Almost lost in the clamor over Sun Microsystems Inc.’s expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was a small acquisition that will bolster Sun’s HPC storage offerings. Sun agreed to ...

Gartner Inc. has published its first ever “Magic Quadrant” for distributed file systems and object storage, the software and hardware that’s intended to enable companies to deal with the rapid growth ...

Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and its latest ...

What just happened? In response to Western organizations calling it "shady and untrustworthy," DeepSeek launched "Open Source Week." During last week's event, the company released several repositories ...

Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

August 21, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Cloud Comments Off on Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance There is much value in separating storage from compute, ...

File management software maker Peer Software plans to launch Linux file server compatibility this summer, along with enhanced artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based file access anomaly ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...