File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

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It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

Cloud-native integration platform examples are built for modern cloud setups. They use things like microservices and APIs to make connections that can grow as your needs change, and they can work ...