MinIO Multi-Cloud Object Storage Delivers Superior Intel Optimized Performance for Customers

MinIO Inc. announced a deeper strategic collaboration with Intel Corp. to deliver performance across mission critical workloads, creating optimized infrastructure options for customers.

Object Storage overview

The solution is a performance, Kubernetes-native, S3-compatible object store. It is optimized for 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors at a granular level, including built-in Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) single instruction multiple data (SIMD) acceleration capabilities. The enhanced performance characteristics have made MinIO an object store for ML frameworks, analytics applications, databases, web applications and other performance-oriented workloads. Its architecture is renowned for its simplicity and scales from terabyte to exabyte easily.

“Intel has been a strategic partner of MinIO since the inception of the company. We continue to expand the partnership and collaborate on R&D, benchmarking and customer success opportunities. We share a technology vision that is informed by machine learning, is multi-cloud, containerized, orchestrated and increasingly edge oriented,” said Garima Kapoor, co-founder and COO, MinIO. “Our work together continues to push the boundaries of innovation and our continued optimization on Intel platforms have resulted in record-setting performance benchmarks.”

“Every enterprise today is a data enterprise, and every enterprise today needs mature multi-cloud experiences. Intel sees this across our portfolio, and is excited to work with MinIO to address the need in this environment,” said Arijit Bandyopadhyay, CTO, enterprise analytics and AI, head of strategy, enterprise and cloud group, Intel. “We’re bullish about our collaboration with MinIO because performance at scale is critical for AI and Augmented Analytics workloads. MinIO, with its software-defined, high performant S3 object storage optimized for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, helps enterprises overcome challenges of large primary storage across a range of use cases from Kubernetes-powered cloud applications to AI/ML/advanced analytics workloads.”

Intel architecture is continually enhanced for AI applications
In addition, the company is a member of the Intel Disruptor Initiative, where Intel collaborates with select cutting-edge technology ISVs and start-ups to accelerate the adoption of modern architectures on Intel platforms for data, augmented analytics, and AI-infused workloads to propel customer success.

The world’s data centers run on Intel platforms for their performance, security, scalable storage, and memory. Since its launch in July 2017, Xeon Scalable processors with built-in accelerators and hardware-enhanced security are ushering in a golden age of SDS where features such as erasure coding, hashing, encryption, and bitrot protection are optimized by advantages such as AVX-512 SIMD instruction sets and Intel DL Boost technology. And removing compute throughput bottlenecks enables companies to use the same enterprise systems for ML, deep learning, and traditional enterprise workloads.

Resources:
MinIO’s and Intel solutions
MinIO Object Storage