IBM is shipping a set of software and hardware that's designed to make multivendor storage-area networks look like local file systems to servers, although the technology initially supports only ...

The company develops a high performance distributed file system called Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) that can handle billions of files in on-premises and cloud environments. “Customers across North America ...

The average random write latency of PolarFS is 1.6 to 4.7 times slower than local Ext4, while that of CephFS is 6.5 to 75 times slower than local Ext4, which means distributed PolarFS almost provides ...

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 ...

Facebook patched a critical WhatsApp vulnerability that would have allowed potential attackers to read files from a user's local file system, on both macOS and Windows platforms.

PeerGFS enables a distributed file system to be created across mixed storage systems that include Windows, NetApp Data ONTAP, DellEMC Isilon/VNX/Unity, Nutanix Files, S3, and Azure Blob, with ...

Vendor global file system offers. CTERA. CTERA works through a combination of Edge, a caching filer, CTERA Drive, an agent for endpoint devices, and VDI for virtual workspaces. The global file ...

Several distributed file systems are used over the cloud because the cloud itself includes large numbers of commodity-grade servers, harnessed to deliver highly scalable and on-demand services.

Open-source local file systems, such as Linux Ext4, XFS, and Btrfs, remain a critical component in the world of modern storage. For example, many recent distributed file systems, such as Google ...

NFS, developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, is a distributed file system protocol that allows a user on a client computer to access files over a network much like local storage is accessed. NFS is ...