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.

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 ...

(1) For replication of files across the Internet, see IPFS. (2) A distributed file system is software that keeps track of files stored across multiple servers or networks. When data are requested ...

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 rapid and unabated growth of so-called "unstructured" data has led research firm Gartner to establish a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. Such systems seek to ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cohesity, a leader in next-gen data management, announced today that it has been named a Visionary in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and ...

To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed distributed file system called PolarFS, which pairs with its own PolarDB database service on its cloud. Cloud ...

Market leaders will typically be able to execute strongly across multiple geographies with products that cover both distributed file systems and object storage offerings. They will also have ...

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.

Storage infrastructure deployments, based on distributed file systems and object storage, are growing faster than ever in both volume and deployment size as the consolidated platform for ...