If you've been working with networks for any length of time, you've no doubt had a server's hard disk fill up, which usually means it's time to have users clear out files they no longer use. You can ...

"One" -- as in "One Microsoft" -- is Microsoft's favorite number these days. Late last week, Microsoft officials announced availability of one of the tools created under 1ES. That tool, known as Git ...

Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system. The Windows Git repository includes about 3.5 million ...

NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

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 ...

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A new DFSCoerce Windows NTLM relay attack has been discovered that uses MS-DFSNM, Microsoft's Distributed File System, to completely take over a Windows domain. Many organizations utilize Microsoft ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

In context: Microsoft introduced the original version of ReFS in 2012 alongside the enterprise-focused Windows Server 2012. At the time, the company stated that the new file system was intended to ...

Network-attached storage (NAS), or file storage, provides shared storage in which access to data takes place at the level of entire files. NAS is defined by the fact it runs a file system and manages ...