Stop Giving Your Data to Vendors

The way organizations manage their data infrastructure is undergoing a significant shift. More and more companies are recognizing the advantages of decoupling storage and compute, which leads to better performance, cost savings, and scalability. This trend is driven by the increasing complexity of AI and ML workloads, which require flexible,…

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ASF Contributors Help ASF Software Remain Functional and Reliable for Users

Bug fixes are crucial to open source projects because they enhance the stability, and overall performance of the software. Timely bug fixes also help prevent security vulnerabilities from being exploited, while improving user trust and encouraging further contributions to the project.  This #FirstASFContribution blog post showcases ASF contributors who have…

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Databases on Object Storage – the New Normal

When you think about object storage workloads and storage types - databases are increasingly a core workload. The changes are driven by two forces: the availability of high performance object storage and the explosive growth of data and specifically its associated metadata.Because of these two forces, almost every major database…

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Microblink: Repatriating Compute and Storage with MinIO

Microblink is an AI company specializing in image detection. They got their start in the identity space with products like BlinkID, BlinkID Verify, and BlinkCard. Most recently, their image detection capabilities have led to products that can process other types of images. For example, product detection can be performed on…

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RabbitMQ 4.0: New Quorum Queue Features

RabbitMQ 4.0 (currently in beta) includes new quorum queue features: message priorities consumer priorities combined with Single Active Consumer default delivery limit is now 20 (breaking change!) faster recovery of long queues Message Priorities​ Support for message priorities has been probably the most demanded quorum queue feature, mostly requested by…

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Benchmarking MinIO Enterprise Object Store with WARP and Perf test

Modern applications such as AI/ML, advanced analytics and databases require high-performance object storage. MinIO Enterprise Object Store’s combination of scalability and high-performance puts every workload, no matter how demanding, within reach. Our published benchmarks demonstrate that MinIO Enterprise Object Storage is the fastest object storage available, but it can only…

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