Minio today
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 now production
ready, with major 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 of
Mesosphere. "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
widely deployed as a Docker container and there are over 400K Docker
pulls in the last three months alone.
"If
IDC predictions for 2020 were to come true, 44 zetabytes of data will
need to be stored," said Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founder and CEO of
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."
Product Information and Availability
Minio is generally available and can be downloaded at https://minio.io/downloads. For additional information on Minio, please visit https://minio.io.