The downside is that disk-as-disk might require more configuration and management chores associated with the disk-based file systems.

Using Amazon S3 cloud storage is easier due to four file system services and software from SubCloud, Jungle Disk, Elastic Drive and PersistanFS.

System-level recoveries are done by restoring volumes rather than individual files. The company claims that its product works with other vendor’s snapshot backup packages.

In an effort to reduce management burdens for customers, Quantum Corp. has introduced a new disk-based storage system that appears to software as a tape library.The Quantum DX30 disk-based back-up ...

Defraggler is a free Disk defragmentation software which lets you quickly defrag the individual files you want to, without having to process the whole drive.

The ExaGrid system works alongside Gardner Trucking’s existing backup application, Symantec Backup Exec, and also backs up the company’s VMware server images. ExaGrid says its disk-based ...

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview lets users attach and mount a physical disk inside their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) distribution of choice. The new feature is available in Windows ...

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Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and ...

City of Aurora, CO Replaces Tape Backups with Disk-based ExaGrid System; Data Restores Reduced from Days to Minutes ...