A cheap backup service needed cheaper hardware. Backblaze built its own, published the design, and found that the same economics could serve everyone from music archivists to AI clouds.
Tigris started by promising developers an entire data platform. Then it chose one unfashionable primitive - the object-storage bucket - and discovered that AI had made boring infrastructure interesting again.
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage company building the data layer for AI. Its software-defined storage runs on commodity hardware in private clouds, on-prem, and at the edge, and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 to power analytics, ML training, and exascale AI workloads.