Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks
Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that leave GPUs underutilized, their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture, and why modern AI infrastructure is converging on S3-compatible object storage.
Episode notes:
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Open Source, AI, and Business Insights with AB Periasamy
Join Corey Quinn and MinIO's co-founder and CEO, AB Periasamy, for a look into MinIO's strategic approach to integrating open-source contributions with its business objectives amidst the AI evolution. They discuss the effect of AI on data management, highlight the critical role of data replication, and advocate for the adoption of cloud-native architecture. Their conversation examines the insights of data replication, mentioning its pivotal role in ensuring efficient data management and storage. Overall, a recurring theme throughout the episode is the importance of simplifying technology to catalyze a broader understanding and utilization that can remain accessible and beneficial to all.
Show Highlights:
(00:00) - Intro
(03:40) - MinIO's evolution and commitment to simplicity and scalability.
(07:25) - The significance of data replication and object storage's versatility.
(12:12) - Challenges and innovations in data backup and disaster recovery.
(15:21) - Launch of MinIO's Enterprise Object Store and its comprehensive features.
(20:50) - Balancing open-source contributions and commercial objectives.
(30:32) - AI's growing influence on data storage strategies and MinIO's role.
(34:33) - The shift towards software-defined data infrastructure driven by AI and cloud technologies.
(39:40) - Resources and the future of tech
(43:31) - Closing thoughts
About A.B Periasamy:
AB Periasamy is the CEO and co-founder of MinIO. One of the leading thinkers and technologists in the open source software movement, AB was a co-founder and CTO of GlusterFS which was acquired by RedHat in 2011. Following the acquisition, he served in the office of the CTO at RedHat prior to founding MinIO in late 2015. AB is an active angel investor and serves on the board of H2O.ai and the Free Software Foundation of India. He earned his BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Annamalai University.
Links:
MinIO: https://min.io/
Kubernetes:https://kubernetes.io/
AWS (Amazon Web Services): https://aws.amazon.com/
Twitter: @abperiasamy
Making Open-Source Multi-Cloud Truly Free with AB Periasamy
AB Periasamy, Co-Founder and CEO of MinIO, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss what it means to be truly open source and the current and future state of multi-cloud. AB explains how MinIO was born from the idea that the world was going to produce a massive amount of data, and what it’s been like to see that come true and continue to be the future outlook. AB and Corey explore why some companies are hesitant to move to cloud, and AB describes why he feels the move is inevitable regardless of cost. AB also reveals how he has helped create a truly free open-source software, and how his partnership with Amazon has been beneficial.
About AB
AB Periasamy is the co-founder and CEO of MinIO, an open source provider of high performance, object storage software. In addition to this role, AB is an active investor and advisor to a wide range of technology companies, from H2O.ai and Manetu where he serves on the board to advisor or investor roles with Humio, Isovalent, Starburst, Yugabyte, Tetrate, Postman, Storj, Procurify, and Helpshift. Successful exits include Gitter.im (Gitlab), Treasure Data (ARM) and Fastor (SMART).
AB co-founded Gluster in 2005 to commoditize scalable storage systems. As CTO, he was the primary architect and strategist for the development of the Gluster file system, a pioneer in software defined storage. After the company was acquired by Red Hat in 2011, AB joined Red Hat’s Office of the CTO. Prior to Gluster, AB was CTO of California Digital Corporation, where his work led to scaling of the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. His work there resulted in the development of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s “Thunder” code, which, at the time was the second fastest in the world.
AB holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
AB is one of the leading proponents and thinkers on the subject of open source software - articulating the difference between the philosophy and business model. An active contributor to a number of open source projects, he is a board member of India's Free Software Foundation.
