We were talking with a well-respected industry analyst the other day and he challenged us to articulate why Kubernetes is so important to Object Storage. It got us thinking that this was a topic worthy of our time, and yours.
Why Kubernetes Demands More Than Just Stateless Apps
At the most basic level, the value of Kubernetes lies in its
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Legacy systems drain budgets, slow innovation, and block AI progress. This article shows how phased modernization cuts costs, boosts performance, and builds a future-ready data foundation without disruption. Inaction is the real risk.
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While still in its infancy, it’s no secret that enterprise AI adoption is shaking up the entire technology landscape.
Five years ago, CIOs were under immense pressure to figure out their cloud strategy and the answer was, put simply, migrate everything to the public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). Now, CIOs are under even more pressure to figure out their
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This is the story of how an enterprise cloud content platform architected one of the largest and most resilient SmartStore deployments in production using MinIO AIStor and Splunk SmartStore.
One of the world’s largest content platforms faced a serious scaling issue. They were ingesting multiple terabytes of observability data per day, and that footprint was growing by multiple petabytes
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How a global manufacturer is cutting inspection labor by 10x with anomaly detection and edge-native object storage
Overview
On factory floors around the world, visual inspection remains one of the most labor-intensive and error-prone steps in the manufacturing process. At one global consumer goods manufacturer, this challenge is being redefined with AI at the edge. By replacing manual spot checks
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AIStor S3 Express is a high-performance object storage API designed for demanding data lakehouse workloads. Benchmarks show it outperforming AWS S3 Express on LIST operations and large object GETs.
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic represents a unique approach to Agentic AI tooling as compared to many of its competitors. Rather than building a framework (software that calls your code) or a library (software that your code can call), MCP focuses on the protocol needed for different parts of an agent to communicate with each other. This has
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Built a portable Java data pipeline using MinIO's AIStor and Kafka that scales from Mac to Kubernetes. Containerized stack (Kafka, AIStor, Prometheus, Grafana) processes millions of events, preserving raw data for analysis while delivering real-time dashboard summaries.
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In data engineering, open standards are foundational for building interoperable, evolvable, and non-proprietary systems. Apache Iceberg, an open table format, is a prime example. Along with compute, Iceberg brings structure and reliability to data lakes. When coupled with high-performance object storage like MinIO AIStor, Iceberg unlocks new avenues for creating next-generation, high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable architectures.
However, this powerful table
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This post first appeared on The New Stack on April 18th, 2025.
Get a comprehensive summary of the major compute, networking, storage and partnership announcements from NVIDIA’s biggest event of the year.
If you follow the tech news, you have read a lot about NVIDIA and its graphics processing units (GPUs). However, it would be incorrect to conclude that
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Apache Iceberg has significantly reshaped how organizations manage and interact with massive structured analytical datasets inside object storage. It brings database-like reliability and powerful features such as ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel. Although these features are commonly emphasized, the Iceberg Catalog API is what makes these tables accessible.
The Iceberg Catalog API is a centralized interface for managing
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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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In the previous blog posts of this series, we discussed the user-level and admin-level functions of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for MinIO AIStor. In the first blog, we learned how to review the bucket’s contents, analyze objects, and tag them for future processing. In the second blog, we also learned how to use admin commands and get
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In the previous blog of this series, we discussed the basic user-level functions of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for MinIO AIStor. We learned how to review a bucket’s contents, analyze objects, and tag them for future processing using human-language commands and simply chatting with the cluster via an LLM such as Anthropic Claude.
In this blog, we’
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GenAI is entering the agentic phase, with software agents collaborating with humans and other agents to reason and achieve complex goals. Agents are already demonstrating incredible intelligence and are very helpful with question answering, but as with humans, they need the ability to discover and access software applications and other services to actually perform useful work. The creators of such
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Want real-time analytics and blazing-fast performance? Learn how to build a high-speed, on-prem pipeline with Materialize and MinIO AIStor—faster than S3, high thoughput, and built for AI. Includes a full tutorial to get you up and running locally.
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Tl;dr: We train a small LLM to become good at reasoning with reinforcement learning (similar to the process that led to Deepseek R1) all against AIStor AIHub, an on-premises model repository. Based on the great GRPO demo by will brown.
Motivation:
A growing requirement for teams is the need for an organized, secure, "single source of truth"
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In today’s AI-driven enterprise landscape, resource optimization has evolved from a desirable goal into an operational imperative. As organizations scale their artificial intelligence initiatives to meet rising demands for innovation, the efficient orchestration of compute resources directly shapes operational performance and model precision. The forthcoming integration of NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) with MinIO AIStor is a co-engineered solution slated
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The Arm architecture is revolutionizing the hyperscale cloud, propelled by its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) advantages—lower power consumption and reduced cooling requirements—that enable sustainable, high-performance computing at scale. Industry leaders like AWS, Azure, and GCP are embracing Arm to drive their latest compute instances for AI training, harnessing its efficiency to meet the demands of data-intensive workloads.
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