Cloud Native Object Storage Server Available From Minio

Minio, Inc. announced the general availability of its distributed object storage server built for cloud applications and DevOps.

The solution enables applications to manage massive quantities of unstructured data, and enables cloud and SaaS application developers to adopt emerging cloud hosting providers such as Digital Ocean, Packet and Hyper.sh with Amazon S3 like capabilities.

Minio’s object storage server is production ready, with features such as erasure code, bitrot detection and lambda notification, and has grown in popularity amongst the Docker, Mesos and Kubernetes communities due its cloud native architecture.

“Minio is a valued partner of Mesosphere and a leading voice on the topic of storage in the DC/OS community,” said Florian Leibert, CEO, Mesosphere, Inc. “With its future-proof and developer-friendly distributed object storage offering, Minio solves a real problem for our joint customers, and this latest release continues their history of innovation.”

Completing the Storage Stack
Released under Apache v2.0 and written in Go, Minio is enabling developers to store unstructured data on any cloud infrastructure both public and private.

Major product features include:

Amazon S3 compatibility: Minio supports both Amazon S3 v2 and v4 APIs. This compatibility allows applications to freely move between Amazon AWS and other cloud providers.
Data protection: Minio withstands failure up to half the number of servers and drives using erasure-code and bitrot protection capabilities.
Lambda functions: Minio supports Amazon AWS compatible lambda functions to perform useful actions like thumbnail generation, metadata extraction and virus scanning. Notifications are supported through various popular frameworks (AMQP, Elasticsearch, Redis, NATS, WebHooks, Kafka and Postgres) and natively over HTTP long-polling.

Additionally, Minio provides replication and auto-expiry features.

Developer Community Adoption
Minio’s community has grown to 125+ code contributors, 5K+ GitHub stars and more than 750 members on the Gitter/Slack channel. Much of the community adoption has come from the US and Europe, followed by Japan. Minio is deployed as a Docker container and there are over 400,000 Docker pulls in the last three months alone.

“If IDC predictions for 2020 were to come true, 44ZB of data will need to be stored,” said Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founder and CEO, Minio. “This is a huge opportunity for free software and open source to finally disrupt the storage industry. By enabling applications to understand objects, like videos and media, using deep learning, we will be able to justify the necessary infrastructure investments. At Minio, we have started a new project, code named ‘X’, to understand video and media content in real-time using deep learning.”

Minio is available and can be downloaded.

Comments

We met last December the Minio team and really realized that something is happening. This feeling was and is supported by a strong background of the team + the investors list + the Gluster story (and exit) + an impressive work done since the inception of the project illustrated by tons of downloads and interests by the DevOps community around Mesos, Kubernetes and Docker.

In a recent blog post, I even used the words "Minio Tsunami is coming" as I believe they will change the storage landscape pretty soon forcing the competition to adapt and change their business model, their features list... and guess what, it's already the case as some competitors have adopted and used some tools developed by Minio.

Remember Gluster, the adoption by the community was massive. It's even more funny when we saw the competition got inspired by Minio for a few quarters already trying to mimic their approach.

In term of competition in this open source object storage space, except Ceph for its popularity and proven capabilities, no other serious product exists or on paper only.

The second product iteration code named 'X' will be interesting as well, for video and media content.

It seems that a bigger 'Gluster Wave' will hit the planet in 2017 for the benefits of users, just three years after the launch of the project.

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