Links Referenced:
MinIO: https://min.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abperiasamy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abperiasamy/
Email: mailto:ab@min.io
Developing Storage Solutions Before the Rest with AB Periasamay
About AB
AB Periasamy is the co-founder and CEO of MinIO, an open source provider of high performance, object storage software. In addition to this role, AB is an active investor and advisor to a wide range of technology companies, from H2O.ai and Manetu where he serves on the board to advisor or investor roles with Humio, Isovalent, Starburst, Yugabyte, Tetrate, Postman, Storj, Procurify, and Helpshift. Successful exits include Gitter.im (Gitlab), Treasure Data (ARM) and Fastor (SMART).
AB co-founded Gluster in 2005 to commoditize scalable storage systems. As CTO, he was the primary architect and strategist for the development of the Gluster file system, a pioneer in software defined storage. After the company was acquired by Red Hat in 2011, AB joined Red Hat’s Office of the CTO. Prior to Gluster, AB was CTO of California Digital Corporation, where his work led to scaling of the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. His work there resulted in the development of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s “Thunder” code, which, at the time was the second fastest in the world.
AB holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
AB is one of the leading proponents and thinkers on the subject of open source software - articulating the difference between the philosophy and business model. An active contributor to a number of open source projects, he is a board member of India's Free Software Foundation.
Links:
MinIO: https://min.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abperiasamy
MinIO Slack channel: https://minio.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-11qsphhj7-HpmNOaIh14LHGrmndrhocA
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abperiasamy/
Open Source Object Storage For All Of Your Data
Summary
Object storage is quickly becoming the unifying layer for data intensive applications and analytics. Modern, cloud oriented data warehouses and data lakes both rely on the durability and ease of use that it provides. S3 from Amazon has quickly become the de-facto API for interacting with this service, so the team at MinIO have built a production grade, easy to manage storage engine that replicates that interface. In this episode Anand Babu Periasamy shares the origin story for the MinIO platform, the myriad use cases that it supports, and the challenges that they have faced in replicating the functionality of S3. He also explains the technical implementation, innovative design, and broad vision for the project.
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Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Anand Babu Periasamy about MinIO, the neutral, open source, enterprise grade object storage system.
Interview
Introduction
How did you get involved in the area of data management?
Can you explain what MinIO is and its origin story?
What are some of the main use cases that MinIO enables?
How does MinIO compare to other object storage options and what benefits does it provide over other open source platforms?
Your marketing focuses on the utility of MinIO for ML and AI workloads. What benefits does object storage provide as compared to distributed file systems? (e.g. HDFS, GlusterFS, Ceph)
What are some of the challenges that you face in terms of maintaining compatibility with the S3 interface?
What are the constraints and opportunities that are provided by adhering to that API?
Can you describe how MinIO is implemented and the overall system design?
How has that design evolved since you first began working on it?
What assumptions did you have at the outset and how have they been challenged or updated?
What are the axes for scaling that MinIO provides and how does it handle clustering?
Where does it fall on the axes of availability and consistency in the CAP theorem?
One of the useful features that you provide is efficient erasure coding, as well as protection against data corruption. How much overhead do those capabilties incur, in terms of computational efficiency and, in a clustered scenario, storage volume?
For someone who is interested in running MinIO, what is involved in deploying and maintaining an installation of it?
What are the cases where it makes sense to use MinIO in place of a cloud-native object store such as S3 or Google Cloud Storage?
How do you approach project governance and sustainability?
What are some of the most interesting/innovative/unexpected ways that you have seen MinIO used?
What do you have planned for the future of MinIO?
Contact Info
LinkedIn
@abperiasamy on Twitter
abperiasamy on GitHub
Parting Question
From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?
Closing Announcements
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Links
MinIO
GlusterFS
Object Storage
RedHat
Bionics
AWS S3
Ceph
Swift Stack
POSIX
HDFS
Google BigQuery
AzureML
AWS SageMaker
AWS Athena
S3 Select
Azure Blob Store
BackBlaze
Round Robin DNS
Service Mesh
Istio
Envoy
SmartStack
Free Software
RocksDB
TanTan Blog Post
Presto
SparkML
MCAdmin Trace
DTrace
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