More than 15M instances of MinIO run on the planet much more than any object storage can promote with just a dozen of references. This is the power of open source and I invite you to listen to the French podcast we record a few days ago about open source and its role in storage.
As said multiple times, MinIO Tsunami is here.
The company has made a real shift to modern applications infrastructure fueling Kubernetes-based environments and seen as a key component. Players like VMware recognized this MinIO role. Historically considered as the preferred choice for on-premise S3 storage, MinIO promotes itself for a few quarters as the storage component for a successful hybrid cloud environment. As said, the team has been recognized by VMware as a key partner for its adoption connected via its vSAN Data Persistence platform. The name vSAN here is terrible as a SAN is historically associated with block devices. MinIO is finally synonym of S3 for VMware like S3 for EC2 in AWS.
The second string progress from MinIO is the UI with the console. You can download it from here.
To accelerate its enterprise adoption the company leverages Subnet for commercial, contract, billing and support. When software and service reach $1.2M, a site license is started and is no more charged, fee stops finally. Just to precise this fee is a per year amount started at 10PB for standard level or 5PB for enterprise level.
The next topic MinIO chose to present was around resiliency to strengthen its users considerations for data persistence. The offers today:
- server to server bucket replication in active/active or active/passive mode,
- object locking to be beyond WORM,
- and object lifecycle management with transparent tiering.
Strong as an object storage product, adopted by tons of partners as their S3 engine like Cisco, Datera, Humio, iXsystems, MapR now owned by HPE, McKesson, Nutanix, Pavilion Data Systems, Pivotal, Portworx, Qumulo, Robin.IO, Splunk and Ugloo to name a few, MinIO is also critical for VMware, Ezmeral (Ez what?) and soon OpenShift and goes beyond its original on-premise mission. It is available almost everywhere and I invite you to try on your machine, even your Raspberry Pi, on your server or in the cloud like AWS, Azure or GCP.
MinIO has become the universal storage service wherever you elect and run your applications.
So the question for 2021 is who will acquire the company? Dell, HPE, IBM, Red Hat or VMware or even one of the cloud giants. But I think no discussion can start below $500M (!!) which represents a 20+ multiple from its $23.3M VC money.
0 commentaires:
Post a Comment