Here at Miami, we have a lot of systems running to keep the campus afloat. With those systems comes data and files that need to be stored. As one can imagine, with a footprint as big as Miami's, that ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

As expected, Apple today announced it has begun shipping Xsan, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per client and per server. Xsan combines ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

Amazon Web Services continues to chip away at the enterprise storage market, with plans for a new service designed to be a nimbler alternative to network attached storage (NAS) appliances. The Amazon ...

Dell has announced a number of updates to its PowerStore storage platform for private cloud, including the introduction of ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Parallel file system storage specialist Panasas, founded ...

File systems, at the broadest of perspectives, have continually evolved functionally and dimensionally over the past several years. Once confined to disk drives and computer software applications that ...

Enterprises continue to be inundated with data that needs to be collected, stored, moved, processed and analyzed, and the view down the road shows no let up. In 2025, there will be 175 zettabytes of ...

It has been a decade since the first version of the Network Data Management Protocol was launched as an effort to solve the problems posed by the backup and recovery of network file servers. Initial ...

CUPERTINO, California—January 4, 2005—Apple® today announced it has begun shipping Xsan™, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at the industry’s most ...