CyberKnight Partners with MinIO to Bring World’s First Hyperscale Object Store for AI to META

(MENAFN- Cyber Knight Technologies) Dubai, UAE — February 12, 2025 – To support enterprise and government organizations across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) with data infrastructure challenges in AI projects, CyberKnight is pleased to announce a strategic reseller partnership with MinIO, a pioneer in high-performance object storage. As a MinIO reseller, CyberKnight will bring MinIO AIStor to companies across the region, enabling them to consolidate all their data into a single, private cloud namespace, while achieving unmatched performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. MinIO is the only storage provider solving a new class of AI-scale problems in on-premises environments.

According to the IDC, the object storage market has been growing at a rate of around 17% annually in recent years. By the end of 2025, the global object storage market was projected to exceed $20 billion. In addition, Gartner has predicted that by 2026, distributed object storage deployments will have tripled over the previous four years with 60% of these deployments being hybrid cloud deployments.

As enterprises accelerate AI, machine learning, big data, and analytics initiatives, they require hyperscaler-grade storage that delivers speed, flexibility, and efficiency without the high costs of public cloud services. MinIO AIStor is purpose-built to address these needs, offering high-performance object storage designed for AI-driven workloads and large-scale data environments. Unlike traditional storage solutions, AIStor is architected using the same principles as hyperscalers, delivering industry-leading performance at a fraction of the cost of public cloud alternatives.

“Our relationship with MinIO equips our partners with cutting-edge, deploy anywhere storage solutions that are fast, scalable, cost-effective and bridge the gap associated with fragmented cloud dynamics in the region including local data privacy, sovereignty and residency requirements. With unique features like multi-cloud interoperability, Kubernetes-native integration, and advanced data management capabilities, together we can optimize storage infrastructure for modern AI-driven workloads.”, commented Wael Jaber, Chief Strategy Officer at CyberKnight.

“As AI-driven workloads become the backbone of modern enterprises, having a high-performance, scalable, and secure object store is critical. CyberKnight extends MinIO’s enterprise-grade object storage to organizations that demand speed, resilience, and flexibility in managing vast datasets for AI and cybersecurity applications. Together, we are enabling businesses to build the future of AI with a foundation that is performant, scalable, and proven.”, added Zayed Abu Alhaj, Regional Head of META at MinIO.

To find out more about modernizing your data infrastructure with AIStor, contact our sales team.

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About MinIO:
MinIO powers AIStor, delivering the foundational object storage layer for the world’s most demanding data applications. AIStor is built for the performance and scale challenges of AI/ML workloads and offers a suite of industry leading features around security, manageability, observability and resiliency. Software-defined and S3 compatible, AIStor runs on commodity hardware and across public, private and edge clouds, offering superior TCO and unparalleled deployment flexibility. AIStor supports S3 over RDMA and NVIDIA’s GPUDirect. It has achieved production throughput in excess of 2.2 TiB/s. AIStor is backed by the SUBNET support experience which features direct to engineer engagement.

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