Network file systems whose files are dispersed across file servers and connect to the file system client application through a particular network protocol are distributed file systems (Fig. 1). In ...

The latest Web technologies can be used to build a secure and distributed file storage system by loading a piece of JavaScript code into users’ Web browsers without them knowing, a researcher ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

Now, a few weeks ago I mentioned the improvements in the Distributed File System (DFS) with Windows Server 2003. Note, though, that it’s the “distributed” part (an application or service ...

October 28, 2022 — SEATTLE — Qumulo, a petabyte-scale data storage company, today announced its position as a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage ...

Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), are primarily designed for large datasets and are often burdened by the metadata overhead when managing vast numbers of small files.