IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached ... interest in global file systems, sometimes also known as distributed file systems.

Understanding NFS (Network File System) 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 ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will ...