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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

JUST CLICKING on an icon for cloud storage services can result in quick and easy data backup services for computer and tablet users. The advancements in cloud-based computer file storage systems in ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private cloud, hybrid and multicloud computing, today announced that it has been named by Gartner, Inc. as a 2021 Gartner Peer ...

EMC has agreed to acquire Rainfinity, a company with a product designed to shield customers from some complexities of storage systems, EMC plans to announce Wednesday. Rainfinity sells a type of ...