"One" -- as in "One Microsoft" -- is Microsoft's favorite number these days. Late last week, Microsoft officials announced availability of one of the tools created under 1ES. That tool, known as Git ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.—Avid has unveiled the latest edition of its NEXIS media server family leveraging enterprise class hardware, including faster storage controllers, disks and network connections, for ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

Alluxio Inc., maker of a virtual distributed file system for data science and analytics workloads, Wednesday released a new version that expands its metadata service and enables unified management ...

One of the more surprising stories of the past year was Microsoft’s announcement that it was going to use the Git version control system for Windows development. Microsoft had to modify Git to handle ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...