There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed ...

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The rapid and unabated growth of so-called "unstructured" data has led research firm Gartner to establish a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. Such systems seek to ...

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 ...

BOSTON - At the Linux Foundation's new Vault show, it's all about file systems and storage. You might think that there's nothing new to say about either topic, but you'd be wrong. To deal with this, ...

Writing your own operating system can be anything from a summer hobby project to a full-fledged commercial endeavor taking many years to complete. One might think that with so many operating systems ...

CloudFlare has introduced a new gateway that allows you to easily access content stored on IPFS, or the InterPlanetary File System, through a web browser and without having to install a client. With ...