Metadata performance in distributed file systems (DFS) is critical, due to the following trends: (a) the growing size of modern storage systems is expected to exceed billions of files and most files ...

Recent industry trends point to the increasing need for distributed file systems. Customers traditionally have had to grapple with islands of storage that limit the storage administrators ...

Abstract: Reliability and security are properties which are required by any computing system. This paper will describe modern trends in distributed file systems (DFS) oriented on reliability and ...

Distributed file systems allow a collection of nodes to share persistent, named data. These lectures will examine fundamental challenges of distributed computing such as consistency, availability, and ...

Several distributed file systems are used over the cloud because the cloud itself includes large numbers of commodity-grade servers, harnessed to deliver highly scalable and on-demand services.

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source solutions, is offering a technology preview of Red Hat Gluster Storage with capabilities from the OpenStack community's new Manila project. The Red ...

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.

Distributed file systems allow a collection of nodes to share persistent, named data. These lectures examine fundamental challenges of distributed computing such as consistency, availability, and ...