We are thrilled to announce that RustFS has officially joined the NVIDIA Inception program. This marks a pivotal milestone for us, serving as powerful validation of the progress we’ve made over the past nine months and the growing market recognition of our vision.
RustFS is a high-performance, distributed object storage system built from the ground up in Rust. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it offers full S3 compatibility and serves as a seamless, high-efficiency alternative to MinIO. Since going open-source last July, our momentum has been incredible:
RustFS in the AI Era
Object storage is rapidly becoming the backbone of the AI era. From large-scale model training and AI application development to the persistent memory of AI agents, object storage is everywhere. We believe this represents a massive opportunity for RustFS.
Our vision for AI-native storage involves offloading the network stack (RDMA) and compute-intensive tasks (such as erasure coding, compression, and encryption) directly to the DPU. By doing so, we ensure that data storage is no longer a bottleneck for AI workloads, significantly driving up overall computational efficiency.
Through the NVIDIA Inception program, we will leverage NVIDIA’s cutting-edge platforms and technical resources to accelerate the development and deployment of our AI-centric features.
What’s Next?
Currently, our team is laser-focused on hardening the core functionality and security of RustFS. We are on track to transition RustFS from Alpha to Beta later this month. Looking further ahead, we are planning the official General Availability (GA) release for July.
We currently use GitHub as our primary feedback channel. If you encounter any issues while using RustFS, please let us know by opening an issue on our rustfs/rustfs. We also warmly welcome contributions via pull requests.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to redefine high-performance storage!
