What is MinIO?
MinIO AIStor is a software-defined object storage solution designed to handle the demands of AI and large-scale data infrastructure. It offers exceptional performance, scalability, and robust security features for any cloud environment, including public, private, and edge deployments.
AIStor allows enterprises to consolidate data into a single, private cloud namespace, achieving speeds exceeding 2.2 TiB/s. It emphasizes simplicity, security, and cost-effectiveness, offering significant savings compared to public cloud providers and appliance vendors. MinIO is highly compatible with the S3 API and integrates seamlessly with a broad range of AI and data processing technologies.
Features
- Hyper-Performant: Production throughput exceeding 2.2 TiB/s.
- Software Defined: Runs on any commodity hardware, from ARM to x86.
- Exascale: Supports active-active, multi-site replication and multi-rack deployments for a single namespace.
- Security: State-of-the-art encryption, granular object-level encryption, KMS, and S3 aware firewall.
- Enterprise Grade: Comprehensive features including IAM, ILM, load balancing, caching, and observability.
- Object Native: Optimized for object storage, driving innovation in the field.
- S3 Compatibility: Highly compatible with the S3 API.
- Cost-Effective: Offers significant savings compared to public cloud and appliance vendors.
Use Cases
- AI Storage
- HDFS Migration
- Modern Datalakes
- Hybrid Cloud Data Infrastructure
- Large-Scale Data Storage
- Data Backup and Recovery
- Application Data Storage
FAQs
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Is MinIO offering a hosted service or software?
MinIO sells a commercial license to its software-defined storage product, which includes premium, direct-to-engineer support through the SUBNET portal. MinIO does not operate a hosted object storage service. -
What hardware do you recommend for MinIO?
For production workloads, MinIO recommends specific capacity and performance configurations from Supermicro, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and Western Digital. MinIO can also run on bare metal options like Equinix Metal or specific hardware profiles in the public cloud. -
What is MinIO's commitment to Open Source?
MinIO believes in the philosophy of Open Source and collaborative development. The MinIO Object Store is licensed under Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3). -
Does MinIO charge for erasure-code parity data as part of my MinIO usage?
No, MinIO only includes the actual amount of data stored in the system, excluding any redundant data such as erasure-code parity data. -
What is the Panic button?
The Panic Button is a feature that will instantaneously alert every MinIO engineer across the globe to a customer’s production issue, mobilizing the entire organization to solve the problem.
