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) ...

The emergence of object storage as a viable means of data retention upsets the existing methods – closely connected – of file and block storage, also known as NAS and SAN. This article will recap the ...

First off, I really don't understand streams. There's the Stream stream, and the MemoryStream stream, FileStream stream and probably a lot more. I understand how they are useful, but cannot really ...