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 ...

Today’s enterprises are dealing with vast amounts of data located in disparate storage systems. As enterprises adopt artificial intelligence (AI), data silos exacerbate the challenge of AI training, ...

Data warehouse systems have been at the center of many big data initiatives going as far back as the 1980s. Today companies from leading cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (Redshift) and ...

Data is by its nature a messy beast, and it has only become more so as workloads have found their way out of the datacenter and into the cloud and even all the way out to the edge. This is the problem ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

When tech giants like Netflix and Intuit adopted the data mesh architecture, it looked like the next big thing. A few short years later, disillusionment has set in, with companies turning their backs ...