IBM today plans to release a distributed file-system technology that it said will provide storage management capabilities across storage-area networks (SAN) with disk arrays and servers from ...

Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

Gartner has established a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage due to the rapid growth of unstructured data. Here are the vendors that are leading the way.

There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed ...

Technical Terms Distributed File System: A storage architecture where data is stored across a network of multiple servers to improve performance and fault tolerance.

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant.

The API is compatible with File System Specification, a standard Python library intended to abstract and unify access to various file system backends.

The strengths of NTFS are often taken for granted. But Windows 2000 exposes new features hidden in the humble file system.

The distributed file system can reach a 6.6 TiB/s aggregate read throughput when used in a 180-node cluster, achieving a 3.66 TiB/min throughput on the GraySort benchmark (in a 25-node cluster).