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 ...

“Distributed file systems deployed in the cloud production environment typically ... The latency of PolarFS is about 48µs for 4k random write, which is quite close to the latency of Ext4 on local SSD ...

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.

IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage ... This is driving growing interest in global file systems, sometimes also known as distributed file systems. Global file systems ...

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 ...

PeerGFS enables a distributed file system to be created across mixed storage ... Key use cases are global file-sharing and collaboration, with local caching possible. Deltas are picked up from ...

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 particularly noted for its high performance and ...