network environments.  Environment: Mission-critical applications

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How MinIO AIStor helped transform a global digital payments provider’s S3 private cloud

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How MinIO AIStor helped transform a global digital payments provider’s S3 private cloud

This global digital payments provider has provided online payment systems for nearly 30 years, seeing its highest rates of growth over the past ten years.  Its user base expanded from over 150 million to more than 400 million customers worldwide which boosted its total payment volume from $200 billion to more than $1.5 trillion.  This led to their data

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Financial Institution Reduces Fraud Risk using AI built on AIStor Data Lakehouse

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Financial Institution Reduces Fraud Risk using AI built on AIStor Data Lakehouse

1. Executive Summary A leading national payment and financial infrastructure provider transformed its analytics and fraud detection capabilities by migrating from a legacy Hadoop system to a modern data lakehouse powered by MinIO AIStor and Trino on Kubernetes. The shift delivered a 65% reduction in fraud model runtime, a fivefold increase in workload capacity, and significant cost savings by replacing

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Revolutionizing Life Sciences with AI and a Hybrid-Cloud Data Lakehouse

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Revolutionizing Life Sciences with AI and a Hybrid-Cloud Data Lakehouse

In the rapidly evolving TechBio industry, one innovative life sciences company puts technology at the forefront of its approach to drug discovery and experimentation. They operate one of the fastest privately owned supercomputers in the pharmaceutical sector, enabling unprecedented computational scale in biological research. Powered by a bespoke and AI-driven scientific operating system, their mission is to transform and accelerate

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Introducing MinIO AIStor on Supermicro: Pre-Integrated Pods for Private Cloud AI

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Introducing MinIO AIStor on Supermicro: Pre-Integrated Pods for Private Cloud AI

At MinIO, we believe the cloud operating model and a fully software-defined approach across every layer of the stack is the only path to enterprise agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. Building for "software-defined everything" has guided us from the start, with the goal of keeping modern IT environments as flexible and dynamic as the businesses they serve. But

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Hadoop HDFS's Logical Successor

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Hadoop HDFS's Logical Successor

The "big data king" that enterprises spent billions on is dying. Not from lack of trying, but because cloud-native alternatives now beat it at its own game. AIStor is faster and cheaper than HDFS. The revolution is happening in quarters, not decades.

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