KubeCon24: MinIO Object Store Equipped with Enterprise Features

For this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU, being held in Paris this week,  object storage provider MinIO has launched the MinIO Enterprise Object Store, a commercial product designed to help organizations manage exabyte-scale amounts of data used for AI and other data-intensive workloads.

You can check it out at booth E9 on the floor of KubeCon, an event held by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

This new product builds on the MinIO open source object store, though the MinIO Enterprise Object Store is a commercial, offering additional features not found in the open source code.

The open source software is a favorite among many Kubernetes users, who typically wrangle very large sets of storage for apps and data, including — and increasingly so — those supporting large AI workloads.

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“The MinIO Enterprise Object Store adds significant value for our commercial customers and enables them to more easily address the challenges associated with billions of objects, hundreds of thousands of cryptographic operations per object per second or querying an exabyte scale namespace,” said AB Perisamy, co-founder and CEO at MinIO, in a statement.

The additional features aim to smooth the experience of managing large data stores. The package includes:

• A catalog to manage object storage namespace and facilitate metadata search. Users can index, organize and search objects through a GraphQL interface.
• A data firewall provides bucket and object-level rule creation to protect AWS S3 and SFTP traffic, and includes TLS termination, load balancing, access control and QOS capabilities.
• A key management server is an isolated enclave that can store billions of cryptographic keys and execute hundreds of thousands of cryptographic operations per second. It supports multitenancy.
• A cache that uses server DRAM memory to run a distributed shared cache for ultra-high performance workloads.
• Observability, a suite is a complete, data infrastructure-centric collection of metrics, audit logs, error logs and traces. It covers system components (OS, CPU, memory, drives, network) across every instance, cluster and erasure code set.
• An Enterprise Console that roles all these features under a single pane of glass for easy management.

Those wishing to test this platform can obtain a time-limited license key from the download page. Existing users of commercially-supported MinIO can upgrade to these new features at no additional, as per the usual TB-per-month pricing.