MinIO Debuts Academy With AI Partner Enablement

MinIO recently launched its MinIO Academy, a centralized education portal designed for IT professionals to hone their skills through training that focuses on mastering MinIO AIStor, a scalable object store foundational to data-intensive GenAI, agentic AI, and analytics workloads.

Specialized training and content aims to bring channel partners expert-led resources

The academy arrives at a time when AI adoption has significantly proliferated throughout the channel and the IT world as a whole. The demand for skilled professionals who can manage object storage technology has increased, widening an already vast skills gap.

MinIO Academy addresses this challenge with specialized training and educational content designed for administrators, developers, and data engineers working with petabyte and exabyte namespaces. It offers AIStor users and partners a centralized education hub that brings together training resources, documentation, and hands-on labs in one location, featuring role-specific content.

“The explosion of unstructured data and growing prevalence of AI across the enterprise has brought us to a pivotal moment in managing AI data infrastructure: object storage is no longer optional, it’s foundational,” said AB Periasamy, co-founder and co-CEO, MinIO. “With more than two billion downloads worldwide, MinIO is the definitive enterprise object store authority. MinIO Academy is designed to share our deep knowledge and expertise with IT professionals, equipping them with the advanced skills required to thrive in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.”

Full Academy includes options for end users and channel partners

The MinIO Academy offers three learning programs:

• Quick Start (Free): This free program enables users to learn the fundamentals of AIStor fast and experiment with confidence at their own pace through onboarding videos, tutorials, and labs.
  • The program includes a 60-day AIStor trial offer with three sections:
    • AIStor Deployment and Administration to learn installation and management.
    • AIStor for Developers includes instructions on how to build intelligent, storage-driven applications.
    • AI and AIStor for building and training models, designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, and managing AI workloads using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Enterprise (Paid subscription): Equips teams with in-depth production-grade knowledge to ensure AIStor deployments are secure, scalable, and successful via the MinIO Paid Learning Subscription. This program offers role-based learning paths for administrators, developers, and data engineers, as well as specialized learning tracks in Kubernetes, security, and troubleshooting, and an AI Expert learning track.
  • It also includes a voucher for the MinIO Certified Administrator program exam, which validates the essential skills required to deploy, secure, and scale a production MinIO AIStor deployment.
• Partner Enablement (For Authorized MinIO Partners): This program is tailored to the educational needs of MinIO Partners, providing education on positioning, sizing, architecting, and deploying AIStor solutions to accelerate go-to-market readiness and deepen customer engagement. Accredited MinIO resellers, integrators, technology partners, and ISVs can benefit from this program to ensure they have the necessary knowledge to integrate and implement MinIO AIStor effectively.

The MinIO Academy is available immediately to meet educational needs.

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