MinIO Enterprise Object Store with Features Designed for Exascale Data Infrastructure

MinIO, Inc. announced the Enterprise Object Store.

This product facilitates the creation and management of exabyte-scale data infrastructure for commercial customers. Building on the company’s technical object storage, it is designed for the performance and scale challenges introduced by massive AI workloads.

This product is available to new and existing firm’s customers. It carries a commercial license.

“The data infrastructure demands for AI are requiring enterprises to architect their systems for 10s of exabytes while delivering consistently high-performance and operational simplicity,” said AB Perisamy, co-founder and CEO. “The 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. The defining feature of AI workloads is extraordinary scale and delivering performance at that scale is beyond the capability of most existing applications.”

Features available in the Enterprise Object Store include:

Enterprise Catalog screenshot
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• Catalog: The Enterprise Catalog feature solves the problem of object storage namespace and metadata search. With the catalog feature, operators can index, organize and search a vast number of objects using the familiar and fast GraphQL interface. It allows administrators to know exactly what is going on with their data for any number of governance, audit, compliance or related tasks – all in real-time.

Entreprise Data Firewall screenshot
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• Data Firewall: Unlike traditional firewalls which are IP-based or application-oriented, the Enterprise Data Firewall is purpose-built for data and is aware of the AWS S3 trafic and SFTP traffic. Designed to protect the data layer even at billions of objects, it facilitates bucket and object-level rule creation. This includes TLS termination, load balancing, access control and QOS capabilities.

• Key management server: The Enterprise Key Management Server is a highly available, operationally simple, KMS implementation optimized for massive data infrastructure. The KMS solves the specific performance, availability, fault-tolerance and security challenges associated with storing billions of cryptographic keys and hundreds of thousands of cryptographic operations per seconds. It supports multi-tenancy, enabling each tenant to be assigned its own enclave completely independent and isolated from all other enclaves on the KMS cluster.

• Cache: The Enterprise Cache feature operates as a caching service that uses server DRAM memory to create a distributed shared cache for high AI performance workloads. Purpose-built for the company’s object storage, cache will work once enabled or configured, there is nothing required of the application.

Enterprise Observability screenshot
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• Observability: Enterprise Observability suite is a complete, data infrastructure-centric collection of metrics, audit logs, error logs and traces. This allows administrators to view all system components (OS, CPU, memory, drives, network) across every instance, cluster and erasure code set. Designed expressly for the Day 2 challenges associated with thousands of drives, NICs and CPUs, the observability suite facilitates rapid issue identification and root cause analysis.

Enterprise Console screenshot
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• Enterprise Console: The Enterprise Console serves as a single pane of glass for all the organization’s instances of MinIO including public clouds, private clouds, edge and colo instances as well as the launch point for the suite of enterprise features. This enables enterprise customers to manage (deploy, configure, upgrade and monitor) large-scale, technologically and geographically diverse storage infrastructure from a single, intuitive location.

For new customers wishing to evaluate the Enterprise offerings, a time-limited license key can be obtained from the download page for testing. There is no additional charge for the Enterprise features, they are included in the per TB/month pricing.

Resources:
Blog: The Enterprise Object Storage Feature Set   
Blog: A Single Pane of Glass – The Enterprise Global Console     
Blog: MinIO Enterprise Cache: A Distributed DRAM Cache for Ultra-Performance    
Blog: Powerful Perspective: Introducing MinIO Enterprise Object Store Observability   
Blog: Searching and Indexing Namespace and Metadata with MinIO Enterprise Object Store Catalog    
Blog: Solving Scale in Security: the MinIO Enterprise Object Store Key Management Server    
Blog: A Firewall Designed for Data: The MinIO Enterprise Object Store Firewall