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, ...

As part of the agency’s ongoing modernization efforts, it issued a request for information for a new enterprise file storage system The Internal Revenue Service is looking to modernize its enterprise ...

I ditched Google Drive for my own self-hosted storage - and I wish I'd done it sooner ...

Hate paying for cloud storage, but not ready to invest in a network-attached storage device? Here's how I turned my Raspberry ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cloud storage is the modernization that consumers need. With more pictures, music and overall data dominating the digital storage of our lives ...

While all cloud-based file storage companies invest in protocols to keep your company’s sensitive data safe, the details of these policies may vary. To keep your documents safe, look for providers ...

The approach: S3 Files uses a “stage and commit” model, borrowing the concept from version control systems like Git: changes accumulate on the file system side and are pushed back to S3 as whole ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...