In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated ...

Discover how object storage with flat IDs and rich metadata delivers cloud‑scale performance and cheap unstructured data parking compared to traditional file systems for modern workloads. Pixabay, ...

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Once an IT organization makes a commitment to embrace object-based storage, it usually winds up having to deploy a bevy of connectors and gateways ...

Unlike a traditional file system, which resides on a single device and thus requires a volume manager to use more than one device, ZFS is built on top of virtual storage pools called zpools. A pool is ...

S3 Files, a native file system interface on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service offers developers simplicity and CIOs a more unified, cost-efficient data architecture, analysts say. Amazon Web ...

Document management is an important yet time-consuming process — especially if you’re not using an electronic system to help you. A computerized filing system can assist with creating, storing, ...

Administrators like the idea of centrally administering their client workstations. Unfortunately, the physical resources of the client workstation (such as the disk, framebuffer and the like) are ...