You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.

We look at the three basic ways that storage accesses data – via file, block and object – as well as the ways in which the rise of the cloud and distributed systems have brought changes to them.

The good news is Hadoop is one of the most cost-effective ways to store huge amounts of data. You can store all types of structured, semi-structure, and unstructured data within the Hadoop Distributed ...

OrangeFS – A Storage System for Today’s HPC Environment. OrangeFS is a user-friendly, parallel file system designed specifically for today and tomorrow’s high performance compute and storage clusters.

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 ...

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 ...

They settled on using the open source Kosmos Distributed File System (kosmosfs), but didn’t feel that it as production ready. So they hired Sriram Rao, the lead architect of kosmosfs, to work on ...

Researcher builds botnet-powered distributed file storage system using JavaScript. News. Aug 5, 2013 4 mins. Data and Information Security Encryption Internet.