Salem, Mass.-based WebFS says it has designed a universal file system — called Internet File System — that lets users share Network File System (NFS) files and Microsoft Corp.’s Common ...

Network Appliance’s acquisition of Spinnaker is the precursor to the mainstream adoption of distributed file systems in 2004 and 2005 as an alternative to single-file system architectures.At ...

Distributed File System ... Migrate legacy DFS shares to DFSN and DFSR technologies as Windows Server 2008 R2 begins to phase out legacy DFS and FRS. Both will eventually go away.

OceanStor 9000 is a scale-out distributed file system product providing shared storage for unstructured data. OceanStor 9000 provides file services via NFS and CIFS shares, and object storage ...

Nasuni’s File Data Platform tackles escalating demand for robust protection of distributed file share data, which has emerged as an enticing target for cyberattacks.

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

The TotalStorage SAN File System offering is based on IBM’s Storage Tank virtualization software, and it works by creating a file-sharing protocol that lets servers use a distributed storage ...

An Ars Technica article has revealed details of the systems used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo to store huge amounts of data.