Computer Weekly

Five key points on file locking vs object locking

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) ...
Computer Weekly

Unified file and object storage: Three suppliers and their approaches

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...
CRN

Dell, IBM, Qumulo Lead Gartner’s File And Object Storage Magic Quadrant

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...
insideHPC

MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects

In this video from the Storage Developer Conference, Gary Grider from LANL presents: MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage. “Many computing sites need ...
Ars Technica

Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system

Though the feature wasn’t mentioned in Apple’s WWDC 2016 keynote, I’m most excited about the introduction of the Apple File System, or APFS. The preliminary version of the developer documentation is ...