Why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious also, but there is next to nothing in terms of details (uses cases and such) on their site!
We have stand alone server now which includes currently three modes of operation
-- memory
-- filesystem
-- donut(experimental)
A small video to help you download and start a memory mode - https://asciinema.org/a/21575
Client tools and libraries are ready to be used by community to give us feedback on.
- https://github.com/minio/mc - Minio client collection of tools like `ls`, `cp`, `sync`, `cat`
- https://github.com/minio/minio-go - Golang
- https://github.com/minio/minio-js - Nodejs
- https://github.com/minio/minio-java - Java
We call it "do not delete" in short donut.
https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/pkg/storage/donut
It is currently experimental, but a distributed version is a work in progress.