As expected, Apple today announced it has begun shipping Xsan, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per client and per server. Xsan combines ...

Business critical and network-attached storage (NAS) are terms rarely seen together. Storage area network (SAN)-based storage built on Fibre Channel infrastructure has dominated enterprise datacentres ...

The precise point of departure in the history of almost anything of significance – of a country, a company or a technology – is usually imperceptible. A new chapter in the continually evolving HPC ...

The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including network ...

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, ...

What makes a “fast computer” fast? Some will say it takes a high-speed CPU and RAM. However, while both of these contribute to the overall speed of workstations and servers, by far the most important ...

Linux kernel version 2.6.30 has been released, adding support for new file systems, performance improvements, and new hardware drivers. The Linux kernel is the core used by GNU/Linux operating system ...

Although it didn’t make the keynote cut, one of the bigger news items for developers today is that Apple is rolling out a new file system for storage for all its products: The Apple File System (APFS) ...

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 ...