A distributed file system (DFS) is a single file system spread across several physical computer nodes, appearing to the user as a centralized file system regardless of where or how the data is stored.

For years, cloud computing was synonymous with centralization. That era is over. Enter: the distributed cloud.

Basically, IPFS is a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed system for storing, accessing and sharing files, websites, applications and data.

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 ...

Cohesity, a leader in next-gen data management, announced today that it has been named a Visionary in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File ...

The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here ...