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 ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Network Appliance’s acquisition of Spinnaker is the precursor to the mainstream adoption of distributed file systems in 2004 and 2005 as an alternative to single-file system architectures. At first ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Cloud file services offer access to file data and the flexibility of hosted cloud storage infrastructure, with the number of suppliers offering cloud-based file storage growing significantly over the ...

Qumulo was born at a time of change. When the company was founded seven years ago, enterprises were still running most of their business on premises, but the cloud was out there now and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cohesity, a leader in next-gen data management, today announced it was named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System 2022 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qumulo, the leader in data storage and management at scale, today announced it has been named as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System ...