Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...