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 ...

Editor’s Note: You may have noticed that we changed the name of this newsletter from “Windows Networking” to “Windows Networking Tips.” It’s a small change, but we feel it helps describe the kind of ...

August 21, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Cloud Comments Off on Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance There is much value in separating storage from compute, ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...