One of the temptations of IT companies that skate on the cutting edge is that they get enamored with their own inventions, forgetting that customers are a lot more interested in practical solutions ...

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 multiple ...

File systems have never been the flashiest segment of the IT space, which might explain why big shakeups and new entrants into the market don’t draw the attention they could. Established vendors have ...

NERSC recently unveiled their new Community File System (CFS), a long-term data storage tier developed in collaboration with IBM that is optimized for capacity and manageability. The CFS replaces ...

SAN JOSE, Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) has announced a new StorNext architecture and line of StorNext appliances that simplify how organizations manage, store and protect their video content, ...

Although it didn’t make the keynote cut, one of the bigger news items for developers today is that Apple is rolling out a new file system for storage for all its products: The Apple File System (APFS) ...

Document management is an important yet time-consuming process — especially if you’re not using an electronic system to help you. A computerized filing system can assist with creating, storing, ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...