We have been reporting on high performance file systems for the past few weeks, which quite naturally led us to look at Linux clustering files systems. In the last three weeks, we have gone over high ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

‘With a global file system, you can use the benefits of each cloud’s characteristics. So if you like Amazon Web Services compute, but do analytics on Google and use Microsoft Azure because of the ...

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Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

Minneapolis start-up Sistina has released version 5 of its Global File System software, which helps spread data across several computers' storage systems. The software, which competes with products ...