The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop ...

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 ...

“A modern, fast, distributed file system which doesn't require a team of experts to set up” "WekaIO provides the fastest and most reliable distributed file system I have evaluated in my career” ...

Try Qumulo Today Gartner Disclaimers Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, Jeff Vogel, October 1, 2021.

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 is shipping a set of software and hardware that's designed to make multivendor storage-area networks look like local file systems to servers, although the technology initially supports only ...

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 ...