The tree-like file system hierarchy can handle millions of files quite easily, but once you scale to billions, it can start to slow up. Massive scalability Object storage brings massive scalability.

We look at file vs object storage locking mechanisms, how different forms of storage ensure data consistency, and especially how object storage is tackling the challenge.

Customers currently are ramping up their investments in distributed file systems and object storage as they chase the growth of unstructured data, which is increasingly 30% annually, Gartner says.

Gary Grider from LANL presented this talk at the Storage Developer Conference. "MarFS is a Near-POSIX File System using cloud storage for data and many POSIX file systems for metadata. Extreme HPC ...

If this belongs in the Software Forum let me know and I'll move the post...Is there a way to disable the File System Object component for specific web sites but allow it for others? I suspect not ...

LinkedIn today announced that it has open-sourced Ambry, a piece of software it built to store and serve up media files like photos, videos, and PDFs. The system is available on GitHub under an ...

With a 3D printer, someone can download a computer file, called a computer-aided design (CAD) file, that instructs the printer to make a physical, three-dimensional object.