The precise point of departure in the history of almost anything of significance – of a country, a company or a technology – is usually imperceptible. A new chapter in the continually evolving HPC ...

Bacula Systems, the global leader in high-security, high-performance backup and recovery solutions, today announced native integration with IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), bringing powerful new ...

AWS EFS is a scalable file storage solution for use with Amazon EC2 instances. It's designed to be a simple, elastic, and scalable file system for Linux-based workloads, which can be used with both on ...

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

If this particular segment of the computer age could be named, it might well be called “the age of multi-media.” We’ve long gone past the time of simple text files which might contain mostly text and ...

What makes a “fast computer” fast? Some will say it takes a high-speed CPU and RAM. However, while both of these contribute to the overall speed of workstations and servers, by far the most important ...

Microsoft's exFAT file system is again getting a huge performance boost on Linux. And once more, Sony is at the forefront. More than a decade ago, in 2012, Microsoft released its 64-bit exFAT ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it's working on fixing performance of menus, folders, and search in File Explorer on Windows 11 ...