Designing distributed file systems that maintain POSIX-compatibility is a challenging task, often requiring tradeoffs to be made. GFS introduced a decoupled architecture comprising a master, ...

In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We talk about how storage has shifted to hybrid and multicloud modes ...

Version 1.0.0 of CubeFS was released as open-source in March 2019. It entered the CNCF Sandbox in December 2019, moved to the Incubator in 2022, and graduated as a full CNCF project in January 2025.

Data is distributed. By its very nature, we work with enterprise-level data across different documents, applications, databases and deeper systems; the fact that we can distribute any single piece of ...

AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...

Distributed storage, especially front-of-the-meter batteries, can fill the critical 'missing middle' between bulk storage and customer demand response, increasing grid capacity. Scaling distributed ...

There is a perception among many that blockchain and distributed ledger technology are the same thing. This is not quite the case. This article explains the difference between blockchain and ...