If you've been working with networks for any length of time, you've no doubt had a server's hard disk fill up, which usually means it's time to have users clear out files they no longer use. You can ...

Hey, I'm not exactly sure if this is the right place to put this, but since there is no 'filesystem' forum, maybe it fits here. (otherwise please suggest a place) I was just evaluating my future ...

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

(1) For replication of files across the Internet, see IPFS. (2) A distributed file system is software that keeps track of files stored across multiple servers or networks. When data are requested, a ...

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 first ...

IBM today plans to release a distributed file-system technology that it said will provide storage management capabilities across storage-area networks (SAN) with disk arrays and servers from multiple ...

OK, I have a nice little 300Mhz machine running Win2k AS acting as a NAT firewall. I'm not using ICS, I'm using the real NAT functions. I want to be able to allow people to access a share on a machine ...

A new Windows NTLM relay attack called DFSCoerce has been discovered that uses MS-DFSNM, Microsoft's Distributed File System, to completely take over a Windows domain.

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

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 ...

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, ...