MinIO Software Defined Storage is an open-source, high-performance object storage solution built for cloud-native environments like Kubernetes, containers, and microservices. Designed to handle unstructured data—such as images, videos, logs, machine learning models, and backups—it offers scalability and portability across diverse infrastructures.

MinIO provides a modern, scalable, and resilient object storage platform that works across any infrastructure. Its open-source nature supports flexibility and cost control, making it well suited for AI, analytics, and enterprise workloads where performance and reliability matter.

Key Features of MinIO Software Defined Storage:

• Cloud Portability: Deploy on-premises, Kubernetes, or hybrid environments
• Performance at Scale: Optimized for high-throughput workloads like AI/ML, analytics, backups, and videos.
• Cost-Efficient: Runs on commodity hardware without vendor lock-in.
• Resilience: Protects data across nodes using erasure coding and bitrot detection.

Common Use Cases

• AI/ML inference, data analytics
• Video surveillance storage, disaster recovery
• Enterprise backup and archiving, edge storage.

• MinIO SDS on a Single Node Brief