In this post, we'll apply security technologies for stored data. It's helpful to remember that we can't depend upon underlying infrastructure to secure data in the cloud, so we are focused on applying ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

An explicit lock provides the needed protection. Before the first DATA step, execute a LOCK statement to acquire exclusive access to the file. If exclusive access cannot be obtained, the LOCK ...

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 ...