Network Appliance’s acquisition of Spinnaker is the precursor to the mainstream adoption of distributed file systems in 2004 and 2005 as an alternative to single-file system architectures. At first ...

The rapid and unabated growth of so-called "unstructured" data has led research firm Gartner to establish a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. Such systems seek to ...

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 ...

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

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Hey, I'm not exactly sure if this is the right place to put this, but since there is no 'filesystem' forum, maybe it fits here. (otherwise please suggest a place) I was just evaluating my future ...

Big-data platform provider WekaIO Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $135 million late-stage funding round led by Generation Investment Management, doubling its valuation in the process. A host ...

Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS).

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...