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A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

You're suggesting that an indexing service is the same as a distributed file system? The added benefit of a file system like system would be that it would be much more seamless ...

Through this brainstorming process, a distributed file system emerged by about August 1983 as the best mechanism for enterprise-scale information sharing.

The TCFS is a distributed file system for data storage and authorized distribution, which is based on Xunlei's proprietary distributed technology and millions of shared computing nodes.

IBM today plans to release a distributed file-system technology that it said will provide storage management capabilities across storage-area networks (SAN) with disk arrays and servers from ...

Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

Seattle-based storage software start-up Qumulo has introduced its products to the global stage, having launched operations in the EMEA region. The company develops a high performance distributed file ...

Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System ...