Recent developments around MinIO’s licensing model have raised understandable concerns across the community. Many users who adopted MinIO for its open-source promise now face uncertainty, limited access, and potential vendor-dependency — contradicting the very principles that attracted them to the solution.
At Sardina Systems, we believe open source should stay open, accessible, and production-ready. That’s why we’re offering 1 EUR migration for MinIO users to FishOS Ceph, our fully open-source–based and enterprise-supported storage solution.
Why FishOS Ceph? Reliability You Can Trust
FishOS Ceph is built on 100% open-source Ceph, enhanced with operational tooling and backed by Sardina Systems’ engineering and support teams.
You keep the freedom of open-source technology — while gaining the stability, observability, and reliability required in production environments. With FishOS Ceph, you get:
- Pure open-source Ceph, no licensing surprises
- Optimized, production-ready configuration from Day 1
- Enterprise-grade support for operations, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
- Smooth, guided migration delivered by our storage experts
- High-performance object, block, and file storage — unified in one stack
Whether you run MinIO for S3 workloads, backup targets, or application storage, our team ensures a fast and seamless transition to a future-proof, fully open ecosystem.
Ceph vs. MinIO: Understanding the Differences Before You Choose Your Next Storage Platform
Before migrating, many users want clarity on how Ceph and MinIO compare in architecture, scalability, performance, and long-term sustainability. While both solutions support S3-compatible object storage, their design philosophies differ greatly: Ceph is a fully unified storage platform (object, block, and file) with mature operations tooling, while MinIO focuses solely on high-performance S3 workloads. These differences impact not only performance, but also durability, metadata handling, resource usage, and how each system evolves over time.
1 EUR Migration Program Details
- Available to all MinIO users (community or enterprise)
- Includes assessment + migration plan + guided transition
- No FishOS licensing cost for the migration phase
- Fast onboarding — be production-ready within days
The industry has seen once again how quickly licensing models can shift — and how costly that can become for users. The “free open source” model can disappear overnight, leaving organizations exposed. At Sardina Systems, our commitment is simple: transparency and long-term stability.