Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Some strange changes and behaviors at MinIO
With the recent news and commercial attitude of the MinIO management team, I have some serious doubt on their capability to sign some deals in some domains. We'll see but I'm pretty sure that several people like me share this opinion. We'll learn more about the reason behind the departure of Jonathan Symonds as he really created the marketing vehicle for the company for several years and we'll see how the new guys seeing, some light in the house, will do. On this I have real doubt as well. Erik Freiberg, the CMO, didn't stay a long time as each of his last 4 jobs and I will see how he will understand this market segment. Regarding Mahesh Patel, the new CBO, he's a financial guy since 2000 so doing strategy is a new game. MinIO has changed their positioning pretty often, is it too often, we don't know yet, but it gives a feeling of fragility and hesitation. It's true their product is a good fit for various use cases. They ignore AI/ML preferring Cloud Native, Container and Kubernetes, following classic enterprise approaches and now they wish to surf on the AI/ML wave. They ignored Nvidia GPUDirect Storage and now they announced they support it... it starts to be a joke... After changing their positioning, they changed now the team with strange commercial behaviors, what will be the next step?
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