MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by Aurornis on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:14PM (#46137103)

> For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see [MinIO AIStor]

Naming the product “AIStor” is one of the most blatant forced AI branding pivots I’ve seen.

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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by positisop on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:17PM (#46137152)

Raising 100 mil at 1 B valuation and then trying for an exit is a bitch!

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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by evil-olive on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:47PM (#46137546)

for maximum performance with MinIO AIStor, make sure to use one of Seagate's "AI hard drives":

https://www.seagate.com/products/video-analytics/skyhawk-ai-...

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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by bityard on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:53PM (#46137652)

And the naming conflicts with NVidia's AIStore (https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore). The two products are extremely similar. I don't know which came first, but Minio is going to want to do another pivot very soon if they want to survive. I doubt they have the resources to stand up to NVidia's army of extremely well-paid IP lawyers.

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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by Natfan on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:59PM (#46140785)

this is no different than grok vs groq imo. aistor and aistore are different names, even if they're pronounced similarly.

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