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 ...

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Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

Last time, we saw why WAN Optimization won over WAFS. This time we’ll take a look at how distributed replicated file services compared to WAN Optimization as alternatives looking backwards, as well as ...

You may have read something about DFS replication in Server 2008. (DFS stands for Distributed File System or Distributed File Service.) Or perhaps you’ve been using this feature, which (among other ...

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 ...

File management software maker Peer Software plans to launch Linux file server compatibility this summer, along with enhanced artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based file access anomaly ...