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MinIO

Data and Memory Foundation for Enterprise AI

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MinIO AIStor is an S3-compatible object storage platform that combines persistent AI agent memory, Apache Iceberg-native tables, and object and file storage in a single data foundation. It addresses the need to consolidate structured and unstructured data for AI training, inference, analytics, and lakehouse workloads, deployable across edge, core, and cloud environments.

The platform includes AIStor Memory for durable agent context, workspaces, secrets, artifacts, and telemetry; AIStor Tables for governed structured data with an Iceberg Catalog; and high-performance object storage for models, checkpoints, and datasets. Access and integration options include S3, S3 Express, MCP, SFTP, Iceberg Catalog, and OpenSharing for Databricks. Security and operations features cover identity and access management, encryption and key management, object immutability, lifecycle policies, replication, versioning, firewall controls, observability, multi-tenancy support, and traffic management.

AIStor is aimed at enterprise teams running AI and analytics workloads at scale, including those using NVIDIA and Databricks infrastructure. It is available as software-defined storage scaling from edge deployments to exabyte-scale clusters, with a free trial offered alongside a downloadable Community Edition.

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