September 11, 2025 — Leads & Copy — MinIO has announced a new line of AIStor-powered pod solutions designed for private cloud modernization. These solutions, available exclusively through Arrow Electronics, integrate exascale AIStor software with hardware from Supermicro and others to simplify private cloud AI infrastructure.
MinIO AIStor object store software is pre-integrated as AIStor-powered pod solutions, starting with certified AIStor on Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI). This combines the convenience of appliance-oriented purchasing with the power and flexibility of the cloud operating model. MinIO plans to introduce more AIStor-powered pods using additional storage vendor hardware in the future.
The first AIStor-powered pod solutions will pre-integrate Supermicro hardware, with starter four-node pods delivering ~1.1 PiB of usable capacity. Each pod includes hardened, certified AIStor on Supermicro Hyper 1U servers engineered for performance and reliability. Enterprises can purchase, deploy, and scale AIStor pods via hardened Supermicro nodes, eliminating separate hardware and software negotiations, avoiding lock-in, and reducing operational risk.
According to Mahesh Patel, Chief Business Officer, MinIO, AIStor pods deliver the simplicity of the appliance purchasing model paired with full cloud-operating model flexibility, enabling customers to consolidate their data onto a modern, AI-ready private cloud infrastructure.
Michael McNerney, senior vice president of Marketing and Network Security, Supermicro, said that the pre-integrated and pre-validated AIStor on Supermicro servers provide a simplified deployment experience and can accelerate time-to-value for customers.
Steve McDowell, Chief Analyst at NAND Research, notes that pre-integrated pod solutions like these from MinIO align with the broader industry shift of bringing hyperscaler-style efficiency and scale into enterprise private clouds.
Tucker Hallowell, Inkhouse, minio@inkhouse.com
Source: MinIO