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 ...

AWS makes S3 buckets usable as a file system for the first time. The service supports NFS 4.1+ and automatically synchronizes ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

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Rainfinity sells a type of virtualization product that's meant to ease differences between various types of file-storage systems. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The storage hardware maker will announce a new file storage system falling into the midrange of the company's Snap line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...