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 ...

IBM today plans to release a distributed file-system technology that it said will provide storage management capabilities across storage-area networks (SAN) with disk arrays and servers from ...

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 ...

Gartner has established a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage due to the rapid growth of unstructured data. Here are the vendors that are leading the way.

“Distributed file systems deployed in the cloud production environment typically have thousands of machines. Within such a scale, failures caused by hardware or software bugs are common. Therefore, a ...

Supported storage systems include S3, Google LLC GCS, Microsoft Corp. Azure Blob Storage, MinIO Inc. object storage, Ceph software-defined storage and the Hadoop Distributed File System. All three ...

When compared to other file systems, OrangeFS provides users with two key benefits: OrangeFS is one of the best performing parallel file systems available. Based on the powerful, modular PVFS ...

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.

The distributed file system can reach a 6.6 TiB/s aggregate read throughput when used in a 180-node cluster, achieving a 3.66 TiB/min throughput on the GraySort benchmark (in a 25-node cluster).

Hammerspace Standards-Based Software Approach The Hammerspace parallel file system client is an NFS4.2 client built into Linux, leveraging Hammerspace’s contribution of FlexFiles into the Linux ...